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31New ideas on subject and identity in medieval logicIn Benedikt Schick, Edmund Runggaldier & Ludger Honnefelder (eds.), Unity and Time in Metaphysics, Walter De Gruyter. pp. 9--183. 2009.
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217Medieval Commentators on Future Contingents in De Interpretatione 9Vivarium 48 (1): 75-95. 2010.This article considers three medieval approaches to the problem of future contingent propositions in chapter 9 of Aristotle's _De interpretatione_. While Boethius assumed that God's atemporal knowledge infallibly pertains to historical events, he was inclined to believe that Aristotle correctly taught that future contingent propositions are not antecedently true or false, even though they may be characterized as true-or-false. Aquinas also tried to combine the allegedly Aristotelian view of the …Read more
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The Logic of Being. Historical StudiesRevue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 178 (1): 126-127. 1988.
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51Time and creation in AugustineIn Eleonore Stump & Norman Kretzmann (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Augustine, Cambridge University Press. pp. 103--15. 2001.
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13Modern Modalities: Studies of the History of Modal Theories From Medieval Nominalism to Logical Positivism (edited book)Kluwer Academic Publishers. 1988.The word "modem" in the title of this book refers primarily to post-medieval discussions, but it also hints at those medieval mo dal theories which were considered modem in contradistinction to ancient conceptions and which in different ways influenced philosophical discussions during the early modem period. The me dieval developments are investigated in the opening paper, 'The Foundations of Modality and Conceivability in Descartes and His Predecessors', by Lilli Alanen and Simo Knuuttila. Boet…Read more
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John Buridan: Portrait of a Fourteenth-Century Arts Master, by Jack Zupko (review)Ars Disputandi 4. 2004.
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80Emotions in ancient and medieval philosophyOxford University Press. 2004.Emotions are the focus of intense debate both in contemporary philosophy and psychology, and increasingly also in the history of ideas. Simo Knuuttila presents a comprehensive survey of philosophical theories of emotion from Plato to Renaissance times, combining rigorous philosophical analysis with careful historical reconstruction. The first part of the book covers the conceptions of Plato and Aristotle and later ancient views from Stoicism to Neoplatonism and, in addition, their reception and …Read more
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18Trinitarian LogicIn H. Lagerlund (ed.), Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy, Springer. pp. 1335--1337. 2010.
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Anselm on ModalityIn Brian Davies & Brian Leftow (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Anselm, Cambridge University Press. pp. 111-131. 2004.
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95Supposition and Predication in Medieval Trinitarian LogicVivarium 51 (1-4): 260-274. 2013.Many fourteenth-century logicians took affirmative propositions to maintain that the subject term and the predicate term stand or supposit for the same. This is called the identity theory of predication by historians and praedicatio identica by Paul of Venice and others. The identity theory of predication was an important part of early fourteenth-century Trinitarian discussions as well, but what was called praedicatio identica by Duns Scotus and his followers in this context was something differ…Read more