Representation and scepticism from Aquinas to Decartes
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 i...
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Cambridge University Press
2017
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Table of Contents:
- Through species to the world: Aquinas and Henry of Ghent
- Perception without intermediaries: Olivi's Critique of species
- Direct realism about perception and beyond: Auriol and Ockham
- Transformations of Cartesianism: Malebranche and Arnauld
- Ideas and objects in Desgabets's radical Cartesianism
- The solid philosophy of John Sergeant
- From representation to object
- Criteriological problems