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Armstrong on determinable and substantival universalsIn Radu J. Bogdan (ed.), D. M. Armstrong, D. Reidel. pp. 171-89. 1984.
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Aristotelian Explorations (review)Dialogue 38 (1): 199-201. 1999.Once Alexander of Aphrodisias revived the Peripatetic philosophy in the late secondcentury CE, Aristotle's surviving corpus became the guiding texts for a philosophicalschool, and, like any school, the Aristotelian one tried to systematize and dogmatizeits founder's teachings into a coherent and comprehensive approach to everything. Thisway of reading Aristotle was the dominant one through the Islamic and Christian Middle Ages, although occasionally a dissenter might express some doubt about how…Read more
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1Paul Vincent Spade, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Ockham Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 20 (6): 444-445. 2000.
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15Ancient Political Thought: A Reader (edited book)Broadview Press. 2013.This book presents selections from the political and social thought of the ancient West from the early sixth century BCE up to the early years of the Roman Empire and includes not only the classic philosophers, Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero, but a number of dramatists and historians as well. The range of topics these writings treat run from class conflict, through the perils of democracy and the horrors of tyranny, to the place of women in politics, while the styles range from the deeply dramatic…Read more
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Ludger Honnefelder, Rega Wood, and Mechthild Dreyer, eds., John Duns Scotus, Metaphysics and Ethics Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 17 (5): 335-337. 1997.
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13Ivan Boh, An Examination of Ockham's Aretetic LogicJournal of Symbolic Logic 34 (3): 499-499. 1969.
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A.S. Mcgrade, Ed., The Cambridge Companion To Medieval Philosophy (review)Philosophy in Review 24 129-131. 2004.
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35Abailard and non-thingsJournal of the History of Philosophy 5 (4): 329-342. 1967.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Abailard and Non-Things MARTIN M. TWEEDALE On SEVERAL OCCASIONSin his logical writings Abailard extracts himself from embarrassing ontological implications of his analyses of language by resorting to the notion of a something that is not a thing. I shall note here two such occasions and then discuss Abailard's explanations of this procedure based on the grammatical distinction of personal and impersonal constructions. Since the texts…Read more
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2John Marenbom, Later Medieval Philosophy , An Introduction (review)Philosophy in Review 8 (9): 351-354. 1988.
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34Comments on “explaining sense perception: A scholastic challenge” by Alison J. SimmonsPhilosophical Studies 73 (2-3). 1994.
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27Aristotelian ExplorationsG. E. R. Lloyd New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996, ix + 242 pp (review)Dialogue 38 (1): 199-. 1999.Once Alexander of Aphrodisias revived the Peripatetic philosophy in the late secondcentury CE, Aristotle's surviving corpus became the guiding texts for a philosophicalschool, and, like any school, the Aristotelian one tried to systematize and dogmatizeits founder's teachings into a coherent and comprehensive approach to everything. Thisway of reading Aristotle was the dominant one through the Islamic and Christian Middle Ages, although occasionally a dissenter might express some doubt about how…Read more
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Paul Vincent Spade, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Ockham (review)Philosophy in Review 20 444-445. 2000.
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60Basic Issues in Medieval Philosophy, Second Edition: Selected Readings Presenting Interactive Discourse Among the Major Figures (edited book)Broadview Press. 2006.In this important collection, the editors argue that medieval philosophy is best studied as an interactive discussion between thinkers working on very much the same problems despite being often widely separated in time or place. Each section opens with at least one selection from a classical philosopher, and there are many points at which the readings chosen refer to other works that the reader will also find in this collection. There is a considerable amount of material from central figures suc…Read more
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William A. Frank and Allan B. Wolter, Duns Scotus, Metaphysician Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 16 (4): 254-256. 1996.
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3Brian Lawn, The Rise and Decline of the Scholastic “Quaestio disputata” with Special Emphasis on Its Use in the Teaching of Medicine and Science.(Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, 2.) Leiden, New York, and Cologne: EJ Brill, 1993. Pp. ix, 176. $51.50 (review)Speculum 70 (1): 168-170. 1995.
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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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14Review: William of Sherwood, Norman Kretzmann, Treatise on Syncategorematic Words (review)Journal of Symbolic Logic 35 (3): 450-451. 1970.
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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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