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).

• PrefaceChristina Thomsen Thörnqvist and Juhana ToivanenAbbreviationsIntroduction: Cognition and Conceptualisation in the Aristotelian TraditionSten Ebbesen and Pavel Gregoric1 Aristotle’s Light Analogy in the Greek TraditionBörje Bydén2 Introducing the MaʿānīDavid Bennett3 Avicenna on the Semantics of MaʿnāSeyed N. Mousavian4 Avicenna on Talking about NothingSeyed N. Mousavian5 Abstraction and Intellection of Essences in the Latin TraditionAna María Mora-Márquez6 John of Jandun on How to Understand Many Things at the Same TimeMichael Stenskjær Christensen7 Concept Empiricisms, Ancient and ModernAlexander GreenbergBibliographyIndex