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  1. Avicenna on representation: towards an existential-relational account of intentionality.Zhenyu Cai - forthcoming - British Journal for the History of Philosophy:1-20.
    Many scholars consider Avicenna’s theory of cognitive forms a theory of representation, which raises two questions. First, why does a cognitive form represent a particular object instead of another? This issue is known as the determination problem. Second, what is the nature of intentionality of the cognitive form? This is known as the nature problem. This paper examines Avicenna’s theory of cognitive forms and focuses on how he would address the two problems. I argue that Avicenna offers a pluralistic approach (...)
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