Bøger i Ashgate Studies in Medieval Philosophy serien

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.

Explores issues in medieval philosophy from the time nominalists and other schools competed in twelfth-century Paris to the mature scholasticism of Boethius of Dacia, Radulphus Brito and other 'modist' thinkers of the late thirteenth century and, finally, the nominalism of John Buridan in the fourteenth century.

Explores issues of relevance to the history of logic and semantics, and in particular connections and/or differences between Greek and Latin theory and scholarly procedures, with emphasis on late antiquity and the Middle Ages.

The problems of divine foreknowledge and future contingents can be put rather simply: how can God know the future without this entailing that the future come about necessarily? Chris Schabel's study dwells and expands upon this conundrum.

Traces the historical roots of the cognitive sciences and examines pre-modern conceptualizations of the mind as presented in the tradition of commentaries on Aristotle's De anima from 1200 until 1650. This book explores medieval and Renaissance views on questions regarding the identity and nature of the mind and its relation to the material world.