2 options
Intentionality, cognition, and mental representation in medieval philosophy / edited by Gyula Klima.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Medieval philosophy.
- Medieval philosophy : texts and studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy, Medieval.
- Intentionality (Philosophy).
- Cognition.
- Representation (Philosophy).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (374 p.)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- It is commonly supposed that certain elements of medieval philosophy are uncharacteristically preserved in modern philosophical thought through the idea that mental phenomena are distinguished from physical phenomena by their intentionality, their intrinsic directedness toward some object. The many exceptions to this presumption, however, threaten its viability. This volume explores the intricacies and varieties of the conceptual relationships medieval thinkers developed among intentionality, cognition, and mental representation. Ranging from Aquinas, Scotus, Ockham, and Buridan through less-familiar writers, the collection sheds new light on the various strands that run between medieval and modern thought and bring us to a number of fundamental questions in the philosophy of mind as it is conceived today.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- contents
- acknowledgments
- Introduction. Intentionality, Cognition, and Mental Representation in Medieval Philosophy
- 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
- bibliography
- contributors
- index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8232-6658-3
- 0-8232-6277-4
- 0-8232-6419-X
- OCLC:
- 899007383
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.