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35Voluntarist Anthropology in Peter of John Olivi's De contractibusFranciscan Studies 74 41-65. 2016.Peter of John Olivi’s Tractatus de contractibus is nowadays regarded as an important document in the history of economic thought.1 Modern scholars have proposed various interpretations of its exact contribution. Many aspects of Olivi’s argumentation have been traced to earlier discussions concerning the Roman and Canon laws, as well as to theological and philosophical literature on economic questions, but his overall approach has also been credited for transforming the medieval framework in a pr…Read more
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4171Fate of the Flying Man: Medieval Reception of Avicenna's Thought ExperimentOxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy 3 64-98. 2015.This chapter discusses the reception of Avicenna’s well-known “flying man” thought experiment in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Latin philosophy. The central claim is that the argumentative role of the thought experiment changed radically in the latter half of the thirteenth century. The earlier authors—Dominicus Gundissalinus, William of Auvergne, Peter of Spain, and John of la Rochelle—understood it as an ontological proof for the existence and/or the nature of the soul. By contrast, Matthew …Read more
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102Peter Olivi on Political Power, Will, and Human AgencyVivarium 54 (1): 22-45. 2016._ Source: _Volume 54, Issue 1, pp 22 - 45 This essay discusses the views of Peter Olivi on the foundations of political power and agency. The central argument is that there is a strong connection between Olivi’s voluntarist psychology and his views concerning political power. According to Olivi, political power is ultimately based on the will of God, but in such a way that both the rulers and their subjects have, through their individual freedom, the liberty to use their share of power as they w…Read more
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545Peter Olivi on Practical ReasoningIn A. Musco (ed.), Universality of Reason, Plurality of Philosophies in the Middle Ages: Proceedings of the 12th International Congress of Medieval Philosophy (S.I.E.P.M.), vol. II-2, Officina Di Studi Medievali. pp. 1033-1045. 2012.The subject matter of this essay is Peter of John Olivi’s (ca.1248–98) conception of reason from the viewpoint of human action.
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50Perceptual Self-Awareness in Seneca, Augustine, and OliviJournal of the History of Philosophy 51 (3): 355-382. 2013.This article traces the philosophical idea of self-perception from the times of ancient Stoicism to the thirteenth century by analyzing the views of Seneca, Augustine, and Olivi. The central argument is that they defend the same idea according to which self-preservation and the appropriate use of one’s body requires awareness thereof, despite the obvious contextual differences and the uncertainty of direct historical connections between the authors. They think that this kind of self-awareness do…Read more
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516Peter of John olivi on the psychology of animal actionJournal of the History of Philosophy 49 (4): 413-438. 2011.The present article delves into the history of political philosophy by discussing human sociability in Antonio Montecatini’s (1537–99) commentary on Aristotle’s Politics. The focus is on a philosophical analysis of three interrelated ideas that Montecatini discusses: (1) Aristotle’s dictum that human beings are political animals by nature; (2) naturalness of the household; and (3) the nature and origin of political communities. Montecatini’s views are briefly related to a contemporary of his, Jo…Read more
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205The Active Nature of the Soul in Sense Perception: Robert Kilwardby and Peter OliviVivarium 48 (3): 245-278. 2010.This article discusses the theories of perception of Robert Kilwardby and Peter of John Olivi. Our aim is to show how in challenging certain assumptions of medieval Aristotelian theories of perception they drew on Augustine and argued for the active nature of the soul in sense perception. For both Kilwardby and Olivi, the soul is not passive with respect to perceived objects; rather, it causes its own cognitive acts with respect to external objects and thus allows the subject to perceive them. W…Read more
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60Peter olivi on internal sensesBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 15 (3). 2007.This Article does not have an abstract
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University of GothenburgDepartment of Philosophy, Linguistics, Theory of ScienceAdjunct Professor (= Title of Docent)
Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
Areas of Specialization
13th/14th Century Philosophy |
Medieval Philosophy of Mind |
Medieval Political Philosophy |