Table of Contents

Introduction
1: Sensation
2: Intuitive cognition
3: Abstractive cognition (1): abstraction and concept formation
4: Abstractive cognition (2): intelligible species
5: The ontological status of cognitive acts
6: The production of cognitive acts
7: The soul and its powers
8: Semantic internalism and the grounds of intentionality
9: Mental language and the nature of conceptual content
10: The ontological status of mental content
Concluding remarks

About the Author

Richard Cross is the John A. O'Brien Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. Before that he was Tutorial Fellow in Theology at Oriel College, Oxford from 1993 to 2007, and Professor of Medieval Theology from 2007.

Reviews

[Cross] is in my mind one of the few who have the ability to make Scotus understandable, clear and philosophically interesting. It is always a delight to pick up one of his books on Scotus. I constantly learn something new. He has now published a new book on Scotus's theory of cognition. It is another very interesting treatment of an important aspect of Scotus's philosophy ... It is the clearest and most interesting treatment of Scotus's theory of cognition out there.
*Henrik Lagerlund, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Online*

very accurate and useful survey of Scotuss thought on the topic of cognitive theory
*Oleg V. Bychkov, Franciscan Studies*

Richard Cross's latest book on John Duns Scotus provides the first comprehensive study of the cognition theory advanced by this ingenious and understudied medieval thinker.
*Therese Scarpelli Cory*