Estimative Power as a Social Sense

Year of publication

2020

Authors

Toivanen, Juhana

Abstract

The estimative power has been widely discussed in modern scholarly literature. This chapter complements the existing picture by analysing medieval Latin views concerning its role as the explanans of the social behaviour of humans and other animals. Although medieval authors rarely focus on this function, the chapter shows that the estimative power plays an important explanatory role both in philosophical psychology and political philosophy.

Organizations and authors

University of Jyväskylä

Toivanen Juhana

Publication type

Publication format

Article

Parent publication type

Compendium

Article type

Audience

Scientific

Peer-reviewed

Peer-Reviewed

MINEDU's publication type classification code

A3 Book section, Chapters in research books

Publication channel information

Journal

Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind

Parent publication name

The Internal Senses in the Aristotelian Tradition

Parent publication editors

Mousavian, Seyed N.; Fink, Jakob Leth

Publisher

Springer International Publishing

Pages

115-136

Publication forum level

Open access

Open access in the publisher’s service

Self-archived

Yes

Other information

Fields of science

Political science; Philosophy; Literature studies

Keywords

[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Publication country

Switzerland

Internationality of the publisher

International

Language

English

International co-publication

Co-publication with a company

DOI

10.1007/978-3-030-33408-6_7

The publication is included in the Ministry of Education and Culture’s Publication data collection

Yes