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Richard Cross provides the first full study of Duns Scotus's theory of cognition, examining his account of the processes involved in cognition, from sensation, through intuition and abstraction, to conceptual thought. Cross places Scotus's thought clearly within the context of 13th-century...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cross, Richard, 1964- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Duns Scotus, John, > approximately 1266-1308.
Duns Scotus, John, > approximately 1266-1308
Cognition.
Philosophy of mind.
Philosophie de l'esprit.
cognition.
PSYCHOLOGY > Cognitive Psychology.
SCIENCE > Cognitive Science.
Cognition
Philosophy of mind
Philosophy & Religion.
Philosophy.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Sensation
  • Intuitive cognition
  • Abstractive cognition (1) : abstraction and concept formation
  • Abstractive cognition (2) : intelligible species
  • The ontology status of cognitive acts
  • The mechanisms of occurrent cognition
  • The soul and its powers
  • Semantic internalism and the grounds of intentionality
  • Mental language and the nature of conceptual content
  • The ontological status of mental content.