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Author | : Han Thomas Adriaenssen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2017-04-13 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1316857948 |
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In this book Han Thomas Adriaenssen offers the first comparative exploration of the sceptical reception of representationalism in medieval and early modern philosophy. Descartes is traditionally credited with inaugurating a new kind of scepticism by saying that the direct objects of perception are images in the mind, not external objects, but Adriaenssen shows that as early as the thirteenth century, critics had already found similar problems in Aquinas's theory of representation. He charts the attempts of philosophers in both periods to grapple with these problems, and shows how in order to address the challenges of scepticism and representation, modern philosophers in the wake of Descartes often breathed new life into old ideas, remoulding them in ways that we are just beginning to understand. His book will be valuable for historians interested in the medieval background to early modern thought, and to medievalists looking at continuity with the early modern period.
Author | : Han Thomas Aaenssen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : PHILOSOPHY |
ISBN | : 9781316861363 |
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The first comparative study of the sceptical reception of representationalism in medieval and early modern thought.
Author | : Han Thomas Adrianssen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Representation (Philosophy) |
ISBN | : 9781316860984 |
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Author | : Han Thomas Adriaenssen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2017-04-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107181623 |
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The first comparative study of the sceptical reception of representationalism in medieval and early modern thought.
Author | : John Carriero |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2016-08-12 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1315474204 |
Download Descartes and the Autonomy of the Human Understanding Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume, originally published in 1990, delineates the transition Descartes effects from a prevalent medieval conception of understanding to a modern conception of it. Through the examination of the continuities and discontinuities between Descartes’ account of the understanding and that of high scholasticism, a characterization emerges of two way in which the understanding is autonomous in Descartes’ view. These two sorts of autonomy shed light on the origin of a set of related concerns that give modern philosophy its coherence, setting it apart from medieval philosophy as a distinct tradition. The first sort – the independence of the understanding of the senses – creates the modern problem of scepticism with regard to the external world. The second sort, concerning the ontological status of the mind, provides the background against which modern discussions of the mind/body problem take shape.
Author | : Henrik Lagerlund |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004170618 |
Download Rethinking the History of Skepticism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book aims at beginning the rewriting of the history of skepticism by highlightening the medieval sources of the modern skeptical discussions. It shows through seven newly written essays how epistemological and external-world skepticism was developed and discussed particularly in the fourteenth century up to sixteenth century Paris.
Author | : Alexander W. Hall |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 90 |
Release | : 2014-08-11 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1443865788 |
Download Skepticism, Causality and Skepticism about Causality (Volume 10 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Skepticism, Causality and Skepticism about Causality studies the interrelated themes of causality and skepticism in contemporary, early modern and medieval philosophy. Thomas Aquinas’s celebrated proofs of the existence of God (the Five Ways of the Summa Theologica) rely in part on an Aristotelian notion of synchronous causality, wherein the things that exist and persist require an accounting that ultimately terminates in the ongoing activity of a first mover, as the existence and persistence of an ecosystem is traceable to the sun. By contrast, in David Hume’s early modern account, causality consists in the regularity of successive events (a rolling billiard ball’s collision with a stationary one is always followed by the movement of the latter). Moreover, Newtonian and Einsteinian accounts respectively suggest that motion, once initiated, requires no explanation. In light of these developments, the first set of essays in this volume re-evaluates the Aristotelian paradigm and its relation to modern science, contending that in some fields (such as ecology, thermodynamics or information theory) contemporary science still preserves some intuitions about causality that support Aquinas’s deliberations. Hume’s skepticism about causality is heir to late medieval and early modern development that transformed not only the notion of causality in general, but also the idea of the causal connections between our cognitive faculties, God, and the world in particular, giving rise to extreme, solipsistic forms of skepticism, such as Descartes’ Demon skepticism. The second set of essays considers whether Aquinas’s thought would be susceptible in some ways to this form of skepticism, and what motivated, just a couple of generations later, the turn to epistemology already involving this sort of skepticism.
Author | : Tarek Dika |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 407 |
Release | : 2023-03-02 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0192869868 |
Download Descartes's Method Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Tarek Dika presents a systematic account of Descartes' method and its efficacy. He develops an ontological interpretation of Descartes's method as a dynamic and, within limits, differentiable problem-solving cognitive disposition or habitus, which can be actualized or applied to different problems in various ways, depending on the nature of the problem. Parts I-II of the book develop the foundations of such an habitual interpretation of Descartes's method, while Parts III-V demonstrate the fruits of such an interpretation in metaphysics, natural philosophy, and mathematics. This is the first book to draw on the recently-discovered Cambridge manuscript of Descartes's Rules for the Direction of the Mind (1620s): it gives a concrete demonstration of the efficacy of Descartes's method in the sciences and of the underlying unity of Descartes's method from Rules for the Direction of the Mind to Principles of Philosophy (1644).
Author | : Donald Rutherford |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2023-02-17 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0192884743 |
Download Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy, Volume XI Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy is an annual series, presenting a selection of the best current work in the history of early modern philosophy. It focuses on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries - the extraordinary period of intellectual flourishing that begins, very roughly, with Descartes and his contemporaries and ends with Kant. It also publishes papers on thinkers or movements outside of that framework, provided they are important in illuminating early modern thought. The articles in OSEMP will be of importance to specialists within the discipline, but the editors also intend that they should appeal to a larger audience of philosophers, intellectual historians, and others who are interested in the development of modern thought.
Author | : Richard Popkin |
Publisher | : Read Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2013-03-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1447489632 |
Download The History Of Scepticism From Erasmus To Descartes Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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