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2Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy, Volume 2 (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2014.Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy showcases the best new scholarly work on philosophy from the end of antiquity into the Renaissance. OSMP combines historical scholarship with philosophical acuteness, and will be an essential resource for anyone working in the area.
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33Scholastic Qualities, Primary and SecondaryIn Lawrence Nolan (ed.), Primary and secondary qualities: the historical and ongoing debate, Oxford University Press. pp. 41. 2011.
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35William Heytesbury on Knowledge: Epistemology without Necessary and Sufficient ConditionsHistory of Philosophy Quarterly 12 (4). 1995.
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29On Efficient Causality (review)Philosophical Review 105 (4): 533-535. 1996.A quick scan of the leading figures in western philosophy reveals that relatively few have made a name for themselves by defending intuitive, natural, and sensible positions. Aristotle is one, and perhaps Aquinas is another. Francisco Suarez, the sixteenth-century Spanish scholastic, would be a third. His invariable working procedure is to give copious consideration to the various ancient and medieval views, and then to find some sensible compromise position. But today Suarez can hardly claim to…Read more
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The Cambridge Translations of Medieval Philosophical Texts, 3In Robert Pasnau (ed.), Mind and Knowledge, Cambridge University Press. 2002.The third volume of The Cambridge Translations of Medieval Philosophical Texts will allow scholars and students access in English, to major texts that form the debate over mind and knowledge at the center of medieval philosophy. Beginning with thirteenth-century attempts to classify the soul's powers and to explain the mind's place within the soul, the volume proceeds systematically to consider the scope of human knowledge and the role of divine illumination, intentionality and mental representa…Read more
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Review 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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8CognitionIn 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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127Democritus 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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Epistemology |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |