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Thomas Aquinas and John Duns Scotus on Our Natural Knowledge of GodDissertation, Emory University. 2004.In 1277, Stephen Tempier, bishop of Paris, drafted the famous Condemnation of 219 articles in theology and natural philosophy. This Condemnation was a reaction against a group of theologians, led by Siger of Brabant, who were accused of holding that truths of reason could contradict those of revelation. Writing before the Condemnation, which impugned reason's autonomy, Thomas Aquinas critiqued Siger and his followers, and argued that reason could never generate truths that contradict revelation.…Read more
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5The Mastery of Nature, Aspects of Art, Science, and Humanism in the Renaissance by Thomas Da Costa Kaufmann (review)History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 17 (1): 180-181. 1995.
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11Thomas AquinasIn H. Lagerlund (ed.), Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy, Springer. pp. 1279--1287. 2011.
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Hylomorphism and Mereology: Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics Volume 15 (edited book)Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2018.
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Medieval Themes, Medieval and Modern Volume 11: Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics (edited book)Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2014.
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1Scotus: Knowledge of GodInternet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2017.Scotus: Knowledge of God Any discussion of John Duns Scotus on our knowledge of God has to be a discussion of Scotus’s thesis that we have concepts univocal to God and creatures. By this, Scotus means that someone’s idea can equally represent both God and other types of things. This is striking even to … Continue reading Scotus: Knowledge of God →
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58Demonstration and Scientific Knowledge in William of Ockham: A Translation of Summa Logicae III-II: De Syllogismo Demonstrativo, and Selections from the Prologue to the Ordinatio (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 46 (1): 170-172. 2008.Alexander W. Hall - Demonstration and Scientific Knowledge in William of Ockham: A Translation of Summa Logicae III-II: De Syllogismo Demonstrativo, and Selections from the Prologue to the Ordinatio - Journal of the History of Philosophy 46:1 Journal of the History of Philosophy 46.1 170-172 Muse Search Journals This Journal Contents Reviewed by Alexander W. Hall Clayton State University John Lee Longeway, translator. Demonstration and Scientific Knowledge in William of Ockham: A Translation of …Read more
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85Natural theology in the middle agesIn J. H. Brooke, F. Watts & R. R. Manning (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Natural Theology, Oxford Up. pp. 350--57. 2013.The development of natural theology in the Middle Ages was driven by the rebirth experienced by Western Europe beginning in the 1000s owing to the emergence of stable monarchies and reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula. This expansion gave scholars access to the vast libraries of scientific and philosophical literature held in Arabic cultural centres – libraries that contained Aristotelian works on natural, ethical, and metaphysical sciences, which had for centuries been lost to the Latin West. T…Read more
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9Scotus: Knowledge of GodInternet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2017.Scotus: Knowledge of God Any discussion of John Duns Scotus on our knowledge of God has to be a discussion of Scotus’s thesis that we have concepts univocal to God and creatures. By this, Scotus means that someone’s idea can equally represent both God and other types of things. This is striking even to … Continue reading Scotus: Knowledge of God →
Alex Hall
Clayton State University
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Clayton State UniversityProfessor