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The chief aims of Thomas Aquinas on the Immateriality of the Human
InÂtellect are to provide a comprehensive interpretation of
Aquinas’s oft-repeated claim that the human intellect is
immaterial, and to assess his arguments on behalf of this claim.
Adam Wood argues that Aquinas’s claim refers primarily to the
mode in which the human intellect has its act of being. That the
human intellect has an immaterial mode of being, however, crucially
underwrites Aquinas’s additional views that the huÂman soul is
subsistent and incorruptible. To show how it does so, Wood argues
that the human intellect’s immateriality can also be put in terms
of the impossibility of explaining its operations in terms of
coordinaÂtion between bodily parts, states and processes.
Aquinas’s arguments for the human intellect’s immateriality,
therefore, can be understood as attempts to show why intellectual
operations cannot be explained in bodily terms. The book argues
that not all of them succeed in this aim and also proposes,
however, a novel interpretation of Aquinas’s arguÂment based on
human intellect’s universal mode of cognition that may indeed be
sound. Wood concludes by considering the ramifications of
Aquinas’s position on matters pertaining to the afterlife. Thomas
Aquinas on the Immateriality of the Human Intellect represents the
first book-length examination of Aquinas’s claim that the human
intellect is immaterial, and so—given the centrality of this
claim to his thought—should interest any scholars interested in
understanding Thomas. While it focuses throughout on careful
attention to Aquinas’s texts along with the relevant secondary
literature, it also positions Thomas’s thought alongside recent
developments in metaphysics and philosophy of mind. Hence it should
also interest historically-minded metaphysicians interested in
understanding how Thomas’s hylomorÂphism intersects with recent
work in hylomorphic metaphysics, philosÂophers of mind interested
in understanding how Thomas’s philosophÂical psychology relates
to contemporary forms of dualism, physicalism and emergentism, and
philosophers of religion interested in the possiÂbility of the
resurrection.
“More than any other living scholar of medieval philosophy, Gyula
Klima has influenced the way we read and understand philosophical
texts by showing how the questions they ask can be placed in a
modern context without loss or distortion. The key to his
approach is a respect for medieval authors coupled with a
commitment to regarding their texts as a genuine source of insight
on questions in metaphysics, theology, psychology, logic, and the
philosophy of language—as opposed to assimilating what they say
to modern doctrines, or using medieval discussions as a foil for
‘new and improved’ conceptual schemes.â€Â  Jack
Zupko, University of Alberta “Gyula Klima is widely recognized as
one of the world’s leading experts on thirteenth and
fourteenth-century Latin philosophy, with his own, distinctive
analytic approach, which brings out both the similarities and
differences between medieval and contemporary logic and
semantics.â€Â  John Marenbon, Trinity College,
University of Cambridge  “Gyula Klima has been a towering
figure in the field of medieval philosophy for decades. His
influence comprises not only the scholarly results of his work, but
also intense and generous mentorship of students and junior
colleagues. This volume is a perfect reflection of the esteem that
he enjoys around the world, collecting excellent pieces by
established as well as up-and-coming scholars of medieval
philosophy.â€Â  Catarina Dutilh Novaes, Vrije
Universiteit Amsterdam “For four decades now, Gyula Klima has
been setting the standard among medievalists for philosophical
sophistication and historical rigor. This collection of
wide-ranging studies from leading scholars in the field offers a
worthy tribute to that legacy.â€Â  Robert Pasnau,
University of Colorado Boulder Gyula Klima is Professor of
Philosophy at Fordham University, and Senior Research Fellow,
Consultant, and the Director of Institute for the History of Ideas
of the Hungarian Research Institute in Budapest. In 2022,
the President of Hungary awarded him the Knight’s Cross of the
Hungarian Order of Merit, “in recognition of his outstanding
academic career, significant research work and exemplary
leadership.â€Â In this volume, colleagues,
collaborators, and students celebrate Klima’s project
with new essays on Plotinus, Anselm, Aquinas, Buridan,
Ockham and others, exploring specific questions in philosophy
of mind, philosophy of language, metaphysics, and
logic.
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