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In his commnentary on the Sentences (book II, dist. XVII, q. 1), doubtless read at Paris between 1335 and 1337, Thomas de Strasbourg († 1357) contests in a dense and singular fashion the noetic of Averroes and the Averroists. His reading depends at once upon two figures. First, Giles of Rome, who denounces in the theory of the continuatio a feature that makes of the image the second subject-substrate of the intelligible. Second, Durandus of Saint-Pourçain, who with Hervé Nédellec, opposes to the Commentator a novel perspective of the subject applied to man. This paper studies this theoretical production as it bears witness to the dynamism of the quarrel over Averroism and which enlists Thomas of Strasbourg in this long chronicle in which the modern notion of subjectivity is worked out.