Book | Chapter
(2017) Questions on the soul by John Buridan and others, Dordrecht, Springer.
Panaccio's chapter takes on the issue of objects of thought in a purely nominalist setting, comparing Ockham's and Buridan's accounts of the same questions. The chapter argues that whereas William of Ockham can legitimately be branded as a linguistic externalist, Buridan's considered position with respect to linguistic meaning is a form of internalism. In this discussion, much hinges on the precise understanding of the medieval doctrine of imposition, the mechanism whereby written and spoken symbols are subordinated to acts of thought, and how this mechanism relates individual acts of thought to their publicly recognized objects.
Publication details
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-51763-6_15
Full citation:
Panaccio, C. (2017)., Linguistic externalism and mental language in Ockham and Buridan, in G. Klima (ed.), Questions on the soul by John Buridan and others, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 225-237.
This document is unfortunately not available for download at the moment.