Mental Language : From Plato to William of Ockham.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (302 pages)
- Medieval Philosophy: Texts and Studies .
- Medieval Philosophy: Texts and Studies .
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Editorial Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART I: THE SOURCES -- 1. Plato and Aristotle -- The soul's dialogue with itself -- The locus of logical relations -- The composition of thought -- 2. Logos endiathetos -- A Stoic notion? -- Philo and allegorical exegesis -- From Plutarch to Plotinus -- John Damascene and his sources -- 3. Verbum in corde -- The battle against Gnosis -- The emergence of Latin theology -- Augustine: The development of a doctrine -- 4. Oratio mentalis -- The case of Porphyry -- The testimony of Ammonius -- The commentaries of Boethius -- The passage through Islam -- PART II: THIRTEENTH-CENTURY CONTROVERSIES -- 5. Triple Is the Word -- Anselm's Augustinianism -- The play of triads -- Sermo in mente -- 6. Act versus Idol -- The Thomistic synthesis -- The first criticisms -- Back to the things themselves -- 7. Concept and Sign -- Signs in the intellect -- John Duns Scotus and the question of the significate -- The language of angels -- 8. What Is Logic About? -- Logic, composition, and truth -- Deep structure and logical form -- The subject of the Perihermeneias -- The elements of syllogism -- PART III: THE VIA MODERNA -- 9. Ockham's Intervention -- The object of knowledge -- The ontology of the intelligible -- The semantics of concepts -- Natural signification -- 10. Reactions -- The nature of mental language -- The structure of mental language -- Parisian nominalism -- Conclusion -- Postscript to the English-Language Edition (2014) -- On the ancient and patristic sources -- On Augustine and Boethius -- On Abelard and the twelfth century -- On Aquinas and the thirteenth century -- On Ockham and the late medieval period -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V. W -- Y -- Z.
This book offers a history of the idea that human thought is structured like a language, from Plato and Aristotle up to the fourteenth century when William of Ockham gave it a new importance and developed it in a systematic way.
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Thought and thinking-History. Knowledge, Theory of-History. Concepts. Logic. Language and logic.