The Language of Thought in Late Medieval Philosophy

Renders key topics in fourteenth-century thought accessible to the contemporary philosophical community
Celebrates the work of a leading expert in the field, Claude Panaccio
Brings together contributions in both French and English, the two major research languages today on the main theme in question

Auteur

Jenny Pelletier currently holds a postdoctoral fellowship from Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) at the University of Leuven in medieval philosophy. She received her PhD in December 2010 in Leuven and has held research fellowships in Montreal and Belgium. Her research interests include late medieval philosophy with a particular emphasis on Ockham and his contemporaries in the areas of metaphysics, philosophical theology, and political theory and the related areas of logic and language. Magali Roques currently holds a postdoctoral fellowship from Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) at the University of Hamburg and is an associate researcher at the Laboratoire d'Etudes sur les Monothéismes. She received her PhD in December 2012 from Université François-Rabelais de Tours, and held several postdoctoral positions in Canada, Switzerland, and Germany. Her research interests focus on fourteenth-century philosophy, especially Ockham and his contemporaries. Her work deals with connections between philosophy of language and metaphysics.

Contenu
Part 1. Doing the History of Philosophy.- 1. TBA (Claude Panaccio).- 2. Pourquoi Faire l'Histoire de la Philosophie? (Aurelien Robert).- Part 2. Ockham.- 3. Causation and Externalism (Susan Brower).- 4. Causation, Resemblance, Similitudo (Calvin Normore).- 5. Individuation and Resemblance: Ockham's Doubts about the Intellectio Theory (Peter Hartman).- 6. Ockham on Cognitive Habits (Magali Roques).- 7. Ockham's Voluntarism Reconsidered: Freedom and the Possibility of Irrational Action (Sonja Schierbaum).- 8. Les Syllogismes Modaux Mixtes Chez Ockham (Ernesto Perini-Santos).- Part 3. Ockham and his Contemporaries.- 9. William of Ockham and Peter Auriol on the Argument from Illusion (Martin Pickavé).- 10. Auriol on Universal Concepts (Russ Friedman).- 11. Le Rôle de la Volonté dans l'acte de foi: Durand de Saint-Pourçain, Gauthier Chatton et Guillaume d'Ockham en Discussion (David Piché).- 12. Too Many Terms, Too Few Entities? Chatton's Criticisms of Ockham on Categories (Jenny Pelletier).- 13. Ockham and Buridan on the Syllogism (Catarina Dutilh Novaes).- 14. Thought Transplants and Concept-Identity in Nominalist Cognitive Psychology (Gyula Klima).- Part 4. Sources and Reception.- 15. Logique et Logos (Intérieur et Extérieur) dans la Divisio Scientiarum d'Arnould de Provence: la Lettre et le Sens d'une Citation d'Al-Farabi (Claude Lafleur).- 16. La Révolution Ockhamiste en Sémantique et ses Conséquences sur l'Analyse Logique du Langage (Frédéric Goubier).- 17. Locutio Angelica et Langage Mental (Irène Rosier).- 18. Présentation et Représentation: Aux Origines du Représentationnalisme (Alain de Libera).- 19. Some Sources of Ockham's Rejection of Species Theory (Antoine Côté).- 20. King Psammetichus' Experiment and Medieval Debates about the Naturalness of Language (Sten Ebbesen).- 21. The Science of Psychology in Ockham's Age (Peter King).- 22. The Language of Thought in Buridan (Jack Zupko).- 23. Évidence et Raisons Probables: le Statut de la Science Selon Pierre d'Ailly (Joël Biard).- 24. A Realist Response to Nominalism in the Discussion of Supposition Theory: Cologne masters vs. Johannes Dorp, and the Anonymous Author of a Commentary on Marsilius of Inghen (Jenny Ashworth).

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