Uma breve defesa da interpretação representacionalista de Tomás de Aquino

Authors

  • Filipe Martone Universidade Estadual de Campinas

Keywords:

aquinas, representationalism, medieval philosophy, intentionality, epistemology

Abstract

In this paper, I will present some aspects of the debate between the direct realist interpretation and the representationalist interpretation of Thomas Aquinas. As I will argue, I believe that a representationalist interpretation of mental content is more coherent regarding some theses that Aquinas holds and that this interpretation can be supported by good textual evidence. Moreover, a representationalist theory seems to be able to deal better, at least at first sight, with some problems that all direct realist theories of mental content face.

Author Biography

Filipe Martone, Universidade Estadual de Campinas

Mestrando pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas.

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Published

2015-12-15