Article ID: CBB000932575

The Intellect Naturalized: Roger Bacon on the Existence of Corporeal Species within the Intellect (2009)

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Raizman-Kedar, Yael (Author)


Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period
Volume: 14
Pages: 131--157
Publication date: 2009
Language: English


Publication Date: 2009
Edition Details: Part of special issue: Evidence and Interpretation: Studies on Early Science and Medicine in Honor of John E. Murdoch

In this paper I challenge the claim that Bacon considered the operation of species as limited to the physical and sensory levels and demonstrate that in his view, the very same species issued by physical objects operate within the intellect as well. I argue that in Bacon the concept of illumination plays a secondary role in the acquisition of knowledge, and that he regarded innate knowledge as dispositional and confused. What was left as the main channel through which knowledge is gained were species received through the senses. I argue that according to Bacon these species, representing their agents in essence, definition and operation, arrive in the intellect without undergoing a complete abstraction from matter and while still retaining the character of agents acting naturally. In this way Bacon sets the intellect as separate from the natural world not in any essential way, but rather as it were in degree, thus supplying a theoretical justification for the ability to access and know nature.

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Authors & Contributors
Hackett, Jeremiah M. G.
Raizman-Kedar, Yael
Abate, Mark T.
Benbow, Peter K.
Calvet, Antoine
Crisciani, Chiara
Journals
Micrologus: Nature, Sciences and Medieval Societies
Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
Archiv für Mittelalterliche Philosophie und Kultur
Journal of Medieval Latin
Journal of the History of Philosophy
Micrologus: Natura, Scienze e Società Medievali
Publishers
Akademie-Verlag
B. Kühlen
Bompiani
Boston University
The University of Texas at Dallas
University of Texas at Dallas
Concepts
Philosophy
Natural philosophy
Theories of knowledge
Science and religion
Alchemy
Senses and sensation; perception
People
Bacon, Roger
Aristotle
Albertus Magnus
Duns Scotus, Johannes
Thomas Aquinas, Saint
Bonaventura, Saint
Time Periods
13th century
Medieval
14th century
15th century
Places
Great Britain
Europe
Institutions
Université de Paris
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