Attribution arguments and the metaphysics of immanent actions: cognitive acts from Peter John Olivi to Durand of St. Pourçain
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<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2025.2455427" target="_blank" >10.1080/09608788.2025.2455427</a>
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angličtina
Original language name
Attribution arguments and the metaphysics of immanent actions: cognitive acts from Peter John Olivi to Durand of St. Pourçain
Original language description
In this paper, I survey one of the key arguments used in Latin medieval psychology in favour of active views of cognition, from Peter John Olivi to Durand of St. Pourҁain. In broad terms, these 'attribution arguments', based on some appeal to other causal events or how we speak of them, argue that passive views of cognition have the absurd consequence that they misattribute our cognitive acts to things ultimately external to our intrinsic cognitive powers (viz., external objects or sensible/intelligible species). In the secondary literature, these arguments tend to get overshadowed by arguments with more distinctly Augustinian roots, based on the nobility of cognition or the experience of active attention. However, in this paper I argue that these 'attribution arguments' are distinctly interesting, especially insofar as they speak to hot debates concerning so-called 'immanent acts' and how to read Aristotle on such actions in Metaphysics Θ.
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
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I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Name of the periodical
British Journal for the History of Philosophy
ISSN
0960-8788
e-ISSN
1469-3526
Volume of the periodical
33
Issue of the periodical within the volume
5
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
25
Pages from-to
1045-1069
UT code for WoS article
001432944000001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85218701772