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    Among medieval Aristotelians, William of Ockham defends a minimalist account of artifacts, assigning to statues and houses and beds a unity that is merely spatial or locational rather than metaphysical. Thus, in contrast to his predecessors, Thomas Aquinas and Duns Scotus, he denies that artifacts become such by means of an advening ‘artificial form’ or ‘form of the whole’ or any change that might tempt us to say that we are dealing with a new thing (res). Rather, he understands artifacts as p…Read more
  •  213
    Nicole Oresme, Dualist
    In Fabrizio Amerini, Simone Fellina & Andrea Strazzoni (eds.), _Tra antichità e modernità. Studi di storia della filosofia medievale e rinascimentale_. Raccolti da Fabrizio Amerini, Simone Fellina e Andrea Strazzoni, E-theca Onlineopenaccess Edizioni, Università Degli Studi Di Torino. pp. 433-465. 2019.
    According to Nicole Oresme (c. 1320–1382), human beings, unlike all other animals, consist of two substances: a thinking substance and a sensing substance. This paper presents and explores the arguments Oresme uses to arrive at this position, which is unusual in medieval philosophical psychology and which at least superficially – though their methods are completely different – resembles what Descartes concluded about the nature of the human soul and body two and a half centuries later. The paper…Read more
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    This paper aims at a partial rehabilitation of E. A. Moody''s characterization of the 14th century as an age of rising empiricism, specifically by contrasting the conception of the natural science of psychology found in the writings of a prominent 13th-century philosopher (Thomas Aquinas) with those of two 14th-century philosophers (John Buridan and Nicole Oresme). What emerges is that if the meaning of empiricism can be disengaged from modern and contemporary paradigms, and understood more broa…Read more
  •  88
    The metaphysics and natural philosophy of John Buridan (edited book)
    with J. M. M. H. Thijssen
    Brill. 2001.
    This book is a collection of papers on the metaphysics and natural philosophy of John Buridan (ca. 1295-1361), one of the most innovative and influential ...
  •  61
    Stoicism: Traditions and Transformations (edited book)
    with Steven K. Strange
    Cambridge University Press. 2004.
    Stoicism is now widely recognised as one of the most important philosophical schools of ancient Greece and Rome. But how did it influence Western thought after Greek and Roman antiquity? The question is a difficult one to answer because the most important Stoic texts have been lost since the end of the classical period, though not before early Christian thinkers had borrowed their ideas and applied them to discussions ranging from dialectic to moral theology. Later philosophers became familiar w…Read more
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    Buridan and skepticism
    Journal of the History of Philosophy 31 (2): 191-221. 1993.
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    How Are Souls Related to Bodies? A Study of John Buridan
    Review 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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    Steven K. Strange 1950‐2009
    with Kevin Corrigan, Richard Patterson, Garth Tissol, and Peter Wakefield
    International Journal of the Platonic Tradition 4 (1): 1-3. 2010.
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    European and American Philosophers
    with John Marenbon, Douglas Kellner, Richard D. Parry, Gregory Schufreider, Ralph McInerny, Andrea Nye, R. M. Dancy, Vernon J. Bourke, A. A. Long, James F. Harris, Thomas Oberdan, Paul S. MacDonald, Véronique M. Fóti, F. Rosen, James Dye, Pete A. Y. Gunter, Lisa J. Downing, W. J. Mander, Peter Simons, Maurice Friedman, Robert C. Solomon, Nigel Love, Mary Pickering, Andrew Reck, Simon J. Evnine, Iakovos Vasiliou, John C. Coker, Georges Dicker, James Gouinlock, Paul J. Welty, Gianluigi Oliveri, Tom Rockmore, Wayne M. Martin, Ladelle McWhorter, Hans-Johann Glock, Georgia Warnke, John Haldane, Joseph S. Ullian, Steven Rieber, David Ingram, Nick Fotion, George Rainbolt, Thomas Sheehan, Gerald J. Massey, Barbara D. Massey, David E. Cooper, David Gauthier, James M. Humber, J. N. Mohanty, Michael H. Dearmey, Oswald O. Schrag, Ralf Meerbote, George J. Stack, John P. Burgess, Paul Hoyningen-Huene, Nicholas Jolley, Adriaan T. Peperzak, E. J. Lowe, William D. Richardson, Stephen Mulhall, and C.
    In Robert L. Arrington (ed.), A Companion to the Philosophers, Wiley-blackwell. 1991.
    Peter Abelard (1079–1142 ce) was the most wide‐ranging philosopher of the twelfth century. He quickly established himself as a leading teacher of logic in and near Paris shortly after 1100. After his affair with Heloise, and his subsequent castration, Abelard became a monk, but he returned to teaching in the Paris schools until 1140, when his work was condemned by a Church Council at Sens. His logical writings were based around discussion of the “Old Logic”: Porphyry's Isagoge, aristotle'S Categ…Read more
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    John Buridan, Summulae de Dialectica (review)
    International Philosophical Quarterly 43 (1): 126-128. 2003.
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    SHARON M. KAYE AND PAUL THOMSON: On Augustine (review)
    Faith and Philosophy 21 (2): 273-276. 2004.
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    Freedom of choice in Buridan's moral psychology
    Mediaeval Studies 57 (1): 75-99. 1995.
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    Weakness 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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    John Buridan
    Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2008.
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    Nominalism Meets Indivisibilism
    Journal of Nietzsche Studies 3 158-185. 1993.
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    Notion and Object: Aspects of Late Medieval Epistemology (review)
    with Alexander Broadie
    Philosophical Review 101 (3): 641. 1992.
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    This book provides the Latin text and its annotated English translation of the question-commentary of John Buridan (ca. 1300-1360) on Aristotle’s “On the Soul”. Buridan was the most influential Parisian nominalist philosopher of his time. His work speaks across centuries to our modern concerns in the philosophy of mind. This volume completes the project of a volume published earlier in the same series: “Questions on the Soul by John Buridan and Others”. An appealing book for scholars of Aristotl…Read more
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    Thomas of erfurt
    Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2008.
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    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:Natural Philosophy: On Retrieving a Lost Disciplinary Imaginary by Alister E. McGRATHJack ZupkoMcGRATH, Alister E. Natural Philosophy: On Retrieving a Lost Disciplinary Imaginary. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. viii + 248 pp. Cloth, $39.95This book attempts to retrieve and reimagine the tradition of natural philosophy as an antidote for what the author sees as the fragmented, instrumentalized, and ethically diseng…Read more
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    Mary J. Gregor 1928-1994
    with William S. Snyder and Allen W. Wood
    Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 68 (5). 1995.
    Brief biography of Mary Gregor
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    On certitude
    In 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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    Introduction
    American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 97 (2): 153-160. 2023.