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Vision and certitude in the age of Ockham : optics, epistemology, and the foundations of semantics, 1250-1345 /
When William of Ockham lectured on Lombard's Sentences in 1317-1319, he articulated a new theory of knowledge. Its reception by fourteenth-century scholars was, however, largely negative, for it conflicted with technical accounts of vision and with their interprations of Duns Scotus. This study...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; New York :
E.J. Brill,
1988.
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| Colección: | Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters ;
Bd. 22. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | When William of Ockham lectured on Lombard's Sentences in 1317-1319, he articulated a new theory of knowledge. Its reception by fourteenth-century scholars was, however, largely negative, for it conflicted with technical accounts of vision and with their interprations of Duns Scotus. This study begins with Roger Bacon, a major source for later scholastics' efforts to tie a complex of semantic and optical explanations together into an account of concept formation, truth and the acquisition of certitude. After considering the challenges of Peter Olivi and Henry of Ghent, Part I concludes with a discussion of Scotus's epistemology. Part II explores the alternative theories of Peter Aureol and William of Ockham. Part III traces the impact of Scotus, and then of Aureol, on Oxford thought in the years of Ockham's early audience, culminating with the views of Adam Wodeham. Part IV concerns Aureol's intellectual legacy at Paris, the introduction of Wodeham's thought there, and Autrecourt's controversies. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxii, 428 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 384-402) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 0585235864 9780585235868 9789004451728 9004451722 9789004085527 9004085521 |