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02129aam a2200277Ii 4500 001 F7FE7AD2FAD211E7A45C351A97128E48 003 SILO 005 20180116092551 008 161121s2017 enk b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9781107181625 020 $a 1107181623 035 $a (OCoLC)963353364 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d NLE $d OCLCO $d CDX $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 050 4 $a B105.R4 $b A34 2017 $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/classification/B1-B5802 082 04 $a 121/.68 $2 23 100 1 $a Adrianssen, Han Thomas, $e author. 245 10 $a Representation and skepticism from Aquinas to Decartes / $c Han Thomas Adrianssen. 264 1 $a Cambridge, United Kingdom : $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2017. 300 $a viii, 279 pages ; $c 24 cm 520 8 $a 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. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-274) and index. 650 0 $a Skepticism. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85123125 650 0 $a Representation (Philosophy) $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85112936 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191210030122.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F7FE7AD2FAD211E7A45C351A97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search