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    In this paper, I intend to reconstruct Ockham’s semantics of the categories in order to prove first that his semantics is consistent. Second, Ockham is not skeptical about the possibility to derive the categories from primitives. According to Ockham, one must accept two principles in order to derive the categories. The first is the principle of ‘in quid’ predication, according to which a name of category can be predicated ‘in quid’ of a determined class of terms. The second is the principle of t…Read more
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    Metaphor and mental language in late-medieval nominalism
    Bochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch Fur Antike Und Mittelalter 22 (1): 136-167. 2019.
    In this paper, I intend to examine the conception of metaphor developed by fourteenth-century nominalist philosophers, in particular William of Ockham and John Buridan, but also the Ockhamist philosophers who were condemned by the 1340 statute of the faculty of arts of the University of Paris. According to these philosophers, metaphor is a transfer of meaning from one word to another. This transfer is based on some similarity, and is intentionally produced by a speaker. My aim is to study whethe…Read more
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    Review of Henrik Lagerlund and Benjamin Hill: Routledge Companion to Sixteenth Century Philosophy (review)
    Hopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 9 (1): 186-189. 2019.
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    This book features 20 essays that explore how Latin medieval philosophers and theologians from Anselm to Buridan conceived of habitus, as well as detailed studies of the use of the concept by Augustine and of the reception of the medieval doctrines of habitus in Suàrez and Descartes. Habitus are defined as stable dispositions to act or think in a certain way. This definition was passed down to the medieval thinkers from Aristotle and, to a lesser extent, Augustine, and played a key role in many …Read more
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    Le principe d'économie d'après Guillaume d'Ockham
    Franciscan Studies 73 169-197. 2015.
    Le but de cet article est de proposer une nouvelle interprétation de la nature et de la fonction du principe d’économie tel qu’il est formulé et employé par Guillaume d’Ockham. Je défends l’idée que le principe d’économie tel qu’il est employé par Guillaume d’Ockham peut être compris comme un précepte méthodologique à suivre pour procéder à une inférence vers la meilleure explication. Je me propose donc de répondre aux deux questions suivantes. En quoi un argument d’économie consiste-t-il et que…Read more
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    Hamburg: “Motivation and Normativity of Practical Reasons: Moral Philosophy in the 14th Century”
    with Christoph Grellard and Sonja Schierbaum
    Bulletin de Philosophie Medievale 62 380-387. 2021.
    Bulletin de Philosophie Médiévale, Volume 62, Issue, Page 380-387, January 2020.
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    Hamburg: “Motivation and Normativity of Practical Reasons: Moral Philosophy in the 14th Century”
    with Christoph Grellard and Sonja Schierbaum
    Brepols Publishers: Bulletin de Philosophie Médiévale 62 380-387. 2021.
    Bulletin de Philosophie Médiévale, Volume 62, Issue, Page 380-387, January 2020.
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    Ockham on Habits
    In Nicolas Faucher & Magali Roques (eds.), The Ontology, Psychology and Axiology of Habits (Habitus) in Medieval Philosophy, Springer. pp. 263-283. 2018.
    This paper is dedicated to William of Ockham’s theory of habit, which he considers to be a disposition of a power of the soul. I will argue that Ockham’s view on the relation between a habit and its manifestation sheds new light on his well-known thesis that sensible and intelligible species are not needed to account for cognition. The identity conditions of habits are themselves the ground of their intentionality: there is no way to track a habit from an act of a given kind except by stipulatin…Read more
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    This edited volume presents new lines of research dealing with the language of thought and its philosophical implications in the time of Ockham. It features more than 20 essays that also serve as a tribute to the ground-breaking work of a leading expert in late medieval philosophy: Claude Panaccio. Coverage addresses topics in the philosophy of mind and cognition, concepts, logic and language, action theory, and more. A distinctive feature of this work is that it brings together contributions in…Read more
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    Henrik Lagerlund and Benjamin Hill, eds. The Routledge Companion to Sixteenth Century Philosophy. New York: Routledge, 2017. Pp. 660. $250.00 ; $58.00 (review)
    Hopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 9 (1): 186-189. 2019.
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    English summary: This book attests that a study on the history of philosophy has its place in contemporary debates. This book attempts to reconstruct William of Ockham's position on the nature and function of real definitions in order to show that nominalism does not oblige a particular position on essences. French description: Guillaume d'Ockham, defenseur bien connu du nominalisme, a manifeste un interet soutenu pour les definitions reelles. Cet ouvrage s'efforce de reconstruire sa position su…Read more
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    The Language of Thought in Late Medieval Philosophy (edited book)
    with Jennifer Pelletier
    Springer. 2017.
    This edited volume presents new lines of research dealing with the language of thought and its philosophical implications in the time of Ockham. It features more than 20 essays that also serve as a tribute to the ground-breaking work of a leading expert in late medieval philosophy: Claude Panaccio. Coverage addresses topics in the philosophy of mind and cognition (externalism, mental causation, resemblance, habits, sensory awareness, the psychology, illusion, representationalism), concepts (univ…Read more
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    This chapter consists of a systematic introduction to the nature and function of habitus in Latin medieval philosophy. Over the course of this introduction, several topics are treated: the theoretical necessity to posit habitus; their nature; their causal contribution to the production of internal and external acts; how and why habitus can grow and decay; what makes their unity when they can have multiple objects and work in clusters. Finally, we examine two specific questions: why intellectual …Read more
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    The instant of change in medieval philosophy and beyond (edited book)
    with Frédéric Goubier
    Brill. 2018.
    Since antiquity, philosophers have investigated how change works. If a thing moves from one state to another, when exactly does it start to be in its new state, and when does it cease to be in its former one? In the late Middle Ages, the "problem of the instant of change" was subject to considerable debate and gave rise to sophisticated theories; it became popular and controversial again in the second half of the twentieth century. The studies collected here constitute the first attempt at tackl…Read more
  • Quantification and Measurement of Qualities at the Beginning of the Fourteenth Century. The Case of William of Ockham
    Documenti E Studi Sulla Tradizione Filosofica Medievale 27 347-380. 2016.
    This paper critically examines the debate between William of Ockham and his contemporary Peter Auriol on how to account for the intension and remission of forms. Peter Auriol denies that an added degree of a quality such as the theological virtue of charity could be anything other than something which is neither a universal nor an individual and which cannot be grasped by intuition, but must be posited in order to account for the possibility that an accidental form can vary in intensity. Ockham …Read more