Ockham on Concepts

by Claude Panaccio

Overview

William of Ockham (c.1287-1347) is known to be one of the major figures of the late Middle Ages. The scope and significance of his doctrine of human thought, however, has been a controversial issue among scholars in the last decade, and this book presents a full discussion of recent developments. Claude Panaccio proposes a richly documented and entirely original reinterpretation of Ockham's theory of concepts as a coherent blend of representationalism, conceptual atomism, and non reductionist nominalism, stressing in the process its special interest for current discussions in philosophy of mind and cognitive sciences.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780754632283
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/28/2004
Series:	Ashgate Studies in Medieval Philosophy
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	210
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Claude Panaccio is a Professor at the University of Quebec at Three Rivers, Canada.

Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction; Intuition, abstraction, and mental language; Intellectual acts; Concepts as signs; Connotative terms in mental language; The role of nominal definitions; Cognition and connotation; Concepts as similitudes; Logical concepts; The Meaning of words; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Editorial Reviews

PRIZE: Winner of the Canadian Philosophical Association's 2007 Book Prize

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