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Are thoughts and sentences compositional? : a controversy between Abelard and a pupil of Alberic on the reconciliation of ancient theses on mind and languageIn John Marenbon (ed.), The many roots of medieval logic: the aristotelian and the non-aristotelian traditions: special offprint of Vivarium 45, 2-3 (2007), Brill. 2007.
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Why is thought linguistic? : Ockham's two conceptions of the intellectIn Dominik Perler (ed.), Transformations of the soul: Aristotelian psychology, 1250-1650, Brill. 2008.
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14Foggia: “Medicine and Philosophy III: Contagion and Fascination”Bulletin de Philosophie Medievale 64 369-374. 2023.
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18Spinoza on the interaction of ideas : biased beliefsIn Aurelia Armstrong, Keith Green & Andrea Sangiacomo (eds.), Spinoza and Relational Autonomy: Being with Others, Eup. pp. 50-73. 2019.
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43Socializing Minds: Intersubjectivity in Early Modern PhilosophyOxford University Press. 2022.In this book, Martin Lenz provides the first reconstruction of intersubjective accounts of the mind in early modern philosophy. Some phenomena are easily recognised as social or interactive: certain dances, forms of work and rituals require interaction to come into being or count as valid. But what about mental states, such as thoughts, volitions, or emotions? Do our minds also depend on other minds? The idea that our minds are intersubjective or social seems to be a recent one, developed mainly…Read more
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4Oratio mentalis und Mentalesisch. Ein spätmittelalterlicher Blick auf die gegenwärtige Philosophie des GeistesIn Martin Pickavé & Jan A. Aertsen (eds.), "Herbst des Mittelalters?" Fragen zur Bewertung des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, Walter De Gruyter. pp. 105-132. 2004.
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32Kritik über Brower & Guilfoy (2004): The Cambridge Companion to Abelard (review)Bochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch Fur Antike Und Mittelalter 10 (1): 235-239. 2005.
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26Review of Goldstein (1998): Nominalismus und Moderne: Zur Konstitution neuzeitlicher Subjektivi-tat bei Hans Blumenberg und Wilhelm von Ockham (review)Bochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch Fur Antike Und Mittelalter 4 (1): 267-270. 1999.
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12Review of Leffler (1995): Wilhelm von Ockham: Die sprachphilosophischen Grundlagen seines Denkens (review)Bochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch Fur Antike Und Mittelalter 2 (1): 294-297. 1997.
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22Review of Andrews & Ebbesen (2000): Cahiers de l’Institut du Moyen-Âge grec et latin (review)Bochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch Fur Antike Und Mittelalter 7 (1): 261-265. 2002.
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14Kritik über Schröcker (2003): Das Verhältnis der Allmacht Gottes zum Kontradiktionsprinzip nach Wilhelm von Ockham (review)Bochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch Fur Antike Und Mittelalter 9 (1): 227-235. 2004.
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20Cluj-Napoca: “Medicine and Philosophy: The longue durée of humoral theory”Bulletin de Philosophie Medievale 61 270-277. 2019.
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8Lockes SprachkonzeptionDe Gruyter. 2009.In der 1970 gegründeten Reihe erscheinen Arbeiten, die philosophiehistorische Studien mit einem systematischen Ansatz oder systematische Studien mit philosophiehistorischen Rekonstruktionen verbinden. Neben deutschsprachigen werden auch englischsprachige Monographien veröffentlicht. Gründungsherausgeber sind: Erhard Scheibe, Günther Patzig und Wolfgang Wieland. Von 1990 bis 2007 wurde die Reihe von Jürgen Mittelstraß mitherausgegeben.
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70INTERVIEW: Gedacht wird in der Welt, nicht im KopfDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 58 (6): 981-1000. 2010.This interview deals with the major themes in the work of Ruth Millikan. Her most fundamental idea is that the intentionality of inner and outer representations can be understood in analogy to biological functions. Another innovative feature is the view that thought and language stand parallel to each other. Thirdly, the basic ideas concerning the ontology and the epistemology of concepts are explained. Millikan aims at clarifying her position by contrasting it with Dretske, Fodor, Sellars, and …Read more
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7Review of Leffler (1995): Wilhelm von Ockham: Die sprachphilosophischen Grundlagen seines Denkens (review)Bochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch Fur Antike Und Mittelalter 2 (1): 294-297. 1997.
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54Whose Freedom? The Idea of Appropriation in Spinoza's CompatibilismZeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 71 (3): 343-357. 2017.
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24Dans cette étude, je voudrais considérer l’une des questions les plus anciennes de la philosophie du langage, à savoir : qu’est-ce qui détermine la signification des expressions linguistiques? Prenez un mot comme « eau ». Qu’est-ce qui détermine la signification de ce mot? Il semble qu’il y a au moins deux réponses possibles : la première consiste à dire que la signification du mot est déterminée par mon idée de l’eau, de sorte que ce sont mes pensées internes qui déterminent la significati...
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67Peculiar perfection: Peter Abelard on propositional attitudesJournal of the History of Philosophy 43 (4): 377-386. 2005.In the course of the debates on Priscian's notion of the perfect sentence, the philosopher Peter Abelard developed a theory that closely resembles modern accounts of propositional attitudes and that goes far beyond the established Aristotelian conceptions of the sentence. According to Abelard, the perfection of a sentence does not depend on the content that it expresses, but on the fact that the content is stated along with the propositional attitude towards the content. This paper tries to prov…Read more
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179Why is thought linguistic? Ockham's two conceptions of the intellectVivarium 46 (3): 302-317. 2008.One of Ockham's fundamental tenets about the human intellect is that its acts constitute a mental language. Although this language of thought shares some of the features of conventional language, thought is commonly considered as prior to conventional language. This paper tries to show that this consensus is seriously challenged in Ockham's early writings. I shall argue that, in claiming the priority of conventional language over mental language, Ockham established a novel explanation of the sys…Read more
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10Kongreßbericht: The Traditions of Ancient Logic in the Middle Ages. The 15th European Symposium on Medieval Logic and SemanticsBochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch Fur Antike Und Mittelalter 9 203-208. 2004.
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15Kongreßbericht: The Traditions of Ancient Logic in the Middle Ages. The 15th European Symposium on Medieval Logic and Semantics (review)Bochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch Fur Antike Und Mittelalter 9 (1): 203-208. 2004.
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32Is Locke’s Account of Personal Identity Really Subjectivist?Kant Studien 107 (3): 526-535. 2016.Name der Zeitschrift: Kant-Studien Jahrgang: 107 Heft: 3 Seiten: 526-535.
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54Locke’s Theory of Ideas and the Myth of the GivenQuaestio 12 101-122. 2012.In the wake of Wilfrid Sellars’ philosophy, John Locke’s theory of ideas is often taken to fall prey to the so-called Myth of the Given. The main charge is that Locke appeals to passively received sense impressions to justify knowledge claims and ultimately confuses natural processes with normative conceptual activity. In this paper, I will argue that the accusations are founded on a faulty reading and that Locke’s account does indeed circumvent Givenism without having to abandon the foundationa…Read more
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39Contemporary Perspectives on Early Modern Philosophy: Nature and Norms in Thought (edited book)Springer Verlag. 2013.Normativity has long been conceived as more properly pertaining to the domain of thought than to the domain of nature. This conception goes back to Kant and still figures prominently in contemporary epistemology, philosophy of mind and ethics. By offering a collection of new essays by leading scholars in early modern philosophy and specialists in contemporary philosophy, this volume goes beyond the point where nature and normativity came apart, and challenges the well-established opposition betw…Read more
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47Angels in Medieval Philosophical Inquiry: Their Function and Significance (edited book)Ashgate. 2008.The first is of a more historical nature, the second of philosophical concern: what was the place occupied by angels in the medieval world-view and what was ...
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23Himmlische SätzeBochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch Fur Antike Und Mittelalter 3 (1): 99-120. 1998.In reply to the question whether articles of faith can be demonstrated, William of Ockham articulated a peculiar thesis: Even though it is impossible to prove articles of faith in this life, the blessed in heaven could demonstrate our creditive propositions. In contrast to traditional views, William held that both conclusions drawn in heaven and conclusions drawn in this life are subject to the same criteria. This assumption led to a controversy between William's contemporaries, namely, Walter C…Read more
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85This paper reconstructs a controversy between a pupil of Alberic of Paris and Peter Abelard which illustrates two competing ways of reconciling different ancient traditions. I shall argue that their accounts of the relation between sentences and thoughts are incompatible with one another, although they rely on the same set of sources. The key to understanding their different views on assertive and non-assertive sentences lies in their disparate views about the structure of thoughts: whereas Abel…Read more
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