St. Isidore forum

Sacra Doctrina => Fides et Ratio => Topic started by: Geremia on December 16, 2025, 08:26:11 PM

Title: Magda Arnold, Thomist neuroscientist 🧠
Post by: Geremia on December 16, 2025, 08:26:11 PM
is an excellent 📖 on neuroscience 🧠. Arnold was a Thomist psychologist. Chapters 9 & 10 are congenial to Aristotle's and St. Thomas Aquinas's psychology, which she calls the "perennial philosophy", and to his On Memory and Recollection (https://isidore.co/calibre/#panel=book_details&book_id=10395).

Cornelius, Randolph R. "Magda Arnold's Thomistic Theory of Emotion, the Self-Ideal, and the Moral Dimension of Appraisal (https://isidore.co/misc/Physics%20papers%20and%20books/Zotero/storage/TUNXEJCY/Cornelius%20-%202006%20-%20Magda%20Arnold's%20Thomistic%20theory%20of%20emotion,%20the%20self-ideal,%20and%20the%20moral%20dimension%20of%20appraisal.pdf)." Cognition and Emotion 20, no. 7 (2006): 976–1000. DOI: 10.1080/02699930600616411 (https://doi.org/10.1080/02699930600616411):
QuoteBy summer's end, Arnold reports that she had read Aquinas' De Anima (https://isidore.co/aquinas/DeAnima.htm) and parts of Summa Theologica (presumably, the ''Treatise on Human Acts (https://isidore.co/aquinas/summa/FS.html#TOC07)'', and at least some of the ''Treatise on Man (https://isidore.co/aquinas/summa/FP.html#TOC05)''). ''To this day'', she says of De Anima (https://isidore.co/aquinas/DeAnima.htm), ''I have not found anything to surpass it. It fits modern research findings and makes them intelligible in a way I have found nowhere else'' (Arnold [autobiography], n.d., p. 13).