Theories of Cognition in the Later Middle Ages

• Author(s): Robert Pasnau,
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Pages: 330
• ISBN_10: 0521583683
  ISBN_13: 9780521583688
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Philosophy / Epistemology , Philosophy / Movements / Humanism , Philosophy / History & Surveys / Medieval , Psychology / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition , Religion / Christian Theology / General ,

Description:... This book is a major contribution to the history of philosophy in the later medieval period (1250-1350). It focuses on cognitive theory, a subject of intense investigation during these years. In fact many of the issues that dominate philosophy of mind and epistemology today--intentionality, mental representation, skepticism, realism--were hotly debated in the later medieval period. The book offers a careful analysis of these debates, primarily through the work of Thomas Aquinas, Peter John Olivi, and William Ockham.