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Analytical Thomism: Traditions in Dialogue, edited by Craig Paterson and Matthew S. Pugh (review)Ars Disputandi 7. 2007.
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1Relations and the Trinity: The Case of Henry of Ghent and John Duns ScotusDocumenti E Studi Sulla Tradizione Filosofica Medievale 16 1-21. 2005.Dopo una premessa in cui si precisano le finalità dell'articolo e si fa il punto sugli antecedenti della discussione, concentrandosi sulle trattazioni teologiche degli autori del sec. XII, l'A. studia gli sviluppi offerti da Enrico di Gand alla teoria agostiniana delle relazioni applicata alle tre persone della Trinità. La seconda parte dello studio è dedicata alla risposta elaborata da Duns Scoto alla posizione di Enrico: fondandosi su differenti elaborazioni della teoria della relazione , i du…Read more
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136Four-dimensionalism and identity across time: Henry of ghent vs. BonaventureJournal of the History of Philosophy 37 (3): 393-414. 1999.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Four-Dimensionalism and Identity Across Time: Henry of Ghent vs. BonaventureRichard CrossModern accounts of the identity of an object across time tend to fall roughly into two basic types.Let us say that something persists ıff, somehow or other, it exists at various times; this is the neutral word. Something perdures iff it persists by having different temporal parts, or stages, at different times, though no one part of it is wholly …Read more
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Vehicle externalism and the metaphysics of the incarnation: a medieval contributionIn Anna Marmodoro & Jonathan Hill (eds.), The Metaphysics of the Incarnation, Oxford University Press. 2011.
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8Selected Writings on Ethics, edited and translated by Thomas Williams (review)Studies in Christian Ethics 32 (4): 573-575. 2017.
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84Divisibility, Communicability, and Predicability in Duns Scotus’s Theories of the Common NatureJournal of Nietzsche Studies 11 (1): 43-63. 2003.
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103Book Review: Love of Self and Love of God in Thirteenth-Century Ethics (review)Studies in Christian Ethics 20 (1): 146-150. 2007.
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20Theories of Cognition in the Later Middle Ages (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 38 (4): 445-446. 1998.
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15Two Models of the Trinity?Heythrop Journal 43 (3): 275-294. 2002.Contrary to a common assumption, I argue that there is full agreement between East and West on the issue of the relation between the divine essence and the divine persons. I defend this claim by using the understanding of universals found in D. M. Armstrong to cast light on the theories. Taking Gregory of Nyssa and John of Damascus as representatives of the Eastern tradition, I show that this tradition sees the divine essence as a numerically singular object that is wholly present in each divine…Read more
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29Tobias Hoffmann creatura intellecta: Die ideen und possibilien bei duns scotus mit ausblick auf Franz Von mayronis, poncius und mastrius. (Beiträge zur geschichte der philosophie und theologie Des mittelalters, neue folge, 60) (münster: Aschendorff, 2002). Pp. V+358. € 46.00 (pbk). ISBN 3 402 04011 (review)Religious Studies 39 (4): 489-491. 2003.
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110The eternity of the world and the distinction between creation and conservationReligious Studies 42 (4): 403-416. 2006.According to an important set of medieval arguments, it is impossible to make a distinction between creation and conservation on the assumption of a beginningless universe. The argument is that, on such an assumption, either God is never causally sufficient for the existence of the universe, or, if He is at one time causally sufficient for the existence of the universe, He is at all times causally sufficient for the universe, and occasionalism is true. I defend the claim that these arguments are…Read more
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61Review: The Philosophy of John Duns Scotus (review)Journal of Scottish Philosophy 8 (2): 211-213. 2010.
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19Nominalism and the Christology of William of OckhamRecherches de Theologie Et Philosophie Medievales 58 (n/a): 126-156. 1991.
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8La volonté de croire au Moyen-Âge. Les theories de la foi dans la pensée scolastique du XIIIe siècle by Nicolas FaucherJournal of the History of Philosophy 60 (2): 338-340. 2022.This excellent book provides a novel analysis of medieval theories of faith, using as its conceptual basis the notion of doxastic voluntarism: the thought that belief is in some sense in our power to choose. This notion fits very neatly with medieval accounts, since, other than in cases in which the intellect's assent is compelled, the medieval philosophers all maintained that assent to a given proposition—paradigmatically the supernatural claims of Catholic Christianity, the principal interest …Read more
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17Individuation in Scholasticism: The Later Middle Ages and the Counter-Reformation 1150-1650International Philosophical Quarterly 35 (3): 349-351. 1995.
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101Henry of ghent on the reality of non-existing possibles – revisitedArchiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 92 (2): 115-132. 2010.According to a well-known interpretation, Henry of Ghent holds that possible but non-existent essences – items merely with what Henry labels ‘ esse essentiae ’ – have some reality external to the divine mind, but short of actual existence ( esse existentiae ). I argue that this reading of Henry is mistaken. Furthermore, Henry identifies any essence, considered independently of its existence as a universal concept or as instantiated in a particular as an item that has some kind of reality in the …Read more
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26Henry of Ghent on the Reality of Non-Existing Possibles – RevisitedArchiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 92 (2): 115-132. 2010.According to a well-known interpretation, Henry of Ghent holds that possible but non-existent essences – items merely with what Henry labels ‘esse essentiae’ – have some reality external to the divine mind, but short of actual existence (esse existentiae). I argue that this reading of Henry is mistaken. Furthermore, Henry identifies any essence, considered independently of its existence as a universal concept or as instantiated in a particular as an item that has some kind of reality in the divi…Read more
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74Form and Universal in BoethiusBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 20 (3): 439-458. 2012.Contrary to the claims of recent commentators, I argue that Boethius holds a modified version of the Ammonian three-fold universal (transcendent, immanent, and conceptual). He probably identifies transcendent universals as divine ideas, and accepts too forms immanent in corporeal particulars, most likely construing these along the Aphrodisian lines that he hints at in a well-known passage from his second commentary on Porphyry's Isagoge. Boethius never states the theory of the three-fold form ou…Read more
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124Duns Scotus on Eternity and TimelessnessFaith and Philosophy 14 (1): 3-25. 1997.Scotus consistently holds that eternity is to be understood as timelessness. In his early Lectura, he criticizes Aquinas’ account of eternity on the grounds that (1) it entails collapsing past and future into the present, and (2) it entails a B-theory of time, according to which past, present and future are all ontologically on a par with each other. Scotus later comes to accept something like Aquinas’ account of God’s timelessness and the B-theory of time which it entails. Scotus also offers a …Read more
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145Atonement without satisfactionReligious Studies 37 (4): 397-416. 2001.According to Swinburne, one way of dealing with the guilt that attaches to a morally bad action is satisfaction, consisting of repentance, apology, reparation, and penance. Thus, Christ's life and death make atonement for human sin by providing a reparation which human beings would otherwise be unable to pay. I argue that the nature of God's creative activity entails that human beings can by themselves make reparation for their sins, merely by apology. So there is no need for additional reparati…Read more
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7A Trinitarian Debate in Early Fourtheenth-Century ChristologyRecherches de Theologie Et Philosophie Medievales 70 (2): 233-274. 2003.John Baconthorpe canvasses a number of views on the question of the identity of the feature of a divine person that enables that person to become incarnate. The possible features are: the divine essence, the personal property, or the union of both. The views considered are those of Duns Scotus, Durandus of Saint-Pourcain, Peter Auriol, and an Oxonian theologian Walter Burdon, none of whose writing otherwise survive. Baconthorpe's own view is that the union of essence and person is the relevant i…Read more
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21The Metaphysical Thought of Thomas Aquinas (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 42 (1): 128-130. 2002.
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19The Routledge Companion to Medieval Philosophy (edited book)Routledge. 2021.Like any other group of philosophers, scholastic thinkers from the Middle Ages disagreed about even the most fundamental of concepts. With their characteristic style of rigorous semantic and logical analysis, they produced a wide variety of diverse theories about a huge number of topics. The Routledge Companion to Medieval Philosophy offers readers an outstanding survey of many of these diverse theories, on a wide array of subjects. Its 35 chapters, all written exclusively for this Companion by…Read more
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47The Physics of Duns Scotus: The Scientific Context of a Theological VisionClarendon Press. 1998.Duns Scotus, along with Thomas Aquinas and William of Ockham, was one of the three most talented and influential of the medieval schoolmen, and a highly original thinker. This book examines the central concepts in his physics, including matter, space, time, and unity.
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134Two models of the trinity?Heythrop Journal 43 (3). 2002.Contrary to a common assumption, I argue that there is full agreement between East and West on the issue of the relation between the divine essence and the divine persons. I defend this claim by using the understanding of universals found in D. M. Armstrong to cast light on the theories. Taking Gregory of Nyssa and John of Damascus as representatives of the Eastern tradition, I show that this tradition sees the divine essence as a numerically singular object that is wholly present in each divine…Read more
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History of Western Philosophy |
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History of Western Philosophy |