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Representation and Scepticism from Aquinas to Descartes (Hardcover)
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Representation and Scepticism from Aquinas to Descartes (Hardcover)
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In this book Han Thomas Adriaenssen offers the first comparative
exploration of the sceptical reception of representationalism in
medieval and early modern philosophy. Descartes is traditionally
credited with inaugurating a new kind of scepticism by saying that
the direct objects of perception are images in the mind, not
external objects, but Adriaenssen shows that as early as the
thirteenth century, critics had already found similar problems in
Aquinas's theory of representation. He charts the attempts of
philosophers in both periods to grapple with these problems, and
shows how in order to address the challenges of scepticism and
representation, modern philosophers in the wake of Descartes often
breathed new life into old ideas, remoulding them in ways that we
are just beginning to understand. His book will be valuable for
historians interested in the medieval background to early modern
thought, and to medievalists looking at continuity with the early
modern period.
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