
Intentionality, Cognition, and Mental Representation in Medieval Philosophy.
Title:
Intentionality, Cognition, and Mental Representation in Medieval Philosophy.
Author:
Klima, Gyula.
ISBN:
9780823264193
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (374 pages)
Series:
Medieval Philosophy: Texts and Studies
Contents:
Front -- Contents -- Introduction -- Concepts and Meaning in Medieval Philosophy -- Mental Language in Aquinas? -- Causality and Cognition -- Two Models of Thinking -- Thinking About Things -- Singular Terms and Vague Concepts in Late Medieval Mental Language Theory -- Act, Species, and Appearance -- Ockham's Externalism -- Was Adam Wodeham an Internalist or an Externalist? -- How Chatton Changed Ockham's Mind -- The Nature of Intentional Objects in Nicholas of Autrecourt's Theory of Knowledge -- On the Several Senses of "Intentio" in Buridan -- Mental Representation in Animals and Humans -- The Intersubjective Sameness of Mental Concepts in Late Scholastic Thought -- Mental Representations and Concepts in Medieval Philosophy.
Abstract:
The essays of this volume explore the conceptual relationships among intentionality, cognition and mental representation as conceived by some of the greatest medieval philosophers, including Aquinas, Scotus, Ockham and Buridan, and some of their lesser known, but in their own time equally influential contemporaries.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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