Ockham on Concepts

Zusatztext PRIZE: Winner of the Canadian Philosophical Association's 2007 Book Prize Informationen zum Autor Claude Panaccio is a Professor at the University of Quebec at Three Rivers, Canada. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

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• Authors: Claude Panaccio, Panaccio Claude
• Assisted by: Christopher J. Martin (Editor of the series), Simo Knuuttila (Editor of the series), Scott Macdonald (Editor of the series), John Marenbon (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.12.2004
• EAN: 9780754632283
• ISBN: 978-0-7546-3228-3
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 241 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Ashgate Studies in Medieval Philosophy; Ashgate Studies in Medieval Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Medieval, Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600, Medieval Western philosophy