IMC 2018: Sessions

Session 647: Memory in Late Medieval Faculty Psychology

Tuesday 3 July 2018, 11.15-12.45

Sponsor:	Rationality in Perception: Transformations of Mind & Cognition, 1250-1550, ERC Project
Organiser:	José Filipe Pereira da Silva, Department of Philosophy, History, Culture & Art Studies, University of Helsinki
Moderator/Chair:	José Filipe Pereira da Silva, Department of Philosophy, History, Culture & Art Studies, University of Helsinki
Paper 647-a	Memory in Rational and Non-Rational Animals (Language: English) Annemieke Verboon, Department of Philosophy, University of Helsinki Index terms: Manuscripts and Palaeography, Philosophy
Paper 647-b	Two Types of Memory: Nicholas of Cusa on Remembering the Physical and the Non-Physical (Language: English) Christian Kny, Department of Philosophy, History, Culture & Art Studies, University of Helsinki Index terms: Philosophy, Theology
Paper 647-c	Memory: Power or Function? (Language: English) José Filipe Pereira da Silva, Department of Philosophy, History, Culture & Art Studies, University of Helsinki Index terms: Philosophy, Theology
Abstract	Memory plays an essential role in the way we know the world but its nature is described in a variety of ways. In this session, we explore the kinds of memory found in different philosophical traditions (Aristotelian, Augustinian), whether memory is one function of a faculty or a faculty in its own right, and whether the same operations of memory are found in both rational and non-rational animals. The aim of the session is to examine some of the multiple perspectives under which the power of memory was considered and the attempt by medieval thinkers to offer a systematic account.