Forms of Representation in the Aristotelian Tradition. Volume Three: Concept Formation

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-50610-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 163, 310 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 666 g

Reihe: Philosophia Antiqua

The trilogy Forms of Representation in the Aristotelian Tradition investigates how Aristotle and his ancient and medieval successors understood the relation between the external world and the human mind. It gives an equal footing to the three most influential linguistic traditions – Greek, Latin, and Arabic – and offers insightful interpretations of historical theories of perception, dreaming, and thinking. This final volume focuses on intellectual operations and analyses some of the most exciting issues pertaining to the conceptual representation of the external world. The contributions cover the historical traditions and their impact on contemporary philosophy of mind.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Thomsen Thörnqvist, Christina

Toivanen, Juhana

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Christina Thomsen Thörnqvist and Juhana Toivanen

Abbreviations

Introduction: Cognition and Conceptualisation in the Aristotelian Tradition

Sten Ebbesen and Pavel Gregoric

1 Aristotle’s Light Analogy in the Greek Tradition

Börje Bydén

2 Introducing the Ma'ani

David Bennett

3 Avicenna on the Semantics of Ma'na

Seyed N. Mousavian

4 Avicenna on Talking about Nothing

Seyed N. Mousavian

5 Abstraction and Intellection of Essences in the Latin Tradition

Ana María Mora-Márquez

6 John of Jandun on How to Understand Many Things at the Same Time

Michael Stenskjær Christensen

7 Concept Empiricisms, Ancient and Modern

Alexander Greenberg

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Christina Thomsen Thörnqvist (Ph.D. 2001) is Professor of Latin at the University of Gothenburg. She has published extensively on the Latin reception of Aristotle’s syllogistic theory and more recently also on the medieval reception of Aristotle’s Parva naturalia.

Juhana Toivanen (DSocSc 2009) is an Academy Research Fellow at the University of Jyväskylä. He has published widely on medieval philosophical pscyhology and political philosophy, including monographs Perception and the Internal Senses (2013) and The Political Animal in Medieval Philosophy (2021).