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61Review: The Philosophy of John Duns Scotus (review)Journal of Scottish Philosophy 8 (2): 211-213. 2010.
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49Divisibility, Communicability, and Predicability in Duns Scotus’s Theories of the Common NatureMedieval Philosophy & Theology 11 (1): 43-63. 2003.
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49Identity, Origin, and Persistence in Duns Scotus's PhysicsHistory of Philosophy Quarterly 16 (1). 1999.
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49Disability, impairment, and some medieval accounts of the incarnation: Suggestions for a theology of personhoodModern Theology 27 (4): 639-658. 2011.Drawing on insights from the medieval theologians Duns Scotus and Hervaeus Natalis, I argue that medieval views of the incarnation require that there is a sense in which the divine person depends on his human nature for his human personhood, and thus that the paradigmatic pattern of human personhood is in some way dependent existence. I relate this to a modern distinction between impairment and disability to show that impairment—understood as dependence—is normative for human personhood. I try t…Read more
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47Duns Scotus on the Semantic Content of Cognitive Acts and SpeciesQuaestio 10 135-154. 2010.Scotus holds that dispositional and occurrent cognitions are qualities that inhere in the soul. These qualities have semantic or conceptual content. I show that such content is nothing in any sense real, and that this content consists either in the relevant quality’s being measured by an extramental object, or in its being such that it would be measured by such an object in the case that there were such an object. The measurement relation, in the case of an intelligible species, is secured by th…Read more
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47The Physics of Duns Scotus: The Scientific Context of a Theological VisionClarendon Press. 1998.Duns Scotus, along with Thomas Aquinas and William of Ockham, was one of the three most talented and influential of the medieval schoolmen, and a highly original thinker. This book examines the central concepts in his physics, including matter, space, time, and unity.
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40John Duns Scotus. Duns Scotus on Time and Existence: The Questions on Aristotle’s “De interpretatione.” Trans. and ed. Edward Buckner and Jack Zupko. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2014. Pp. 376. $69.95 (review)Hopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 6 (2): 352-353. 2016.
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38Review of Russell L. Friedman, Medieval Trinitarian Thought From Aquinas to Ockham (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2010 (11). 2010.
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28Tobias Hoffmann creatura intellecta: Die ideen und possibilien bei duns scotus mit ausblick auf Franz Von mayronis, poncius und mastrius. (Beiträge zur geschichte der philosophie und theologie Des mittelalters, neue folge, 60) (münster: Aschendorff, 2002). Pp. V+358. € 46.00 (pbk). ISBN 3 402 04011 (review)Religious Studies 39 (4): 489-491. 2003.
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27Duns Scotus’s Theory of CognitionOxford University Press. 2014.Richard Cross provides the first full study of Duns Scotus's theory of cognition, examining his account of the processes involved in cognition, from sensation, through intuition and abstraction, to conceptual thought. Cross places Scotus's thought clearly within the context of 13th-century study on the mind, and of his intellectual forebears.
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26Henry of Ghent on the Reality of Non-Existing Possibles – RevisitedArchiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 92 (2): 115-132. 2010.According to a well-known interpretation, Henry of Ghent holds that possible but non-existent essences – items merely with what Henry labels ‘esse essentiae’ – have some reality external to the divine mind, but short of actual existence (esse existentiae). I argue that this reading of Henry is mistaken. Furthermore, Henry identifies any essence, considered independently of its existence as a universal concept or as instantiated in a particular as an item that has some kind of reality in the divi…Read more
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24Being and Some Twentieth Century Thomists (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 44 (3): 446-448. 2004.
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21The Metaphysical Thought of Thomas Aquinas (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 42 (1): 128-130. 2002.
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20Theories of Cognition in the Later Middle Ages (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 38 (4): 445-446. 1998.
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19The Routledge Companion to Medieval Philosophy (edited book)Routledge. 2021.Like any other group of philosophers, scholastic thinkers from the Middle Ages disagreed about even the most fundamental of concepts. With their characteristic style of rigorous semantic and logical analysis, they produced a wide variety of diverse theories about a huge number of topics. The Routledge Companion to Medieval Philosophy offers readers an outstanding survey of many of these diverse theories, on a wide array of subjects. Its 35 chapters, all written exclusively for this Companion by…Read more
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19Nominalism and the Christology of William of OckhamRecherches de Theologie Et Philosophie Medievales 58 (n/a): 126-156. 1991.
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18The Metaphysics of the Incarnation: Thomas Aquinas to Duns ScotusOxford University Press on Demand. 2005.The period from Thomas Aquinas to Duns Scotus is one of the richest in the history of Christian theology. The Metaphysics of the Incarnation aims to provide a thorough examination of the doctrine in this era, making explicit its philosophical and theological foundations. Medieval theologians believed that there were good reasons for supposing that Christ's human nature was an individual. In the light of this, Part 1 discusses how the various thinkers held that an individual nature could be unite…Read more
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17Individuation in Scholasticism: The Later Middle Ages and the Counter-Reformation 1150-1650International Philosophical Quarterly 35 (3): 349-351. 1995.
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15Two Models of the Trinity?Heythrop Journal 43 (3): 275-294. 2002.Contrary to a common assumption, I argue that there is full agreement between East and West on the issue of the relation between the divine essence and the divine persons. I defend this claim by using the understanding of universals found in D. M. Armstrong to cast light on the theories. Taking Gregory of Nyssa and John of Damascus as representatives of the Eastern tradition, I show that this tradition sees the divine essence as a numerically singular object that is wholly present in each divine…Read more
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9Duns Scotus on GodRoutledge. 2005.John Duns Scotus was the philosopher's theologian par excellence, a man who was interested in arguments for their own sake. Richard Cross explores the theological world in which he lived and his painstaking understanding of the mystery of God.
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8Selected Writings on Ethics, edited and translated by Thomas Williams (review)Studies in Christian Ethics 32 (4): 573-575. 2017.
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8La volonté de croire au Moyen-Âge. Les theories de la foi dans la pensée scolastique du XIIIe siècle by Nicolas FaucherJournal of the History of Philosophy 60 (2): 338-340. 2022.This excellent book provides a novel analysis of medieval theories of faith, using as its conceptual basis the notion of doxastic voluntarism: the thought that belief is in some sense in our power to choose. This notion fits very neatly with medieval accounts, since, other than in cases in which the intellect's assent is compelled, the medieval philosophers all maintained that assent to a given proposition—paradigmatically the supernatural claims of Catholic Christianity, the principal interest …Read more
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7A Trinitarian Debate in Early Fourtheenth-Century ChristologyRecherches de Theologie Et Philosophie Medievales 70 (2): 233-274. 2003.John Baconthorpe canvasses a number of views on the question of the identity of the feature of a divine person that enables that person to become incarnate. The possible features are: the divine essence, the personal property, or the union of both. The views considered are those of Duns Scotus, Durandus of Saint-Pourcain, Peter Auriol, and an Oxonian theologian Walter Burdon, none of whose writing otherwise survive. Baconthorpe's own view is that the union of essence and person is the relevant i…Read more
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2Aquinas on Nature, Hypostasis, and the Metaphysics of the IncarnationThe Thomist 60 (2). 1996.Aquinas distinguishes four types of part included in a hypostasis (’suppositum’): (1) kind-nature; (2) individuating feature(s); (3) accidents; (4) concrete parts. (1) - (3) in some sense contribute ’esse’ to the ’suppositum’. Usually Aquinas holds that Christ’s human nature does not contribute ’esse’ to its divine ’suppositum’, since it is analogous to a concrete part of its ’suppositum’. This effectively commits Aquinas to the Monophysite heresy. In ’De Unione’ Aquinas argues instead that Chri…Read more
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1Relations and the Trinity: The Case of Henry of Ghent and John Duns ScotusDocumenti E Studi Sulla Tradizione Filosofica Medievale 16 1-21. 2005.Dopo una premessa in cui si precisano le finalità dell'articolo e si fa il punto sugli antecedenti della discussione, concentrandosi sulle trattazioni teologiche degli autori del sec. XII, l'A. studia gli sviluppi offerti da Enrico di Gand alla teoria agostiniana delle relazioni applicata alle tre persone della Trinità. La seconda parte dello studio è dedicata alla risposta elaborata da Duns Scoto alla posizione di Enrico: fondandosi su differenti elaborazioni della teoria della relazione , i du…Read more
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