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34Weakness of the Will in Medieval Thought (review)Review of Metaphysics 49 (2): 434-435. 1995.This book sketches the history of medieval discussions of the phenomenon Aristotle calls "akrasia". It aims at refuting the widespread prejudice that there was no medieval problem of akrasia because the Christian and Augustinian conception of the will as an autonomous power makes the idea of an agent knowingly acting against reason unproblematic. On the contrary, the author shows that interest in akrasia spanned the Middle Ages, though the parameters of the debate changed after the Nicomachean E…Read more
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59Michiel Streijger, Paul J. J. M. Bakker, and Johannes M. M. H. Thijssen, eds. John Buridan, Quaestiones super libros “De generatione et corruption” Aristotelis: A Critical Edition with an Introduction. History of Science and Medicine Library 17 . Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2011. Pp. ix+269. $141.00 (review)Hopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 2 (1): 192-195. 2012.
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29Horse Sense and Human Sense: The Heterogeneity of Sense Perception in Buridan's Philosophical PsychologyIn Petra Simo Kärkkäinen Knuuttila (ed.), Theories of Perception in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy, . pp. 171--186. 2008.
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21On certitudeIn J. M. M. H. Thijssen & Jack Zupko (eds.), The Metaphysics and Natural Philosophy of John Buridan, Brill. pp. 165-182. 2001.
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15The Art and Science of Logic: A Translation of the Summulae dialectices with notes and introduction by Roger Bacon, and: On Signs (Opus maius, Part 3, Chapter 2) by Roger Bacon (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 52 (4): 843-844. 2014.
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37John Buridan, Summulae de Dialectica (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 43 (1): 126-128. 2003.
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18Notion and Object: Aspects of Late Medieval Epistemology (review)Philosophical Review 101 (3): 641. 1992.
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21Mary J. Gregor 1928-1994Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 68 (5). 1995.Brief biography of Mary Gregor
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52Nicolai oresme expositio et quaestiones in Aristotelis de Anima. [Ed. par] Benoit Patar, edition, étude critique (louvain-la-neuve: Éditions de l'institut superieur de philosophie, 1995; louvain/paris: Éditions Peeters (philosophes médiévaux, tome XXXII), 1995), 180* + 619 pp. 4900 bef isbn 90 6831 668 0 (isp), 2 87723 181 X (Peeters) (review)Early Science and Medicine 3 (3): 258-260. 1998.
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29John Buridan's Tractatus de infinito: Quaestiones super Libros physicorum secundum ultimam lecturam, liber III, quaestiones 14–19 (review)Speculum 69 (2): 438-439. 1994.
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48How Are Souls Related to Bodies? A Study of John BuridanReview of Metaphysics 46 (3). 1993.MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHERS HAD NO SINGLE RESPONSE to the difficult question of how souls are related to the bodies they animate. In this respect, the theory of psychological inherence advanced by the noted Parisian philosopher John Buridan is a case in point. Buridan offers different accounts of the soul-body relation, depending upon which of two main varieties of natural, animate substance he is explaining. In the case of human beings, he defends a version of immanent dualism: the thesis that the so…Read more
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10John Buridan: Portrait of a Fourteenth-Century Arts MasterNotre Dame. 2003.John Buridan was the most famous philosophy teacher of his time, and probably the most influential. In this important new book, Jack Zupko offers the first systematic exposition of Buridan's thought to appear in any language. Zupko uses Buridan's own conception of the order and practice of philosophy to depict the most salient features of his thought, beginning with his views on the nature of language and logic and then illustrating their application to a series of topics in metaphysics, natural…Read more
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7Science et nature: La théorie buridanienne du savoir by Joël BiardJournal of the History of Philosophy 53 (4): 786-787. 2015.
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12Norman KretzmannBochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch Fur Antike Und Mittelalter 4 (1): 213-217. 1999.
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Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics |
Philosophy of Religion |
Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Epistemology |
Logic and Philosophy of Logic |
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |