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Active Intellect

Active Intellect is a theoretical faculty of the human soul in Aristotelian philosophy that belongs to the class of cognitive principles and is distinguished by its role in illuminating intelligible forms, thereby enabling the passive intellect to actualize potential knowledge.

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48

Authors

15

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Publications per year

2017–2026

2

Variants

Agent Intellect

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Publications

45

Gone primitive: savage intellects, modern lives

Choice Reviews Online · 1991 · 1.2K citations

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Alfarabi, Avicenna, and Averroes on Intellect: Their Cosmologies, Theories of the Active Intellect, and Theories of Human Intellect

Everett K. Rowson, Herbert A. Davidson · The Jewish Quarterly Review · 1996 · 116 citations

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Gersonides' Account of God's Knowledge of Particulars

Norbert M. Samuelson · Journal of the history of philosophy · 1972 · 94 citations

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Plato as "Architect of Science"

Leonid Zhmud · Phronesis · 1998 · 70 citations · Full text

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The Nature of the Human Intellect according to St. Albert the Great

Leonard A. Kennedy · The Modern Schoolman · 1960 · 60 citations

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Authors

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  1. HA
    Herbert A. Davidson

    University of California, Los Angeles, United States

    4 publications · 253 citations

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  2. JP
    John Plotz

    Brandeis University, United States

    1 publications · 14 citations

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  3. HW
    Harald Walach

    University of Northampton, United Kingdom

    1 publications · 15 citations

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  4. AC
    A. C. Lloyd

    University of California, Riverside, United States

    1 publications · 31 citations

    1

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  5. DL
    Deborah L. Black

    University of Toronto, Canada

    1 publications · 24 citations

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Institutions

15

  1. Charles University

    Prague, Czechia

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    14 citations

  2. London Health Sciences Centre

    London, Canada

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    12 citations

  3. Yale University

    New Haven, United States

    1 h-index

    4 publications

    96 citations

  4. University of Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    46 citations

  5. Centre d’histoire de Sciences Po

    Paris, France

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    50 citations

  6. University of Windsor

    Windsor, Canada

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    50 citations

  7. Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences

    Darmstadt, Germany

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    17 citations

  8. KU Leuven

    Leuven, Belgium

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    10 citations

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Venues

  1. Phronesis

    4 publications · 140 citations

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  2. The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review

    4 publications · 68 citations

    4

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  3. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 3 publications · 1.3K citations

    3

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  4. Journal of the history of philosophy

    JHP · 2 publications · 118 citations

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  5. The Classical Quarterly

    2 publications · 24 citations

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