Aquinas on senses, dreams, and phantasies:

the embodied character of human thinking

 

Some interesting web links:

The Powers of the Soul: http://www.aquinasonline.com/Topics/psychic.html

Internal Senses: http://www.aquinasonline.com/Topics/intsense.html

George Klubertanz, The Discoursive Power. Sources and Doctrine of the Vis Cogitativa According to St Thomas Aquinas (1952)

https://books.google.com/books/about/The_discursive_power.html?id=rscYAAAAIAAJ

Jörg Tellkamp, “Vis aestimativa and the vis cogitativa in Thomas Aquinas’s Commentary on the Sentences,” The Thomist 2012

https://www.academia.edu/6286202/Vis_aestimativa_and_vis_cogitativa_in_Thomas_Aquinas_s_Commentary_on_the_Sentences

Dr Daniel DeHaan:

Introduction to the Cogitative Power in Thomas Aquinas:

https://viscogitativa.wordpress.com/2011/06/06/introduction-to-the-cogitative-power-in-thomas-aquinas-part-i/

. . . . , On the Cogitative Power and the Second Operation of the Intellect:

https://viscogitativa.wordpress.com/2012/10/01/on-the-cogitative-power-and-the-second-operation-of-the-intellect/

. . . . , “Linguistic Apprehension as Incidental Sensation in Thomas Aquinas”

https://lirias.kuleuven.be/bitstream/123456789/445704/1/De+Haan.+Linguistic+Apprehension+as+Incidental+Sensation.+ACPA.+2011.pdf

Mark J. Barker:  http://cogitativepower.blogspot.com

Leo White: https://www.academia.edu/5859779/Why_the_Cogitative_Power

Deborah Black, University of Toronto,  “Rational Imagination: Avicenna on the Cogitative Power”

http://individual.utoronto.ca/dlblack/articles/Aviccogitart.pdf

Richard C. Taylor, Marquette University, “Cogitatio, Cogitativus, and Cogitare: Remarks on the Cogitative Power in Averroes,”

http://epublications.marquette.edu/phil_fac/291/

Harry Austryn Wolfson, “The Internal Senses in Latin, Arabic, and Hebrew Philosophic Texts,” The Harvard Theological Review 28.2 (1935) pp. 69-133.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/1508009?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents