naa a22 4500 510789099 CHVBK 20180411083313.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11406-013-9481-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11406-013-9481-y Baltuta Elena "Alexandru Dragomir” Institute for Philosophy, Romanian Society for Phenomenology, Bd. Mihail Kogalniceanu nr. 49, ap. 45, RO-050104, Bucharest, Romania aut Aquinas on Intellectual Cognition: The Case of Intelligible Species [Elektronische Daten] [Elena Baltuta] The paper argues in favour of a direct realist reading of Aquinas's theory of intelligible species, in opposition to the recent representationalist challenges. In order to secure the direct realist reading, the paper follows three steps: a short description of Aquinas's process of cognition, a survey of the direct realist arguments and the analysis of the representationalist interpretation. The final step consists of investigating the representationalist reading as it is suggested by two scholars, Claude Panaccio in Aquinas on Intellectual Representation and Robert Pasnau in Theories of Cognition in the Latter Middle Ages. Thus, the paper can be construed as a reply to these two authors, due to the thorough attention paid to their argumentative trails. With regard to Panaccio's reading the paper focuses on the identity between the intelligible species and the essence of the extra-mental object and argues that Panaccio understands identity in a very narrow sense. Concerning Pasnau's line of reasoning the focus is on the primum cognitum status of the intelligible species, and the main argument is that intelligible species is understood by Aquinas as the quo and not the quod of cognition. As the paper shows, neither one, nor the other interpretation poses a threat to the direct realist reading of Aquinas's intelligible species. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2013 Cognitive and causal role nationallicence Direct realism nationallicence Formal identity nationallicence Intelligible species nationallicence Primum cognitum nationallicence Representationalism nationallicence Thomas Aquinas nationallicence Philosophia Springer Netherlands 41/3(2013-09-01), 589-602 0048-3893 41:3<589 2013 41 11406 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-013-9481-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-013-9481-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Baltuta Elena "Alexandru Dragomir” Institute for Philosophy, Romanian Society for Phenomenology, Bd. Mihail Kogalniceanu nr. 49, ap. 45, RO-050104, Bucharest, Romania aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Philosophia Springer Netherlands 41/3(2013-09-01), 589-602 0048-3893 41:3<589 2013 41 11406 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer