Species Intelligibilis: From Perception to Knowledge: 2. Renaissance Controversies, Later Scholasticism, and the Elimination of the Intelligible Speci by Leen Spruit

Species Intelligibilis: From Perception to Knowledge: 2. Renaissance Controversies, Later Scholasticism, and the Elimination of the Intelligible Speci

Brill's Studies in Intellectual History #48

Leen Spruit

590 pages • first pub 1993 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy psychology medium-paced
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Medieval discussions of mental representation were constrained in essential ways by Thomas Aquinas' doctrine of intelligible species. Aquinas' view of a formal mediation of sensible reality in intellectual knowledge was not universally accepted. I...

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