Intentionality, Cognition, and Mental Representation in Medieval Philosophy
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Intentionality, Cognition, and Mental Representation in Medieval Philosophy

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Intentionality, Cognition, and Mental Representation in Medieval Philosophy

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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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction: Intentionality, Cognition, and Mental Representation in Medieval Philosophy
  7. Concepts and Meaning in Medieval Philosophy
  8. Mental Language in Aquinas?
  9. Causality and Cognition: An Interpretation of Henry of Ghent’s Quodlibet V, q. 14
  10. Two Models of Thinking: Thomas Aquinas and John Duns Scotus on Occurrent Thoughts
  11. Thinking About Things: Singular Thought in the Middle Ages
  12. Singular Terms and Vague Concepts in Late Medieval Mental Language Theory: Or, the Decline and Fall of Mental Language
  13. Act, Species, and Appearance: Peter Auriol on Intellectual Cognition and Consciousness
  14. Ockham’s Externalism
  15. Was Adam Wodeham an Internalist or an Externalist?
  16. How Chatton Changed Ockham’s Mind: William Ockham and Walter Chatton on Objects and Acts of Judgment
  17. The Nature of Intentional Objects in Nicholas of Autrecourt’s Theory of Knowledge
  18. On the Several Senses of “Intentio” in Buridan
  19. Mental Representation in Animals and Humans: Some Late Medieval Discussions
  20. The Intersubjective Sameness of Mental Concepts in Late Scholastic Thought
  21. Mental Representations and Concepts in Medieval Philosophy
  22. Bibliography
  23. List of Contributors
  24. Index
  25. Medieval Philosophy: Texts and Studies