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5Making wonderful: ideological roots of our eco-catastropheUniversity of Alberta Press. 2023.In Making Wonderful, Martin M. Tweedale tells how an ideology arose in the West that energized the economic expansion that has led to ecological disaster. He takes us back to the rise of cities and autocratic rulers, and analyzes how respect for custom and tradition gave way to the dominance of top-down rational planning and organization. Then came a highly attractive myth of an eventual future in which all of humankind's material and spiritual ills would be banished and life "made wonderful." O…Read more
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8The Logical Interest of the Topics as Seen in AbelardJournal of Symbolic Logic 34 (3): 497-499. 1969.
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10The Reception of Aristotle in the Middle AgesCanadian Journal of Philosophy, Supplementary Volume 17 1-5. 1991.This collection of papers derives from a conference on the reception of Aristotle in the Middle Ages held at the University of Alberta in September, 1990, and organized by the editors. They conceived of the conference in the light of a general view of Aristotle and medieval thought, a statement of which may serve as an introduction to the papers which follow.Within the Greek philosophical tradition Aristotle's works became the focus of commentary and discussion; they became, furthermore, the tex…Read more
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45 Avicenna Latinus on the Ontology of Types and TokensIn Charles Bolyard & Rondo Keele (eds.), Later Medieval Metaphysics: Ontology, Language, and Logic, Fordham University Press. pp. 101-136. 2013.
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39The Tradition of the Topics in the Middle Ages. Niels J. Green-PedersenPhilosophy of Science 54 (3): 486-488. 1987.
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27Otto Bird. The logical interest of the topics as seen in Abelard. The modern Schoolman, vol. 37 no. 1 , pp. 53–57. - Otto Bird. The formalizing of the topics in mediaeval logic. Notre Dame journal of formal logic, vol. 1 , pp. 138–149. - Otto Bird. Topic and consequence in Ockham's logic.Notre Dame journal of formal logic, vol. 2 , pp. 65–78. - Otto Bird. The re-discovery of the Topics. Mind, n.s. vol. 70 , pp. 534–539 (review)Journal of Symbolic Logic 34 (3): 497-499. 1969.
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10Sherwood William of. Treatise on syncategorematic words. Translated with an introduction and notes by Kretzmann Norman. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis 1968, xvii + 173 pp.Kretzmann Norman. Preface. Therein, pp. v–vii.Kretzmann Norman. Translator's introduction. Therein, pp. 3–9 (review)Journal of Symbolic Logic 35 (3): 450-451. 1970.
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1G.R. Evans, Philosophy & Theology In The Middle Ages (review)Philosophy in Review 15 (3): 171-173. 1995.
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William A. Frank and Allan B. Wolter, Duns Scotus, Metaphysician (review)Philosophy in Review 16 254-256. 1996.
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Abelard and the Culmination of the Old LogicIn Norman Kretzmann, Anthony Kenny & Jan Pinborg (eds.), Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. pp. 143--157. 1982.
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95Duns Scotus’s Doctrine on Universals and the Aphrodisian TraditionAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 67 (1): 77-93. 1993.
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60Aristotle's universalsAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 65 (4). 1987.This Article does not have an abstract
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AS McGrade, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Philosophy Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 24 (2): 129-131. 2004.
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36Jeffrey Brower, Kevin Guilfoy (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Abelard (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2004 (10). 2004.
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9Aristotle and His Medieval InterpretersCalgary : University of Calgary Press. 1992.This book is an extensive review & analysis of Aristotelian thought as received & adapted by such medieval commentators as Ammonius, Philoponus, Boethius, al-Farabi, Yahya ibn 'Adi, Avicenna, Albertus Magnus, Thomas Aquinas, Martin of Dacia, Simon of Faversham, John Duns Scotus, Peter of Spain, Robert Kilwardby, William of Ockham, & Giles of Rome. The discussions range from metaphysics to logic, linguistics, & epistemology, encompassing such topics as being, god, causation, actuality, potentiali…Read more
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51Origins of the Medieval Theory That Sensation Is an Immaterial Reception of a FormPhilosophical Topics 20 (2): 215-231. 1992.
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