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14Review: William of Sherwood, Norman Kretzmann, Treatise on Syncategorematic Words (review)Journal of Symbolic Logic 35 (3): 450-451. 1970.
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30Aristotle's Motionless SoulDialogue 29 (1): 123-. 1990.Whether or not we adopt some form of physicalism in our thinking about the psychology of humans and other organisms we all believe that a mind is something that comes into being, changes, develops and decays. The correlation of the development and then later the decay of our mental powers with changes in the brain post-dates our belief that the mental realm is as much an area where things ebb and flow, come to be and pass away, as is the physical. Even ancient authors who hold to the indestructi…Read more
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55Ockham's Supposed Elimination of Connotative Terms and His Ontological ParsimonyDialogue 31 (3): 431-. 1992.Two of the best currently practising scholars of Ockham, Marilyn Adams and Paul Spade, seem to have accepted a reading of Ockham's ontological program which, although it contains much that is uncontroversially correct, attributes to Ockham a reductionist view that is on my interpretation of his works far too radical to be genuinely Ockham's. Their reading runs as follows. So far as entities go, Ockham accepts only particular substances and some particular qualities. Aristotle's categories, accor…Read more
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3John Marenbon, The Philosophy of Peter Abelard (review)Philosophy in Review 18 (3): 207-209. 1998.
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1David Luscombe, Medieval Thought.(A History of Western Philosophy, 2.) Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Paper. Pp. vii, 248. $13.95 (review)Speculum 75 (3): 709-710. 2000.
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21The Rise and Decline of the Scholastic “Quaestio disputata” with Special Emphasis on Its Use in the Teaching of Medicine and Science (review)Speculum 70 (1): 168-170. 1995.
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53Aristotle’s RealismCanadian Journal of Philosophy 18 (3). 1988.Although there are a very few occasions on which Aristotle speaks of words, on the one hand, or mental concepts, on the other, as universals, he was no nominalist and no conceptualist. This negative thesis I have argued sufficiently, at least to my own satisfaction, in an earlier paper. He was, rather, a realist, but of a very tenuous sort. As I said in the earlier paper, he viewed universals as real entities but lacking numerical oneness; each is numerically many, and yet each is also one in so…Read more
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