Cognition

Joseph Owens, C.Ss.R., (d. 2005) was Professor of Philosophy at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto.

• Part 1 Sense Cognition; The Problem of Cognition; The Primary of the External; Cognitional Content; The Cognitive Agent. Part 2 Intellectual Cognition: Abstraction; Judgment and Reasoning; Truth; Assent; The Ground of Certitude; Grounds of Error, Opinion and Belief. Part 3 Organised Knowledge: The Sciences; Philosophies.

"[An] introductory college text for courses in philosophy of knowledge. The author utilizes the traditions of Aristotle and Aquinas to gain insights into the nature of abstraction, truth, the ground of certitude, and other major epistemological concerns." —Philosophy Science"Cognition is a closely reasoned presentation of the main lines of Owens's Thomistic epistemology and a compelling response to its modern and contemporary challengers." —The Canadian Catholic Review