Ockham on Concepts

Claude Panaccio (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

210 Seiten

2004
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-7546-3228-3 (ISBN)

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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.

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

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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.12.2004
Reihe/Serie	Ashgate Studies in Medieval Philosophy
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters
ISBN-10	0-7546-3228-8 / 0754632288
ISBN-13	978-0-7546-3228-3 / 9780754632283
Zustand	Neuware