Representation and scepticism from Aquinas to Descartes / Han Thomas Adriaenssen.

Cover; Half-title page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I The veil of species; 1 Through Species to the World: Aquinas and Henry of Ghent; 1.1 Cognition, Change and Assimilation; 1.2 Apprehending Species and the Directness of Cognition; 1.3 Species and Scepticism; 1.4 Henry of Ghent; 2 Perception without Intermediaries: Olivi's Critique of Species; 2.1 Challenging the Species Theory; 2.2 Augustinian Alternatives; 2.3 Olivi's Direct Realism; 2.4 Olivi on Representational Content

2.5 Conceptual Cognition: The Limits of Olivi's Direct Realism3 Direct Realism about Perception and Beyond: Auriol and Ockham; 3.1 Auriol on Perception; 3.2 Auriol on Conceptual Thought; 3.3 Ockham on Seeing without Species; 3.4 Acts of the Imagination and Their Objects; 3.5 Thinking of Universals; Part II The veil of cartesian ideas; 4 Transformations of Cartesianism: Malebranche and Arnauld; 4.1 Descartes; 4.2 Malebranche's Intervention; 4.3 The Vision in God; 4.4 Arnauld and the Charge of Idealism; 4.5 Arnauld's Alternative; 5 Ideas and Objects in Desgabets's Radical Cartesianism

5.1 Problems from Foucher5.2 Desgabets and Direct Realism; 5.3 Desgabets's Intentionality Principle; 5.4 Reinterpreting the Essential Being; 5.5 A Destruction of Pyrrhonism?; 6 The Solid Philosophy of John Sergeant; 6.1 Cartesianism as a Religious Threat; 6.2 Sergeant's Critique; 6.3 Sergeant's Way of Notions; 6.4 Things in the Mind; Part III: Representations and scepticism; 7 From Representation to Object; 7.1 Unused Representations; 7.2 Ontological Problems; 7.3 Ontology and the Objective Being; 8 Criteriological Problems; 8.1 Epistemic Optimism; 8.2 Can We Trust Our Ideas?; Conclusion