Forms of Representation in the Aristotelian Tradition. Volume Three: Concept Formation

Christina Thomsen Thörnqvist (Ph.D. 2001) is Professor of Latin at the University of Gothenburg. She has published extensively on the Latin reception of Aristotle’s syllogistic theory and more recently also on the medieval reception of Aristotle’s Parva naturalia. Juhana Toivanen (DSocSc 2009) is an Academy Research Fellow at the University of Jyväskylä. He has published widely on medieval philosophical pscyhology and political philosophy, including monographs Perception and the Internal Senses (2013) and The Political Animal in Medieval Philosophy (2021).

Preface

 Christina Thomsen Thörnqvist and Juhana Toivanen



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Introduction: Cognition and Conceptualisation in the Aristotelian Tradition

 Sten Ebbesen and Pavel Gregoric



1 Aristotle’s Light Analogy in the Greek Tradition

 Börje Bydén



2 Introducing the Maʿānī

 David Bennett



3 Avicenna on the Semantics of Maʿnā

 Seyed N. Mousavian



4 Avicenna on Talking about Nothing

 Seyed N. Mousavian



5 Abstraction and Intellection of Essences in the Latin Tradition

 Ana María Mora-Márquez



6 John of Jandun on How to Understand Many Things at the Same Time

 Michael Stenskjær Christensen



7 Concept Empiricisms, Ancient and Modern

 Alexander Greenberg



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Index