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published on March 26, 2025
Han Thomas Adriaenssen
https://doi.org/10.5840/acpq2025324299
Peter John Olivi on Natural Intentionality
For Peter John Olivi, intentional directedness can be modelled after the directedness of causal agents upon their patients. This paper articulates in what way Olivi takes intentional and causal directedness to be similar. It argues that his direct-realist theory of representation is motivated, not only by worries about a veil of species, but also by his more general views on the metaphysics of causation and action. While Olivi¡¯s language of powers ¡°reaching out¡± to their objects has sometimes been taken as evidence of a commitment to some variety of the extramission theory of perception, this paper argues that Olivi rejected extramission.