Book contents
- Interpreting Buridan
- Interpreting Buridan
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The Philosopher as Arts Master
- 2 Principles in Buridan’s Logic of Consequences
- 3 Buridan on Paradox
- 4 Modality and Temporality in Buridan’s Logic
- 5 A Paradigm Change within Medieval Philosophy
- 6 Buridan’s Internalism
- 7 John Buridan on the Ontological Status of Artifacts
- 8 John Buridan on Final Causality
- 9 Female Physiology in John Buridan’s Quaestiones de secretis mulierum
- 10 Buridan on the Value of Emotions
- 11 Buridan on Happiness and the Good Life
- References
- Index
6 - Buridan’s Internalism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 February 2024
Book contents
- Interpreting Buridan
- Interpreting Buridan
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The Philosopher as Arts Master
- 2 Principles in Buridan’s Logic of Consequences
- 3 Buridan on Paradox
- 4 Modality and Temporality in Buridan’s Logic
- 5 A Paradigm Change within Medieval Philosophy
- 6 Buridan’s Internalism
- 7 John Buridan on the Ontological Status of Artifacts
- 8 John Buridan on Final Causality
- 9 Female Physiology in John Buridan’s Quaestiones de secretis mulierum
- 10 Buridan on the Value of Emotions
- 11 Buridan on Happiness and the Good Life
- References
- Index
Summary
The prevailing view of Buridan’s theory of cognition and his epistemology is that he is a kind of externalist as well as a reliabilist. This essay argues that this reading is mistaken and that Buridan instead must be seen as a semantic and epistemic internalist. The essay develops the arguments for both these views. The first part of the essay supplements an argument already made by Claude Panaccio, but the second part is a new argument for why Buridan must be seen as an epistemological internalist. The essay also compares Buridan to later empiricists such as David Hume.
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- Interpreting BuridanCritical Essays, pp. 88 - 100Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024