Duns Scotus's theory of cognition / Richard Cross.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cross, Richard, 1964- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Duns Scotus, John, approximately 1266-1308.

Duns Scotus, John.

Cognition.

Philosophy of mind.

Physical Description:

xiv, 224 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Theory of cognition

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Contents:

1 Sensation 18

1 The Object of Perception 18

2 The Mechanisms of Sensation 22

3 The Necessity for Species 27

4 The Materiality and Intentionality of Sensation 32

5 Externalism and the Specification of Sensation Types 39

6 Phenomenal Consciousness 40

2 Intuitive Cognition 43

1 Intuitive and Abstractive Cognition, and their Objects 43

2 Intuitive Cognition of Extramental Material Objects 45

3 Introspection and the Objects of Self-Knowledge 52

4 Two Kinds of Consciousness 57

5 Introspection and Intellectual Memory 59

3 Abstractive Cognition (1): Abstraction and Concept Formation 64

1 Abstraction and Universals 64

2 Abstraction and Conceptual Analysis 69

3 Abstractive Cognition of Singulars and Substance-Kinds 74

4 Inductive and Deductive Reasoning 78

4 Abstractive Cognition (2): Intelligible Species 81

1 Interaction between the Material and the Immaterial 82

2 Phantasms and Intelligible Species: Against Henry of Ghent (1) 84

3 Species and Habits: Against Henry of Ghent (2) 90

4 Phantasms and Abstractive Cognition 95

5 The Causal Function and Ontological Status of Intelligible Species 99

5 The Ontological Status of Cognitive Acts 102

1 Quality: (1) Thomas of Sutton 103

2 Action: Thomas Aquinas 107

3 Relation: An Unnamed Opponent (Durand of St Pourcain?) 111

4 Quality: (2) Duns Scolus 117

6 The Mechanisms of Occurrent Cognition 122

1 The Active Mind: Peter Olivi 122

2 The Passive Mind: Godfrey of Fontaines 125

3 The Activity of Mind and Object: Duns Scotus 128

4 Controlling Thought 134

7 The Soul and its Powers 138

1 Kinds of Cognitive Power 138

2 The Nature of Powers 145

8 Semantic Internalism and the Grounds of Intentionality 150

1 Causal Accounts of Intentionality Rejected 151

2 Measur ability and Semantic Content 153

3 Tending and Intentionality 163

4 A Brief Note on Some Earlier Texts 167

5 A Divine Exception: Externalism in God's Knowledge 169

9 Mental Language and the Nature of Conceptual Content 171

1 The Mental Word 171

2 Mental Language 173

10 The Ontological Status of Mental Content 182

1 Preliminaries: esse intelligibile and Mental Content 183

2 Anti-Reductionist Accounts Rejected: Against Henry of Ghent and Richard of Conington 185

3 The Ontological Status oiesse intelligibile: Scotus's Reductionist Account 189

4 Nihil secundum rem 195.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [205]-211) and index.

ISBN:

9780199684885

019968488X

OCLC:

893649146