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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.

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Author:   Gyula Klima
Publisher:   Fordham University Press
Imprint:   Fordham University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.703kg
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9780823262748

ISBN 10:   082326274
Pages:   374
Publication Date:   02 February 2015
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Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Intentionality, Cognition and Mental Representation in Medieval Philosophy Gyula Klima Concepts and Meaning in Medieval Philosophy Stephen Read Mental Language in Aquinas? Joshua P. Hochschild Causality and Cognition: An Interpretation of Henry of Ghent's Quodlibet V, q. 14 Martin Pickave Two Models of Thinking: Thomas Aquinas and John Duns Scotus on Occurrent Thoughts Giorgio Pini Thinking About Things: Singular Thought in the Middle Ages Peter King Singular Terms and Vague Concepts in Late Medieval Mental Language Theory or the Decline and Fall of Mental Language Henrik Lagerlund Act, Species, and Appearance: Peter Auriol on Intellectual Cognition and Consciousness Russell L. Friedman Ockham's Externalism Claude Panaccio Was Adam Wodeham an internalist or an externalist? Elizabeth Karger The Nature of Intentional Objects in Nicholas of Autrecourt's Theory of Knowledge Christophe Grellard William Ockham and Walter Chatton on Objects and Acts of Judgment: or, How Chatton Changed Ockham's Mind Susan Brower-Toland 'Intentio' in Buridan John Zupko Mental Representation in Animals and Humans: Some Late-Medieval Discussions Olaf Pluta The Intersubjective Sameness of Mental Concepts in Late Scholastic Thought (and some Aspects of Its Historical Aftermath) Stephan Meier-Oeser Mental Representations and Concepts in Medieval Philosophy Gyula Klima Cumulative Bibliography List of Contributors Index

Reviews

This constitutes a very significant collection of essays on medieval theories of cognition and philosophical psychology. -Richard Cross, University of Notre Dame This constitutes a very significant collection of essays on medieval theories of cognition and philosophical psychology. --Richard Cross, University of Notre Dame ...this rich and stimulating collection will shape future research on medieval theories of intentionality. -Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

This constitutes a very significant collection of essays on medieval theories of cognition and philosophical psychology. --Richard Cross, University of Notre Dame.. .this rich and stimulating collection will shape future research on medieval theories of intentionality. -Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

This constitutes a very significant collection of essays on medieval theories of cognition and philosophical psychology. --Richard Cross, University of Notre Dame

This constitutes a very significant collection of essays on medieval theories of cognition and philosophical psychology. --Richard Cross, University of Notre Dame ...this rich and stimulating collection will shape future research on medieval theories of intentionality. -Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

Author Information

Gyula Klima is professor of philosophy at Fordham University, Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, director of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics, and editor of the society's proceedings. Among his books is John Buridan (2008).

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