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22A companion to the philosophy of Robert Kilwardby (edited book)Brill. 2012.In this book we present the first study of all of his philosophical works from logic and grammar to metaphysics and ethics. It contains a substantial introduction about Kilwardby's life and work as well as a comprehensive bibliography.
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25Thierry of ChartresIn H. Lagerlund (ed.), Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy, Springer. pp. 1279--1279. 2011.
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9Routledge Companion to Sixteenth Century Philosophy (edited book)Routledge. 2014.Sixteenth Century philosophy was a unique synthesis of several philosophical frameworks, a blend of old and new, including but not limited to scholasticism, humanism, Neo-Thomism, Aristotelianism, and Stoicism. It was a century that witnessed culturally and philosophically significant moments whose impact still is felt today—some examples include the emergence of Jesuits, the height of the witchcraze, the Protestant Reformation, the rise of philosophical skepticism, Pietro Pomponazzi’s controver…Read more
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20From a Topical Point of View : Dialectic in Anselm of Canterbury’s (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 46 (2): 317-318. 2008.For a long time scholars ignored Anselm of Canterbury’s dialogue, De grammatico. It was not until D. P. Henry’s investigations in the 1960s and 70s that it was seriously studied. He showed that it was an important work, but his interpretation was peculiar. The main point of it was to show that Anselm thought traditional logic inadequate for analyzing logical problems and that he wanted to establish a new language that was better suited for the task. Henry also argued that the logical system of t…Read more
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7Philosophical Languages in the Seventeenth Century: Delgarno, Wilkins, Leibniz (review)Isis 97 352-353. 2006.
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25Pietro d'Abano and the Anatomy of PerceptionIn Petra Simo Kärkkäinen Knuuttila (ed.), Theories of Perception in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy, . pp. 117--130. 2008.
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16Philosophical psychology in 1500 : Erfurt, Padua and BolognaIn Sara Heinämaa & Martina Reuter (eds.), Psychology and philosophy : inquiries into the soul from late scholasticism to contemporary thought, Springer. 2009.The chapter gives a general description of philosophical psychology as it was practiced and taught in the sixteenth century at three of the most important universities of the time, the universities of Erfurt, Padua, and Bologna. Contrary to received notions of the Renaissance it argues that the sixteenth-century philosophical psychology was tightly bound to the Aristotelian tradition. At the University of Erfurt, philosophical psychology was developed with strong adherence to the basic doctrines…Read more
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35Emotions and choice from boethius to descartes (edited book)kluwer. 2002.The essays in this book give the first comprehensive picture of the medieval development of philosophical theories concerning the nature of emotions and the influence they have on human choice.
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Material substanceIn John Marenbon (ed.), Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy, Oxford University Press. 2012.
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8Singular Terms and Vague Concepts in Late Medieval Mental Language TheoryIn Gyula Klima (ed.), Intentionality, Cognition, and Mental Representation in Medieval Philosophy, Fordham University. pp. 122-140. 2015.
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84Avicenna and ūsī on Modal LogicHistory and Philosophy of Logic 30 (3): 227-239. 2009.In this article, the author studies some central concepts in Avicenna's and sī's modal logics as presented in Avicenna's Al-Ish r t wa'l Tan īh t ( Pointers and Reminders ) and in sī's commentary. In this work, Avicenna introduces some remarkable distinctions in order to interpret Aristotle's modal syllogistic in the Prior Analytics . The author outlines a new interpretation of absolute sentences as temporally indefinite sentences and argues on the basis of this that Avicenna seems to subscribe …Read more
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67The Philosophy of Francisco Surez (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2012.During the seventeenth century Francisco Surez was considered one of the greatest philosophers of the age: he is now reemerging as a major subject of critical and historical investigation. A leading team of scholars explore his work on ethics, metaphysics, ontology, and theology. This will be the starting-point for future research on Surez
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1Modality Matters: Twenty-Five Essays in Honour of Krister Segerberg (edited book)Uppsala Philosophical Studies 53. 2006.
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70Modal syllogistics in the Middle AgesBrill. 2000.This book presents the first study of the development of the theory of modal syllogistic in the Middle Ages.
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45The Changing Face of Aristotelian Empiricism in the Fourteenth CenturyQuaestio 10 315-327. 2010.The view of substance defended by William Ockham and John Buridan in the fourteenth century differs radically from the traditional Aristotelian or Thomistic view of substance. Their metaphysical position of substance not only influences the development of natural philosophy, it also changes the preconditions for cognition and epistemology. In this paper I examine the implications of this view on Buridan’s epistemology and particularly on the compatibility of his view of substance with his claim …Read more
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74Rethinking the history of skepticism: the missing medieval background (edited book)Brill. 2009.This book aims at beginning the rewriting of the history of skepticism by highlightening the medieval sources of the modern skeptical discussions.
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274John Buridan and the problems of dualism in the early fourteenth centuryJournal of the History of Philosophy 42 (4): 369-387. 2004.: In this paper I argue that the famous problems of dualism between mind (soul) and body, that is, the problems of interaction and unification, concerned philosophers already in a medieval Aristotelian tradition. The problems, although traceable earlier, become particularly visible after William Ockham in the early fourteenth century, and in formulating his own position on the animal and human souls I argue that Buridan realized these problems and laid down the only views on the soul he thought …Read more
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69From a Topical Point of View : Dialectic in Anselm of Canterbury’sJournal of the History of Philosophy 46 (2). 2008.For a long time scholars ignored Anselm of Canterbury’s dialogue, De grammatico. It was not until D. P. Henry’s investigations in the 1960s and 70s that it was seriously studied. He showed that it was an important work, but his interpretation was peculiar. The main point of it was to show that Anselm thought traditional logic inadequate for analyzing logical problems and that he wanted to establish a new language that was better suited for the task. Henry also argued that the logical system of t…Read more
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138Al-Ghazālī on the Form and Matter of the SyllogismsVivarium 48 (1): 193-214. 2010.Al-Ghazālī's Maqāsid al-falāsifa is an intelligent reworking of Avicenna's Dānesh-name . It was assumed by Latin scholastics that the Maqāsid contained the views of Al-Ghazālī himself. Very well read in Latin translation, it was the basic text from which the Latin authors gained their knowledge of Arabic logic. This article examines the views on the form and matter of the syllogism given in the Maqāsid and considers how they would have been viewed by a Latin reader in the thirteenth century
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44Willing EvilAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 94 (2): 305-322. 2020.In this article, I present two virtually unknown sixteenth-century views of human freedom, that is, the views of Bartolomaeus de Usingen and Jodocus Trutfetter on the one hand and John Mair on the other. Their views serve as a natural context and partial background to the more famous debate on human freedom between Martin Luther and Erasmus of Rotterdam from 1524–1526. Usingen and Trutfetter were Luther’s philosophy teachers in Erfurt. In a passage from Book III of John Mair’s commentary on Aris…Read more
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Causal Powers in Science: Blending Historical and Conceptual Perspectives (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2021.