The Cambridge Translations of Medieval Philosophical Texts: Volume 3, Mind and Knowledge

Robert Pasnau editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:18th Mar '02

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This volume contains English translations of texts on mind and knowledge at the centre of medieval philosophy.

This is a volume of English translations of major texts that form the debate over mind and knowledge at the center of medieval philosophy. It will be an important resource for scholars and students.The third volume of The Cambridge Translations of Medieval Philosophical Texts will allow scholars and students access in English, to major texts that form the debate over mind and knowledge at the center of medieval philosophy. Beginning with thirteenth-century attempts to classify the soul's powers and to explain the mind's place within the soul, the volume proceeds systematically to consider the scope of human knowledge and the role of divine illumination, intentionality and mental representation, and attempts to identify the object of human knowledge in terms of concepts and propositions. The authors included are Henry of Ghent, Peter John Olivi, William Alnwick, Peter Aureol, William Ockham, William Crathorn, Robert Holcot, Adam Wodeham as well as two anonymous Parisian masters of arts. This volume will be an important resource for scholars and students of medieval philosophy, history, theology and literature.

"All medievalists should applaud the excellent work of Pasnau in providing a fine collection of translations that make late medieval writings on philosophy of mind and epistemology accessible to twenty-first-century students and scholars. This volume offers us all ample evidence of the great strides made by the philosophers and theologians of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries in the development of what we now know as 'cognitive science.'" Philosophy in Review

ISBN: 9780521797955

Dimensions: 229mm x 21mm x 152mm

Weight: 550g

378 pages