Han Thomas Adriaenssen

Representation and Scepticism from Aquinas to Descartes

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Produktbeschreibung

The first comparative study of the sceptical reception of representationalism in medieval and early modern thought.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 287
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781316632772
• ISBN-10: 1316632776
• Artikelnr.: 54847108

Autorenporträt

Han Thomas Adriaenssen is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands. He has published a number of journal articles on medieval and early modern philosophy.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. The Veil of Species: 1. Through species to the world. Aquinas and Henry of Ghent
2. Perception without intermediaries. Olivi's critique of species
3. Direct realism about perception and beyond. Auriol and Ockham
Part II. The Veil of Cartesian Ideas: 4. Transformations of Cartesianism. Malebranche and Arnauld
5. Ideas and objects in Desgabets's radical Cartesianism
6. The solid philosophy of John Sergeant
Part III. Representations and Scepticism: 7. From representation to object
8. Criteriological problems
Conclusion.