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Knowledge, Mental Language, and Free Will (Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysic)

✍ Scribed by Alexander W. Hall (editor)


Publisher
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Year
2011
Tongue
English
Leaves
112
Edition
Unabridged
Category
Library

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✦ Synopsis


Knowledge, Mental Language, and Free Will traverses the medieval philosophical landscape of metaphysics, logic and natural philosophy. Alexander W. Hall discusses Thomas Aquinas's interpretation of Aristotle's doctrine of per se predication as it occurs in the conclusion of scientific demonstrations, i.e., of arguments producing scientific knowledge in the strict sense. Henrik Lagerlund and Catarina Dutilh Novaes take up medieval studies of mental language in the writings of Peter of Ailly and William Ockham. Works in this genre seek to discern what concepts are concepts of, the ontological status of concepts as entities, and how concepts stand for and represent things in the world. Lastly, Walter Redmond comments on and translates the prologue to and first chapter of the Mexican Jesuit Father Matias Blanco's (d. 1734) The Three-Stranded Cord [Funiculus triplex], where Blanco treats the antinomy between freedom and determination, modal semantics, tense logic and the logical status of counterfactuals in an attempt to reconcile human freedom with God's causality and omniscience.

✦ Table of Contents


TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
AQUINAS, SCIENTIA AND A MEDIEVAL MISCONSTRUCTION OF ARISTOTLE’S POSTERIOR ANALYTICS
REPRESENTATIONS, CONCEPTS AND WORDS
OCKHAM ON SUPPOSITION AND EQUIVOCATION IN MENTAL LANGUAGE
THE THREE-STRANDED CORD
THE THREE-STRANDED CORD (TR. WALTER REDMOND)
APPENDIX
CONTRIBUTORS


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