Representation and Objects of

Thought in Medieval Philosophy

Edited by

HENRIK LAGERLUND
University afCambridge, UK

ASHGATE
 ASHGATE STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY

Series Editors

John Marenbon, Trinity College, Cambridge, UK

Scott MacDonald, Comell University, USA
Christopher 1. Martin, University ofAuckland, New Zealand
Simo Knuuttila, Academy ofFinland and the University ofHelsinki, Finland

The study of medieval philosophy is flourishing as never before. Historically precise

and philosophically infonned research is opening up this large but still relatively
unknown part of philosophy's past, revealing - in many cases for the first time - the
nature of medieval thinkers' arguments and the significance of their philosophical
achievements. Ashgate Studies in Medieval Philosophy presents some of the best of
this new work, both from established figures and younger scholars. Chronologically,
the series stretches from c.600 to c.1500 and forward to the scholastic philosophers of
sixteenth and early seventeenth century Spain and Portugal. The series encompasses
both the Western Latin tradition, and the Byzantine, Jewish and Islamic traditions.
Authors all share a commitment both to historical accuracy and to careful analysis of
arguments of a kind which makes them comprehensible to modem readers, especially
those with philosophical interests.

Other titles in the series:

Ockham on Concepts
Claude Panaccio
ISBN 0 7546 3228 8

Medieval Modal Systems

Problems and Concepts
Paul Thorn
ISBN 0 7546 0833 6

Theology at Paris, 1316-1345

Peter Auriol and the Problem of Divine
Foreknowledge and Future Contingents
Chris Schabel
ISBN 0 7546 0204 4
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Representation and objects of thought in medieval philosophy. - (Ashgate studies
in medieval philosophy) 1. Philosophy, Medieval2. Representation (Philosophy)
3. Object (Philosophy) I. Lagerlund, Henrik
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Representation and objects of thought in medieval philosophy / edited by Henrik
Lagerlund.
p. cm.-(Ashgate studies in medieval philosophy)
Includes index.
ISBN 0-7546-5126-6 (hardcover: alk. paper)
1. Philosophy, Medieval. 2. Philosophy of mind-History-To 1500. 3. Mental
representation-History-To 1500. I. Lagerlund, Henrik. n. Series.

B738.S68R472006
121' A-dcn
2006008~32

ISBN 978-0-7546-5126-0

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 Contents

List ofContributors vu
Foreword ix

I Introduction
Henrik Lagerlund

II The Terminological and Conceptual Roots of RepresentatiOll in

the Soul in Late Ancient and Medieval Philosophy 11
Henrik Lagerlund

III Abstract Truth in Thomas Aquinas 33

Robert Pasnau

IV Representation in Scholastic Epistemology 63

Martin Tweedale

V Rethinking Representation in the Middle Ages:

A Vade-Mecum to Medieval Theories of Mental Representation 81
Peter King

VI William Ockham and Mental Language 101

Mikko Yrjonsuuri

VII The Matter ofThought 117

Calvin G. Normore

VIII Objective Being in Descartes:

That Which We Know or That By Which We Know? 135
Deborah Brown

Index ofNames 155