Knowledge, Mental Language, and Free Will (Volume 3: Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics) (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781443833677)

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Knowledge, Mental Language, and Free Will (Volume 3: Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics)

$58.95

Knowledge, Mental Language, and Free Will (Volume 3: Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics)

$58.95
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Gyula Klima
ISBN-10: 1443833673
ISBN-13: 9781443833677
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Language: English
Published: 11/30/2011
Pages: 115
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.80w x 0.70d
By Gyula Klima
By Gyula Klima
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Gyula Klima is Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University, New York, USA; Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences; Founding Member and Director of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics, and Editor of its Proceedings. Professor Klima's most recent book is John Buridan in OUP's Great Medieval Thinkers series.

Alexander W. Hall is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Clayton State University, Georgia, USA; Assistant Director of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics, and Managing Editor of its Proceedings. Hall's recent scholarship includes Natural Theology in the Middle Ages in the Oxford Handbook of Natural Theology (OUP, 2012).

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