The Visual Process: Immediate or Successive? Approaches to the Extramission Postulate in 13th Century Theories of Vision

Augustine is commonly interpreted as endorsing an extramission theory of perception in De quantitate animae. A close examination of the text shows, instead, that he is committed to its rejection. The discussion ends with some remarks about what it takes for an account of perception to be an extramission theory and with a review of the strength of evidence for attributing the extramission theory to Augustine on the basis of his other works.

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Extramisionismo vs. Intramisionismo. Matices de una Controversia Científica

Cardona Suárez,

Gutiérrez Valderrama

2022

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En el artículo se examina la controversia entre extramisionismo e intramisionismo a propósito de la percepción visual. Se defiende que la evaluación del cierre de la controversia depende del explanandum que rastrea el filósofo/historiador en la reconstrucción que persigue. Si enfatizamos en los mecanismos causales, la controversia se cerró en favor del intramisionismo. Si enfatizamos en aspectos asociados con la intencionalidad o con la forma como ciertas afecciones mentales refieren a objetos externos, la controversia conduce a una conciliación entre intramisionismo causal y extramisionismo mental. Finalmente, si ponemos en duda la necesidad de una distinción entre interno/externo, la controversia se disuelve por carecer de sentido.

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The Visual Process: Immediate or Successive? Approaches to the Extramission Postulate in 13th Century Theories of Vision

Abstract: Cf. Kalderon, "Perception and Extramission in De quantitate animae" who stresses that this condition in particular must be fulfilled for a theory to be called "extramissionist".

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Perception and Extramission in De quantitate animae

Extramisionismo vs. Intramisionismo. Matices de una Controversia Científica

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