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437“Nothing in Nature Is Naturally a Statue”: William of Ockham on ArtifactsMetaphysics 1 (1): 88-96. 2018.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
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133Nicole Oresme, DualistIn 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. 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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117Stoicism: Traditions and Transformations (edited book)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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105What is the science of the soul? A case study in the evolution of late medieval natural philosophySynthese 110 (2): 297-334. 1997.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
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85The metaphysics and natural philosophy of John Buridan (edited book)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 ...
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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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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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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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39SHARON M. KAYE AND PAUL THOMSON: On Augustine (review)Faith and Philosophy 21 (2): 273-276. 2004.
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37John Buridan, Summulae de Dialectica (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 43 (1): 126-128. 2003.
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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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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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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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27M. J. F. M. Hoenen, "Marsilius of Inghen: Divine Knowledge in Late Medieval Thought" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 32 (2): 301. 1994.
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22John Buridan's Tractatus de Infinito: Quaestiones super Libros Physicorum Secundum Ultimam Lecturam, Liber III, Quaestiones 14-19.John Buridan, J. M. M. H. Thijssen (review)Speculum 69 (2): 438-439. 1994.
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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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21Mary J. Gregor 1928-1994Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 68 (5). 1995.Brief biography of Mary Gregor
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19This 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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18Notion and Object: Aspects of Late Medieval Epistemology (review)Philosophical Review 101 (3): 641. 1992.
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17European and American PhilosophersIn Robert L. Arrington (ed.), A Companion to the Philosophers, Blackwell. 2017.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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