Therese Cory receives fellowship at the National Humanities Center
What conceptual models shape our thinking about the mind and its activities or experiences? The project is to recover a neglected model of the mind in Thomas Aquinas, according to which knowing is construed in terms of the realization, in the human knower, of a certain kind of being with certain exotic properties. By examining the philosophical implications of this “metaphysics of intellect,” the book will provide new perspective on...