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1Review of Wippel, "Mediaeval Reactions to the Encounter Between Faith and Reason. the Aquinas Lecture, 1995" (review)Review of Metaphysics 51 (1): 179-179. 1997.
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10Review of Stephen J. Pope (ed.), The Ethics of Aquinas (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2003 (1). 2003.
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Human NatureIn Arthur Stephen McGrade (ed.), The Cambridge companion to medieval philosophy, Cambridge University Press. 2003.
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136Democritus and secondary qualitiesArchiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 89 (2): 99-121. 2007.Democritus is generally understood to have anticipated the seventeenthcentury distinction between primary and secondary qualities. I argue that this is not the case, and that instead for Democritus all sensible qualities are conventional.
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14CognitionIn Thomas Williams (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Duns Scotus, Cambridge University Press. pp. 285. 2003.A summary of Scotus's cognitive theory.
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82Aquinas on Thought’s Linguistic NatureThe Monist 80 (4): 558-575. 1997.Thomas Aquinas gives us many reasons to think that conceptual thought is linguistic in nature. Most notably, he refers to a mental concept as a verbum or word. He further says that such concepts may be either simple or complex, and that complex concepts are formed out of simple ones, through composition or division. These complex concepts may either affirm or deny a predicate of a subject. All of these claims suggest that conceptual thought is somehow language-like. Moreover, Aquinas would have …Read more
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47On Metaphysical themes: replies to critics (review)Philosophical Studies 171 (1): 37-50. 2014.Reply to NormoreCalvin Normore offers a very interesting big-picture thesis about the later medieval period, one with multiple components. First, he thinks the first quarters of the thirteenth century—the era of Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas—are “gobsmacked” by the recovery of Aristotle’s work, and hence are “anomalous.” Second he thinks that, once the gobsmacking is over, the philosophers—beginning with Peter John Olivi and onward into the fourteenth century—return to “building upon the i…Read more
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17The Philosophy of AquinasWestview. 2004.Beginning with a brief overview of Aquinas’ life and philosophical career, the authors introduce his overarching explanatory framework in order to provide the necessary background to his substantive theorizing in a wide range of areas: rational theology, metaphysics, philosophy of human nature, philosophy of mind, and ethical and political theory. Although not intended to provide a comprehensive evaluation of all aspects of Aquinas’ far-reaching writings, the volume does present a systematic int…Read more
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11Questiones super Physicam (Books I-VII) by Nicole Oresme (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 52 (3): 610-611. 2014.A review of the Latin text of Oresme's important work.
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