Cognitive Psychology in Early Jesuit Scholasticism

DANIEL HEIDER is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Theology, University of South Bohemia (Ceské Budejovice). He is also employed as researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Prague). In his research he focuses on early modern scholastic philosophy, especially on the philosophy of Jesuits headed by Francisco Suárez. His monographic publications, among others, include Suárez a jeho metafyzika. Od pojmu jsoucna pres transcendentální jednotu k druhum transcendentální jednoty (Filosofia, 2011) and Universals in Second Scholasticism. A Comparative Study with Focus on the Theories of Francisco Suárez S.J. (1548–1617), João Poinsot O. P. (1589–1644) and Bartolomeo Mastri da Meldola O.F.M. Conv. (1602–1673)/Bonaventura Belluto O.F.M. Conv. (1600–1676) (Benjamin Publisher, 2014). At present he is writing a book on Suárez’s cognitive psychology.