Intentionality, Cognition, and Mental Representation in Medieval Philosophy (Medieval Philosophy: Texts and Studies)

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. 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 Occur Rent 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 -- How Chatton Changed Ockham's Mind: William Ockham And Walter Chatton On Objects And Acts Of Judgment / Susan Brower-toland -- The Nature Of Intentional Objects In Nicholas Of Autrecourt's Theory Of Knowledge / Christophe Grellard -- On The Several Senses Of 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 / Stephan Meier-oeser -- Mental Representations And Concepts In Medieval Philosophy / Gyula Klima. Edited By Gyula Klima. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. The essays in this volume explore the intricacies and varieties of the conceptual relationships among intentionality, cognition, and mental representation as conceived by some of the greatest mediaeval philosophers, including Aquinas, Scotus, Ockham, and Buridan, as well as some of their lesser-known but still influential contemporaries. The clarification of these conceptual connections sheds new light not only on the intriguing historical relationships between mediaeval and modern thought on these issues, but also on some fundamental questions in the philosophy of mind as it is conceived today The essays of this volume explore the conceptual relationships among intentionality, cognition and mental representation as conceived by some of the greatest medieval philosophers, including Aquinas, Scotus, Ockham and Buridan, and some of their lesser known, but in their own time equally influential contemporaries. 9780823264193-1 1 9780823264193-4 1 9780823264193-5 1 9780823264193-6 1 9780823264193-8 1 9780823264193-9 1 9780823264193-11 1 9780823264193-12 1 9780823264193-13 1 9780823264193-14 1 9780823264193-15 1 9780823264193-17 1 9780823264193-18 1 9780823264193-19 1 9780823264193-20 1 9780823264193-22 1