José Filipe Silva

Research Group: HPhil

José Filipe Silva é Professor Catedrático de Filosofia Medieval na Universidade de Helsínquia (Finlândia). Doutorado em Filosofia Medieval pela Universidade do Porto (2009), investigador pós-doutoral na Universidade de Jyväskylä (2009-2011), Fellow do Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (2011-2014), director do projecto Rationality in Perception: Transformations of Mind and Cognition 1250-1550 financiado pelo European Research Council (ERC StG 2015-2020) e do projeto Augustinian Natural Philosophy in Oxford and Paris ca. 1277 financiado pelo Research Council of Finland. Serviu como Director do programa de doutoramento em Filosofia, Artes e Sociedade (2017-2019), foi vice Director da Faculdade das Humanidades da Universidade de Helsínquia (2022-2025) e é atualmente responsável pela disciplina de Filosofia Teórica da Universidade de Helsínquia. (Perfil completo, aqui)

E-mail: jose.pereiradasilva@helsinki.fi

Selected Publications

Livros:

Robert Kilwardby on the Human Soul. Plurality of Forms and Censorship in the Thirteenth Century. Leiden: Brill, 2012.

Robert Kilwardby for Oxford University Press, Series Great Medieval Thinkers (July 2020).

Ed. with Mikko Yrjönsuuri, Active Perception in the History of Philosophy. Dordrecht: Springer, 2014.

Ed. with Brian Glenney, The Senses and the History of Philosophy. Routledge 2019.

Ed. with Christina Thomsen-Thörnqvist, special issue of the journal Vivarium 57: 3-4 (2019) on Assimilation and Representation in Medieval Theories of Cognition.

Ed. Rationality in Perception in Medieval Philosophy. Brill, 2023.

Ed. with Ritva Palmén, History of Mind: Studies in the Philosophy of Simo Knuuttila. De Gruyter. 2024.

 

“Augustine on Active Perception”, in Active Perception in the History of Philosophy. Springer 2014, 79-98.

“Perceptiveness”, Proceedings of The Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume XCI (2017), 43-61.

(with Juhana Toivanen) “Perceptual Errors in Late Medieval Philosophy”, in Senses and the History of Philosophy. Routledge 2019, 106-30.

“The Chameleonic Mind: Medieval Augustinians on the Activity of Perception”, in E. Baltuta (ed), The Puzzle of Sense Perception. Brill 2020, 38-72.

“John Pecham’s Theory of Natural Cognition: Perception”, in L. Schumacher (ed), Early Thirteenth-Century English Franciscan Thought. De Gruyter 2021, 283-309.

(with Serena Masolini) “The Active Potentiality of Matter ca. 1277: Aristotelian Solutions to an Augustinian Problem”, Medioevo. Rivista di storia della filosofia medievale XLVIII (2023), 79-128.

“Thomas Aquinas on Perception Permeated by Rationality”, in Rationality in Perception in Medieval Philosophy. Brill 2023, 136-60.

“The Unity of Matter”, British Journal for the History of Philosophy (2024), 1-21.