358. Of Two Minds: Pomponazzi and Nifo on the Intellect
Pietro Pomponazzi and Agostino Nifo debate the immortality of the soul and the cogency of Averroes’ theory of intellect.
Themes:
• W.H. Hay and J.H. Randall (trans.), Pietro Pomponazzi: On the Immortality of the Soul, in E. Cassirer et al. (eds), The Renaissance Philosophy of Man (Chicago: 1956).
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• A. Akasoy and G. Giglioni (eds), Renaissance Averroism and its Aftermath: Arabic Philosophy in Early Modern Europe (Dordrecht: 2010).
• P.J.J.M. Bakker and J.M.M.H. Thijssen, Mind, Cognition, and Representation: the Tradition of Commentaries on Aristotle’s De Anima (London: 2007) [the papers by Casini and Bakker]
• J. Biard and T. Gontier (eds), Pietro Pomponazzi entre traditions et innovations (Amsterdam: 2009).
• E.P. Mahoney, Two Aristotelians of the Italian Renaissance: Nicoletto Vernia and Agostino Nifo (Aldershot: 2000).
• C. Martin, “Rethinking Renaissance Averroism,” Intellectual History Review 17 (2007), 3-28.
• B. Nardi, Studi su Pietro Pomponazzi (Florence: 1965).
• M.L. Pine, Pietro Pomponazzi: Radical Philosopher of the Renaissance (Padua: 1986).
• J. Sellars, “Pomponazzi Contra Averroes on the Intellect,” British Journal for the History of Philosophy 24 (2016), 45-66.
• M. Sgarbi (ed.), Pietro Pomponazzi: Tradizione e dissenso (Florence: 2010).
• L. Spruit, “The Pomponazzi Affair: the Controversy over the Immortality of the Soul,” in H. Lagerlund and B. Hill, (ed.), Routledge Companion to Sixteenth-Century Philosophy (New York: 2017), 225-46.
Stanford Encyclopedia: Pietro Pomponazzi
Episodes 328 - 370: Italian Renaissance
Comments
Thanks!
Thanks for reminding me of all the conversations I had with the late, great Ed Mahoney about this topic.
In reply to Thanks! by James South
Mahoney
Oh I am jealous, I never met him. Obviously I drew a lot on his work for writing this episode!
Aphantasia
I noticed at around 11:00, you talked about the necessity of of preserving representations of sensory data in the memory, such as look/sound/smell. For people with aphantasia, however, we can't visually recall visual sensory data, or other sensory data (which types varies from person to person, i know at least one person who has no recall of any sense). I doubt we have had any impact on historical models of epistemology, but has there been any recent research on the challenge we pose to traditional or standard models of epistemology?
In reply to Aphantasia by Otterlex
Aphantasia
Hm, interesting. I am sure there has been, but I couldn't tell you about it off the top of my head. Barry Smith (active on Twitter under @smithbarryc) is a specialist in the phenomenology of smell, and I bet he could give you some tips on this.
worries
Hi Peter,
After hearing about your families’ culinary habits I’m very worried that if I keep listening to the podcasts I will be slowly and subtly pulled away from my own culinary habits, shared with Hiawatha, that I was counting on for the salvation of my non universal soul. I may have to change my name to Peter and stop listening.
English literature with specialization on Ramist logic
Loved the podcast. Will there be one on Peter Ramus?
In reply to English literature with specialization on Ramist logic by Niranjan Goswami
Ramus
Yes indeed, he will be covered in the next series on Philosophy in the Reformation which will look at developments in the 15-16th centuries around Europe, outside Italy. I actually already recorded an interview about Ramus as well as planning a normal scripted episode.
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