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19Medieval Philosophy: A Very Short IntroductionOxford University Press UK. 2016.For many of us, the term 'medieval philosophy' conjures up the figure of Thomas Aquinas, and is closely intertwined with religion. In this Very Short Introduction John Marenbon shows how medieval philosophy had a far broader reach than the thirteenth and fourteenth-century universities of Christian Europe, and is instead one of the most exciting and diversified periods in the history of thought.Introducing the coexisting strands of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish philosophy, Marenbon shows how the…Read more
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19The Problem of Universals from Boethius to John of Salisbury by Roberto PinzaniJournal of the History of Philosophy 58 (1): 170-171. 2020.Roberto Pinzani has written a closely-argued, highly original, valuable but difficult book. The Problem of Universals, indeed, is—and has been for nearly two centuries—the most frequently treated topic in medieval philosophy, and solutions to it proposed by two of the philosophers discussed here, Boethius and Abelard, have been examined countless times. But no one has before tried to cover the whole period, from circa 500 to circa 1150, looking in detail at a whole variety of writers. Moreover, …Read more
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15AestheticsIn H. Lagerlund (ed.), Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy, Springer. pp. 26--32. 2011.
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15Aristotelian logic, Platonism, and the context of early medieval philosophy in the WestAshgate/Variorum. 2000.Philosophy in the medieval Latin West before 1200 is often thought to have been dominated by Platonism. The articles in this volume question this view, by cataloguing, describing and investigating the tradition of Aristotelian logic during this period, examining its influence on authors usually placed within the Aristotelian tradition (Eriugena, Anselm, Gilbert of Poitiers), and also looking at some of the characteristics of early medieval Platonism. Abelard, the most brilliant logician of the a…Read more
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14Le temps, l'éternité et la prescience de Boèce à Thomas d'AquinLibr. philosophique J. Vrin. 2005.Si Dieu prévoit toute chose, rien n’arrive sauf par nécessité car il y a incompatibilité entre la certitude de la connaissance et la contingence. Une des réponses classiques est celle que la philosophie analytique nomme « la solution boécienne » ou « de Thomas d’Aquin » et qui repose sur l’idée que Dieu est atemporellement éternel.Dans ce livre, John Marenbon démontre que les théories de ces deux auteurs ne correspondent pas à cette solution dans le sens où, selon eux, la connaissance est relati…Read more
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14Ockham on ConceptsRoutledge. 2004.William of Ockham is known to be one of the major figures of the late Middle Ages. The scope and significance of his doctrine of human thought, however, has been a controversial issue among scholars in the last decade, and this book presents a full discussion of recent developments. Claude Panaccio proposes a richly documented and entirely original reinterpretation of Ockham's theory of concepts as a coherent blend of representationalism, conceptual atomism, and non reductionist nominalism, stre…Read more
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13Les relacions en la filosofia llatina medieval primerenca: contra el relat estàndardEnrahonar: Quaderns de Filosofía 61 41-58. 2018.https://revistes.uab.cat/enrahonar/article/view/v61-marenbon.
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12Introduction: Special Issue on the Twelfth-Century Logical SchoolsVivarium 60 (2-3): 113-136. 2022.This special issue grew out of a small conference The Known & the Unknown: Exploring Twelfth-Century Philosophy, which was funded by the Carlsberg Foundation, hosted by the Saxo Institute, and held at the University of Copenhagen in April 2018. Its central topic was the many, mostly unexplored, commentaries on Aristotle, Boethius, and Porphyry that constitute the key textual evidence for a fascinating phenomenon that, although it played a pivotal role in the philosophical revival of Western Euro…Read more
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11Abelard in Four Dimensions: A Twelfth-Century Philosopher in His Context and OursUniversity of Notre Dame Press. 2013.
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11Aristotelianism in the Greek, Latin, Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew TraditionsIn H. Lagerlund (ed.), Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy, Springer. pp. 99--105. 2011.
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11European and American PhilosophersIn Robert L. Arrington (ed.), A Companion to the Philosophers, Blackwell. 2017.Peter Abelard (1079–1142 ce) was the most wide‐ranging philosopher of the twelfth century. He quickly established himself as a leading teacher of logic in and near Paris shortly after 1100. After his affair with Heloise, and his subsequent castration, Abelard became a monk, but he returned to teaching in the Paris schools until 1140, when his work was condemned by a Church Council at Sens. His logical writings were based around discussion of the “Old Logic”: Porphyry's Isagoge, aristotle'S Categ…Read more
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10The late ancient background to medieval philosophyIn The Oxford Handbook to Medieval Philosophy, Oxford University Press. pp. 17. 2012.
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9A collection of essays written by pupils, friends and colleagues of Professor Peter Dronke, to honour him on his retirement. The essays address the question of the relationship between poetry and philosophy in the Middle Ages. Contributors include Walter Berschin, Charles Burnett, Stephen Gersh, Michael Herren, Edouard Jeauneau, David Luscombe, Paul Gerhardt Schmidt, Joe Trapp, Jill Mann, Claudio Orlandi and John Marenbon. It is an important collection for both philosophical and literary special…Read more
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8Aquinas: Selected Philosophical WritingsInternational Philosophical Quarterly 36 (4): 495-496. 1996.
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8Continuity and Innovation in Medieval and Modern Philosophy: Knowledge, Mind and Language (edited book)Oup/British Academy. 2013.The usual division of philosophy into 'medieval' and 'modern' may obscure very real continuities in the ideas of thinkers in the western and Islamic traditions. This book examines three areas where these continuities are particularly clear: knowledge, the mind, and language
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8Alan of LilleIn Jorge J. E. Gracia & Timothy B. Noone (eds.), A Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages, Blackwell. 2005.
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7Pagans and philosophers: the problem of paganism from Augustine to LeibnizPrinceton University Press. 2015.Pagans and Philosophers explores how writers—philosophers and theologians, but also poets such as Dante, Chaucer, and Langland, and travelers such as Las Casas and Ricci—tackled the Problem of Paganism. Augustine and Boethius set its terms, while Peter Abelard and John of Salisbury were important early advocates of pagan wisdom and virtue. University theologians such as Aquinas, Scotus, Ockham, and Bradwardine, and later thinkers such as Ficino, Valla, More, Bayle, and Leibniz, explored the diff…Read more
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6Later Medieval PhilosophyRoutledge. 1987.First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
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5Abelard's Concept of Natural LawIn Albert Zimmermann & Andreas Speer (eds.), Mensch und Natur im Mittelalter, 2. Halbbd, De Gruyter. pp. 609-621. 1991.
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5Several specialists illustrate the wide range of Britain's contribution to medieval philosophy. A number of the discussions throw new light on celebratedBritish medieval philosophers, such as Robert Grossetetste and John Duns Scotus. Others show the importance of less well-known thinkers such as Richard Fishacre, Richard Rufus and Thomas Wylton? The subjects of the papers range widely, both chronologically-from Anselm of Canterbury in the eleventh century to the political and ethical writers of …Read more
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4Anonymus Cantabrigiensis, Commentarium in Sophisticos Elenchos Aristotelis_; Boethii Daci aliorumque sophismata _ Anonymus Cantabrigiensis, _Commentarium in Sophisticos Elenchos Aristotelis_ _, edited by Sten Ebbesen, Copenhagen, Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, 2019, pp. 407, ISBN: 9788773044247, DKK 150,00 (pb); _ _Boethii Daci aliorumque sophismata_ , edited by Sten Ebbesen and Irène Rosier-Catach, Copenhagen, Narayan Press, 2021, pp. 624, ISBN: 978-87-7533-053-9, DKK 370,00 (pb) (review)British Journal for the History of Philosophy 1-4. forthcoming.Editions of difficult, obscure Latin philosophical texts from the Middle Ages rarely receive reviews in general History of Philosophy journals. An exception might be made for an important new editi...
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