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He bless you, Hi, I'm Peter Adamson, and you're listening to the History of Philosophy podcast, brought to you with support from King's College London and the LMU in Munich.

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Today's episode will be an interview about Duns Skotis with Jojo Pini, who is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University.

Hi Jojo.

Hello Peter.

Thank you for coming on the podcast.

It's a pleasure. We're going to be focusing on

SCODAS's theory of cognition or knowledge and in order to get at what's

special about SCODAS I thought it would be a good idea to first ask you about his predecessors.

Maybe we could focus on Aquinas because Aquinas is famous and also Skodes responds to him quite extensively.

What is the kind of basic idea that Aquinas would have

about how we come to have knowledge

of the world around us through our sense experience.

Yeah, Thomas' idea was that we get knowledge of everyday objects, let's say a giraffe by starting up with sensory properties so for example

color of the giraffe or the smell of the giraffe all things that we can get acquainted with by our senses.

Then we develop that sort of information through our cognitive powers, so our sensory power, our memory, and

finally our mental powers.

What do we get at the end of the story?

Well we get a concept of a giraffe that is for

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