Intentionality, Cognition, and Mental Representation in Medieval Philosophy

by Gyula Klima

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780823262748
Publisher:	Fordham University Press
Publication date:	02/02/2015
Series:	Medieval Philosophy: Texts and Studies
Pages:	374
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.40(h) x 3.90(d)

About the Author

Gyula Klima is Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University.

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 Pickavé
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

Editorial Reviews

...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.

University of Notre Dame - Richard Cross

While the volume is undoubtedly directed primarily to medieval specialists familiar with the figures under study, the essays are written with an eye to accessibility...the contents are of a very high caliber and constitute a major contribution to a vibrant field.

Journal of the History of Philosophy, 54.2 - Carl N. Still

"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

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