Medieval perceptual puzzles : theories of sense perception in the 13th and 14th centuries / edited by Elena Băltuță.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Perceiving as: non-conceptual forms of perception in medieval philosophy / Juhana Toivanen -- The chameleonic mind: the activity versus the actuality of perception / José Filipe Silva -- The visual process: immediate or successive? Approaches to the extramission postulate in 13th century theories of vision / Lukáš Lička -- Visio per sillogismum: sensation and cognition in 13th century theories of vision / Mattia Mantovani -- Spirituality and perception in medieval Aristotelian natural philosophy / Rega Wood -- The escape artist: Robert Kilwardby on objects as sine qua non causes / Elena Băltuță -- Rational seeing: Thomas Aquinas on human perception / Dominik Perler -- Aquinas on perceiving, thinking, understanding, and cognizing individuals / Daniel De Haan -- "Accidental perception" and "cogitative power" in Thomas Aquinas and John of Jandun / Paolo Rubini -- Peter John Olivi on perception, attention, and the soul's orientation towards the body / André Martin -- Caesar in bronze: Duns Scotus on the sensation of singular accidents / Andrew LaZella -- John Buridan on the singularity of sense perception / Martin Klein.

"In our daily lives, we are surrounded by all sorts of things - such as trees, cars, persons, or madeleines - and perception allows us access to them. But what does 'to perceive' actually mean? What is it that we perceive? How do we perceive? Do we perceive the same way animals do? Does reason play a role in perception? Such questions occur naturally today. But was it the same in the past, centuries ago? The collected volume tackles this issue by turning to the Latin philosophy of the 13th and 14th centuries. Did medieval thinkers raise the same, or similar, questions as we do with respect to perception? What answers did they provide? What arguments did they make for raising the questions they did, and for the answers they gave to them? The philosophers taken into consideration are, among others, Albert the Great, Roger Bacon, William of Auvergne, Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus, John Pecham, Richard Rufus, Peter Olivi, Robert Kilwardby, John Buridan, and Jean of Jandun"--Back cover.