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4IntroductionIn Charles Bolyard & Rondo Keele (eds.), Later Medieval Metaphysics: Ontology, Language, and Logic, Fordham University Press. pp. 1-8. 2013.
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14 Accidents in Scotus’s Metaphysics CommentaryIn Charles Bolyard & Rondo Keele (eds.), Later Medieval Metaphysics: Ontology, Language, and Logic, Fordham University Press. pp. 84-100. 2013.
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10Augustine on Error and Knowing That One Does Not KnowIn Andreas Speer & Maxime Mauriège (eds.), Irrtum – Error – Erreur (Miscellanea Mediaevalia Band 40), De Gruyter. pp. 3-18. 2018.
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3Medieval Epistemology: Augustine, Aquinas, and OckhamIn Stephen Cade Hetherington (ed.), Epistemology: The Key Thinkers, Continuum. pp. 99-123. 2012.The epistemological views of medieval philosophers Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, and William of Ockham are considered in turn. First, Augustine’s refutation of skepticism from the Contra Academicos and his positive account of knowing Divine Ideas from the De Magistro are outlined, after which there is a brief discussion of his Vital Attention theory of sensation. Second, Aquinas’s account of self-evident propositions, sensation, concept formation, knowledge of singulars, and self-knowledge from t…Read more
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18Augustine on Error and Knowing That One Does Not KnowIn Andreas Speer & Maxime Mauriège (eds.), Irrtum – Error – Erreur (Miscellanea Mediaevalia Band 40), De Gruyter. pp. 3-18. 2018.In this paper, I examine Augustine’s response to two Socratic statements: his exhortation for us to know ourselves, and his claim that he knows only that he knows nothing. Augustine addresses these statements in many works, but I focus in particular on his discussion of error in Contra Academicos, and his account of self-knowing (and not-knowing) in De Trinitate (DT). For Augustine, error can occur in at least four distinct ways, and one of his main purposes in Contra Academicos is to show that …Read more
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1John Duns Scotus on MatterIn Patricia Hanna (ed.), An Anthology of Philosophical Studies, Vol. 3, Atiner. 2009.
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Accidents in Scotus’s Metaphysics CommentaryIn Charles Bolyard & Rondo Keele (eds.), Later Medieval Metaphysics: Ontology, Language, and Logic, Fordham University Press. 2013.
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24Henry of Harclay on Knowing Many Things at OnceRecherches de Theologie Et Philosophie Medievales 81 (1): 75-93. 2014.
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Knowledge, Certainty, and Propositions Per Se Notae: A Study of Peter AuriolDissertation, Indiana University. 1999.This work examines the combined epistemological and psychological theory of Peter Auriol , a French scholastic philosopher and theologian. Though not himself a skeptic, Auriol's concerns with sensory illusions force him to maintain a distinction between the real being of extramental objects and the apparent or objective being of entities existing only in the mind. This view had a profound impact on his contemporaries, especially William of Ockham, and thus establishes Auriol's place at the foref…Read more
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13Letter to the EditorProceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 81 (2). 2007.
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38Truth and Certainty in Peter AuriolVivarium 53 (1): 45-64. 2015.This paper investigates the nature of truth and certainty according to the French Franciscan theologian Peter Auriol. In the first section, I attempt to harmonize a few different sections of Auriol’s Scriptum on book i of the Sentences: the accounts of truth as conformity in question 2 of the Prologue and question 10 of distinction 2, and the account of truth as quiddity in question 3 of distinction 19. In the second section, I explore the notion of certainty in question 1 of the Prologue. Here,…Read more
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1E.M. Macierowski, Thomas Aquinas's Earliest Treatment Of The Divine Essence (review)Philosophy in Review 20 (2): 84-86. 2000.
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8Later Medieval Metaphysics: Ontology, Language, and Logic (edited book)Fordham University Press. 2013.This book begins with standard ontological topics--such as the nature of existence--and of metaphysics generally, such as the status of universals, form, and accidents. What is the proper subject matter of metaphysical speculation? Are essence and existence really distinct in bodies? Does the body lose its unifying form at death? Can an accident of a substance exist in separation from that substance? Are universals real, and, if so, are they anything more than general concepts? Among the figures…Read more
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2Joseph Bobik, Aquinas on Matter and Form and the Elements (review)Philosophy in Review 20 (2): 84-86. 2000.
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1John I. Jenkins, Knowledge and Faith in Thomas Aquinas (review)Philosophy in Review 19 (5): 347-349. 1999.
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12Perception, Sensibility, and Moral Motivation in Augustine: A Stoic-Platonic Synthesis by Sarah Catherine Byers (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 52 (1): 164-165. 2014.
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178Augustine, epicurus, and external world skepticismJournal of the History of Philosophy 44 (2): 157-168. 2006.: In Contra Academicos 3.11.24, Augustine responds to skepticism about the existence of the external world by arguing that what appears to be the world — as he terms things, the "quasi-earth" and "quasi-sky" — cannot be doubted. While some (e.g., M. Burnyeat and G. Matthews) interpret this passage as a subjectivist response to global skepticism, it is here argued that Augustine's debt to Epicurean epistemology and theology, especially as presented in Cicero's De Natura Deorum 1.25.69 - 1.26.74, …Read more
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Areas of Specialization
Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
Metaphysics and Epistemology |