Dominik Perler
Biographic Data
| ID | 459861 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dominik Perler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dominik |
| FAMILY NAME | Perler |
| SIGNATURE | PERLER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | 1Los Angeles University of California |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2478-6621 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Occasionalismus: Theorien der Kausalität im arabisch-islamischen und im europäischen Denken
Suárez on the Will as a Two-Way Power
In his theory of action, Suárez defends a voluntarist position. He claims that we are free agents because our will is a two-way power: it can always accept or reject the action-guiding judgement that is presented by the intellect. But why is the will not obliged to accept this judgement? The paper discusses this question by relating Suárez’s theory of the will to his theory of causation. It first examines his arguments against intellectual determ…
Powers and Abilities in Early Modern Philosophy
"This book explores different accounts of powers and abilities in early modern philosophy. It analyzes powers and abilities as a package, hopefully enabling us to better understand them both and to see similarities as well as dissimilarities. While some prominent early modern accounts of power have been studied in detail, this volume covers lesser-known thinkers and several early modern women philosophers. The volume also investigates early moder…
Ist eine analytische Geistesgeschichte möglich? Vier Thesen
Wie ist es möglich, philosophische Texte analytisch zu erschließen, gleichzeitig aber auch historisch zu kontextualisieren und dadurch analytische Geistesgeschichte zu betreiben? Der Text beantwortet diese Frage, indem er vier Thesen vorstellt. (1) Gemäß der Nominalismus-These müssen einzelne Texte, nicht etwa allgemeine Strömungen oder Ideen, in den Blick genommen werden. (2) Die Relationismus-These besagt, dass diese Texte stets zu anderen Text…
Personne et action: Perspectives Médiévales
Les quatre conférences, présentées entre le 25 mars et le 5 avril 2022 à Paris, reconstruisaient et discutaient des théories de la personne développées au Moyen-Âge tardif. Elles se concentraient sur des modèles élaborés par plusieurs auteurs du xiiie siècle (Thomas d’Aquin, Siger de Brabant, Henri de Gant, Pierre de Jean Olivi) et avaient pour but d’analyser ces modèles d’un point de vue historique aussi bien que systématique. Les questions suiv…
Can We Know Substances? Suárez on a Sceptical Puzzle
It has often been said that the knowability of substances became a problem in the early modern period, when anti‐Aristotelians doubted that we could know anything more than the sensory qualities that are present to us. This article argues that the late scholastic Aristotelian Francisco Suárez was already aware of this sceptical problem. On his view, substances are really (and not just modally) distinct from the perceivable qualities, and therefor…
Suárez on the Unity of Material Substances
Many late medieval Aristotelians assumed that a natural substance has several substantial forms in addition to matter as really distinct parts. This assumption gave rise to a unity problem: why is a substance more than a conglomeration of all these parts? This paper discusses Francisco Suárez’s answer. It first shows that he rejected the idea that there is a plurality of forms, emphasizing instead that each substance has a single form and hence a…
The Alienation Effect in the Historiography of Philosophy
It has often been said that we should enter into a dialogue with thinkers of the past because they discussed the same problems we still have today and presented sophisticated solutions to them. I argue that this ‘dialogue model’ ignores the specific context in which many problems were created and defined. A closer look at various contexts enables us to see that philosophical problems are not as natural as they might seem. When we contextualise th…
The Faculties: A History
It seems quite natural to explain the activities of human and nonhuman animals by referring to their special faculties. But what are faculties? In what sense are they responsible for a wide range of activities? How can they be individuated? How are they interrelated? And why are different types of faculties assigned to different types of living beings? The six chapters in this book discuss these questions, covering a wide period from Plato up to …
Faculties: A History
Partitioning the Soul: Debates from Plato to Leibniz
Does the soul have parts? What kind of parts? And how do all the parts make together a whole? Many ancient, medieval and early modern philosophers discussed these questions, thus providing a mereological analysis of the soul. Their starting point was a simple observation: we tend to describe the soul of human beings by referring to different types of activities (perceiving, imagining, thinking, etc.). Each type of activity seems to be produced by…
Wirkung
Natürlich war Aristoteles der eigentliche Gründer der später ›Peripatos‹ genannten Schule. Diese Bezeichnung und diejenige ihrer Anhänger als ›Peripatetiker‹ kam vermutlich schon während des Scholarchats (Schulleitung) durch Aristoteles' unmittelbaren Nachfolger Theophrast auf, der dann auch im materiellen und juristischen Sinne den Bestand der Schule durch den Erwerb eines Grundstückes auf dem oder in der Nähe des Lykeion in Athen sichern konnte…
Was There a Pyrrhonian Crisis in Early Modern Philosophy? A Critical Notice of Richard H. Popkin
Article Was There a Pyrrhonian Crisis in Early Modern Philosophy? A Critical Notice of Richard H. Popkin was published on June 28, 2004 in the journal Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie (volume 86, issue 2).
The Cambridge Companion to Duns Scotus
Each volume in this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together with a substantial bibliography, and will serve as a reference work for students and non-specialists. One aim of the series is to dispel the intimidation such readers often feel when faced with the work of a difficult and challenging thinker. John Duns Scotus (1265/6–1308) was (along with Aquinas and…
What are Intentional Objects? A Controversy Among Early Scotists
Ancient and Medieval Theories of Intentionality
Theories of Cognition in the Later Middle Ages
Introduction Part I. Fudamentals: 1. Immateriality and Intentionality 2. Intentionality made mysterious 3. Form and representation 4. Passivity and attention Part II. Representations and realism: 5. Are species superfluous? 6. Aquinas and direct realism 7. The veil of the species 8. Word and concept
What Am I Thinking About? John Duns Scotus and Peter Aureol on Intentional Objects
L'A. presente la theorie de la connaissance de Jean Duns Scot et montre qu'elle conduit a une multiplication des entites, ce a quoi ne parvient pas un autre penseur medieval (Aureol) qui introduit l'intentionnalite de la pensee vers l'objet comme modus essendi de cette chose reelle. L'A. compare les deux philosophes en soulignant des problemes qui restent encore ouverts
Late Medieval Ontologies of Facts
L'A. etudie la signification du terme que p dans la theorie de la signification complexe defendue au XIV e siecle par Adam Wodeham et Gregory de Rimini, affirmant qu'une proposition signifie quelque chose qui doit etre exclusivement signifie par la composition des termes d'une proposition, sans reference a quelque proposition mentale de la theorie du complexum; aussi la phrase Socrate est blanc signifie que Socrate est blanc, soulevant le problem…
Duns Scotus on Signification
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Der propositionale Wahrheitsbegriff im 14. Jahrhundert
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Der propositionale Wahrheitsbegriff im 14. Jahrhundert
Duns Scotus on Signification
Page range: 97-120
What Am I Thinking About? John Duns Scotus and Peter Aureol on Intentional Objects
L'A. presente la theorie de la connaissance de Jean Duns Scot et montre qu'elle conduit a une multiplication des entites, ce a quoi ne parvient pas un autre penseur medieval (Aureol) qui introduit l'intentionnalite de la pensee vers l'objet comme modus essendi de cette chose reelle. L'A. compare les deux philosophes en soulignant des problemes qui restent encore ouverts
Late Medieval Ontologies of Facts
L'A. etudie la signification du terme que p dans la theorie de la signification complexe defendue au XIV e siecle par Adam Wodeham et Gregory de Rimini, affirmant qu'une proposition signifie quelque chose qui doit etre exclusivement signifie par la composition des termes d'une proposition, sans reference a quelque proposition mentale de la theorie du complexum; aussi la phrase Socrate est blanc signifie que Socrate est blanc, soulevant le problem…
Theories of Cognition in the Later Middle Ages
Introduction Part I. Fudamentals: 1. Immateriality and Intentionality 2. Intentionality made mysterious 3. Form and representation 4. Passivity and attention Part II. Representations and realism: 5. Are species superfluous? 6. Aquinas and direct realism 7. The veil of the species 8. Word and concept
What are Intentional Objects? A Controversy Among Early Scotists
Ancient and Medieval Theories of Intentionality
The Cambridge Companion to Duns Scotus
Each volume in this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together with a substantial bibliography, and will serve as a reference work for students and non-specialists. One aim of the series is to dispel the intimidation such readers often feel when faced with the work of a difficult and challenging thinker. John Duns Scotus (1265/6–1308) was (along with Aquinas and…
Was There a Pyrrhonian Crisis in Early Modern Philosophy? A Critical Notice of Richard H. Popkin
Article Was There a Pyrrhonian Crisis in Early Modern Philosophy? A Critical Notice of Richard H. Popkin was published on June 28, 2004 in the journal Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie (volume 86, issue 2).
Wirkung
Natürlich war Aristoteles der eigentliche Gründer der später ›Peripatos‹ genannten Schule. Diese Bezeichnung und diejenige ihrer Anhänger als ›Peripatetiker‹ kam vermutlich schon während des Scholarchats (Schulleitung) durch Aristoteles' unmittelbaren Nachfolger Theophrast auf, der dann auch im materiellen und juristischen Sinne den Bestand der Schule durch den Erwerb eines Grundstückes auf dem oder in der Nähe des Lykeion in Athen sichern konnte…
Partitioning the Soul: Debates from Plato to Leibniz
Does the soul have parts? What kind of parts? And how do all the parts make together a whole? Many ancient, medieval and early modern philosophers discussed these questions, thus providing a mereological analysis of the soul. Their starting point was a simple observation: we tend to describe the soul of human beings by referring to different types of activities (perceiving, imagining, thinking, etc.). Each type of activity seems to be produced by…
The Faculties: A History
It seems quite natural to explain the activities of human and nonhuman animals by referring to their special faculties. But what are faculties? In what sense are they responsible for a wide range of activities? How can they be individuated? How are they interrelated? And why are different types of faculties assigned to different types of living beings? The six chapters in this book discuss these questions, covering a wide period from Plato up to …
Faculties: A History
The Alienation Effect in the Historiography of Philosophy
It has often been said that we should enter into a dialogue with thinkers of the past because they discussed the same problems we still have today and presented sophisticated solutions to them. I argue that this ‘dialogue model’ ignores the specific context in which many problems were created and defined. A closer look at various contexts enables us to see that philosophical problems are not as natural as they might seem. When we contextualise th…
Suárez on the Unity of Material Substances
Many late medieval Aristotelians assumed that a natural substance has several substantial forms in addition to matter as really distinct parts. This assumption gave rise to a unity problem: why is a substance more than a conglomeration of all these parts? This paper discusses Francisco Suárez’s answer. It first shows that he rejected the idea that there is a plurality of forms, emphasizing instead that each substance has a single form and hence a…
Can We Know Substances? Suárez on a Sceptical Puzzle
It has often been said that the knowability of substances became a problem in the early modern period, when anti‐Aristotelians doubted that we could know anything more than the sensory qualities that are present to us. This article argues that the late scholastic Aristotelian Francisco Suárez was already aware of this sceptical problem. On his view, substances are really (and not just modally) distinct from the perceivable qualities, and therefor…
Ist eine analytische Geistesgeschichte möglich? Vier Thesen
Wie ist es möglich, philosophische Texte analytisch zu erschließen, gleichzeitig aber auch historisch zu kontextualisieren und dadurch analytische Geistesgeschichte zu betreiben? Der Text beantwortet diese Frage, indem er vier Thesen vorstellt. (1) Gemäß der Nominalismus-These müssen einzelne Texte, nicht etwa allgemeine Strömungen oder Ideen, in den Blick genommen werden. (2) Die Relationismus-These besagt, dass diese Texte stets zu anderen Text…
Personne et action: Perspectives Médiévales
Les quatre conférences, présentées entre le 25 mars et le 5 avril 2022 à Paris, reconstruisaient et discutaient des théories de la personne développées au Moyen-Âge tardif. Elles se concentraient sur des modèles élaborés par plusieurs auteurs du xiiie siècle (Thomas d’Aquin, Siger de Brabant, Henri de Gant, Pierre de Jean Olivi) et avaient pour but d’analyser ces modèles d’un point de vue historique aussi bien que systématique. Les questions suiv…
Powers and Abilities in Early Modern Philosophy
"This book explores different accounts of powers and abilities in early modern philosophy. It analyzes powers and abilities as a package, hopefully enabling us to better understand them both and to see similarities as well as dissimilarities. While some prominent early modern accounts of power have been studied in detail, this volume covers lesser-known thinkers and several early modern women philosophers. The volume also investigates early moder…
Occasionalismus: Theorien der Kausalität im arabisch-islamischen und im europäischen Denken
Suárez on the Will as a Two-Way Power
In his theory of action, Suárez defends a voluntarist position. He claims that we are free agents because our will is a two-way power: it can always accept or reject the action-guiding judgement that is presented by the intellect. But why is the will not obliged to accept this judgement? The paper discusses this question by relating Suárez’s theory of the will to his theory of causation. It first examines his arguments against intellectual determ…
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