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    Mind, Metaphysics and Value in the Thomistic and Analytical Traditions
    with John Haldane, James Mcevoy, Michael Dunne, Fergus Kerr, and Brian Davies
    Philosophical Quarterly 54 (216): 469-473. 2004.
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    Henry of Ghent and the Twilight of Divine Illumination
    Review of Metaphysics 49 (1): 49-75. 1995.
    The first doctrine Peckham mentions as being under attack is of undoubtedly the TDI, according to which human beings are illuminated by "the unchangeable light" so as to attain the "eternal rules." This language of light and illumination is of course most closely associated with Augustine, but it permeates the entire Christian medieval tradition. Until Aquinas's time the TDI had played a prominent role in all the most influential medieval theories of knowledge, including those of Anselm, Albert …Read more
  • William Crathorn
    In Jorge J. E. Gracia & Timothy B. Noone (eds.), A Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages, Blackwell. 2005.
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    A Lewisian History of Philosophy
    In Barry Loewer & Jonathan Schaffer (eds.), A Companion to David Lewis, Wiley. 2015.
    For most of the recorded history of philosophy, it has been assumed that an adequate account of language and thought would require postulating abstracta of one sort or another. In this chapter, wielding the bright light of Lewisian metaphysics, the author draws into the open some less well‐known moments from the history of philosophy. Puzzlement over persistence goes back to the beginnings of philosophy, and gave rise to protracted debates between those who were skeptical about whether anything …Read more
  • Philosophy of mind and human nature
    In Brian Davies & Eleonore Stump (eds.), The Oxford handbook of Aquinas, Oxford University Press. 2011.
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    Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy Volume 10 (edited book)
    Oxford University Press. 2022.
    Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy annually collects the best current work in the field of medieval philosophy. The various volumes print original essays, reviews, critical discussions, and editions of texts. The aim is to contribute to an understanding of the full range of themes and problems in all aspects of the field, from late antiquity into the Renaissance, and extending over the Jewish, Islamic, and Christian traditions. Volume 10 ranges widely over this terrain, including Christina Va…Read more
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    The Failures of Philosophy: A Historical Essay
    Australasian Journal of Philosophy 100 (4): 842-845. 2022.
    After four massive scholarly volumes surveying the successes of modern science, Stephen Gaukroger turns here to an ambitious but slight volume on philosophy’s failures. It’s a curious book, in part...
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    Old Bad Attitudes
    Philosophers' Imprint 22 (n/a). 2022.
    The systematic study of male misogyny began with Christine de Pizan at the start of the fifteenth century. Although her work has generally been neglected within the history of philosophy, her ideas illuminate many questions of pressing current philosophical concern, including the nature of epistemic injustice, the prospects for an individualistic methodology in social theory, and the epistemology of disagreement.
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    Oxford studies in medieval philosophy volume 9 (edited book)
    Oxford University Press. 2021.
    Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy annually collects the best current work in the field of medieval philosophy. The various volumes print original essays, reviews, critical discussions, and editions of texts. The aim is to contribute to an understanding of the full range of themes and problems in all aspects of the field, from late antiquity into the Renaissance, and extending over the Jewish, Islamic, and Christian traditions. Volume 9 ranges widely over this terrain, including Mark Kalderon…Read more
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    It is seven hundred years since Peter of John Olivi's death, and all of modernity has forgotten his legacy. All? Well, not entirely. One small village of indomitable Gauls still holds out against the forces of oblivion. While the empire of English-language scholarship has largely let Olivi's creative and influential work go unedited, untranslated, and unstudied, this hearty band of French scholars has persisted in exploring the fundamentals of his thought.This latest contribution focuses on some…Read more
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    Where Socratic Akrasia Meets the Platonic Good
    Journal of the History of Philosophy 59 (1): 1-21. 2021.
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    Bias and interpersonal skepticism
    Noûs 56 (1): 154-175. 2022.
    Recent philosophy has paid considerable attention to the way our biases are liable to encroach upon our cognitive lives, diminishing our capacity to know and unjustly denigrating the knowledge of others. The extent of the bias, and the range of domains to which it applies, has struck some as so great as to license talk of a new form of skepticism. I argue that these depressing consequences are real and, in some ways, even more intractable than has previously been recognized. For the difficulties…Read more
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    The Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy 2 Volume Set (edited book)
    Cambridge University Press. 2009.
    The Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy comprises over fifty specially commissioned essays by experts on the philosophy of this period. Starting in the late eighth century, with the renewal of learning some centuries after the fall of the Roman Empire, a sequence of chapters takes the reader through developments in many and varied fields, including logic and language, natural philosophy, ethics, metaphysics, and theology. Close attention is paid to the context of medieval philosophy, with d…Read more
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    Aquinas
    Mind 114 (453): 203-206. 2005.
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    On EvilOn Evil (review)
    Review of Metaphysics 57 (3): 599-600. 2004.
    After an initial, highly difficult question on the metaphysics of the bad, Aquinas turns his attention to bad action, and then very quickly turns to focus on the sort of bad actions most relevant to theology: voluntary bad action. At this point we are squarely in the moral domain, and so we might as well speak of bad actions as sins. In question 2, Aquinas takes up questions regarding the character of sin, assessing the way in which intentions, actions, objects, and circumstances contribute to t…Read more
  • Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy Volume 6 (edited book)
    Oxford University Press. 2018.
    Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy showcases the best new scholarly work on philosophy from the end of antiquity into the Renaissance. OSMP combines historical scholarship with philosophical acuteness, and will be an essential resource for anyone working in the area.
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    Belief in a Fallen World
    Res Philosophica 95 (3): 531-559. 2018.
    In an ideal epistemic world, our beliefs would correspond to our evidence, and our evidence would be bountiful. In the world we live in, however, if we wish to live meaningful lives, other epistemic strategies are necessary. Here I attempt to work out, systematically, the ways in which evidentialism fails us as a guide to belief. This is so preeminently for lives of a religious character, but the point applies more broadly.
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    Aquinas on Mind
    Philosophical Review 103 (4): 745. 1994.
  • The Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy: Volume 1
    Cambridge University Press. 2010.
    The Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy comprises over fifty specially commissioned essays by experts on the philosophy of this period. Starting in the late eighth century, with the renewal of learning some centuries after the fall of the Roman Empire, a sequence of chapters take the reader through developments in many and varied fields, including logic and language, natural philosophy, ethics, metaphysics, and theology. Close attention is paid to the context of medieval philosophy, with di…Read more
  • The Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy: Volume 2
    Cambridge University Press. 2010.
    The Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy comprises over fifty specially commissioned essays by experts on the philosophy of this period. Starting in the late eighth century, with the renewal of learning some centuries after the fall of the Roman Empire, a sequence of chapters take the reader through developments in many and varied fields, including logic and language, natural philosophy, ethics, metaphysics, and theology. Close attention is paid to the context of medieval philosophy, with di…Read more
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    After Certainty offers a reconstruction of the history of epistemology, understood as a series of changing expectations about the cognitive ideal that we might hope to achieve in this world. Pasnau ranges widely over philosophy from Aristotle to the 17th century, and examines in some detail the rise of science as an autonomous discipline.
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    Plotting Augustine's Confessions
    Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 3 (2): 77-106. 2000.
    Some ideas on how to teach the Confessions in an introductory philosophy class.
  • Scholastic philosophers in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries advanced original and sophisticated accounts of the nature of cognition and mental representation. This dissertation analyzes some of the debates of that period, beginning with Thomas Aquinas and going on to consider a number of his most penetrating critics: Henry of Ghent , Peter John Olivi , William Ockham , and William Crathorn . The study begins with some of the theoretical foundations of scholastic theories of cognition, suc…Read more
  • Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy Volume 5 (edited book)
    Oxford University Press. 2017.
    Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy showcases the best new scholarly work on philosophy from the end of antiquity into the Renaissance. OSMP combines historical scholarship with philosophical acuteness, and will be an essential resource for anyone working in the area.
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    Oxford studies in medieval philosophy (edited book)
    Oxford University Press. 2013.
    Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy showcases the best scholarly research in this flourishing field. The series covers all aspects of medieval philosophy, including the Latin, Arabic, and Hebrew traditions, and runs from the end of antiquity into the Renaissance. It publishes new work by leading scholars in the field, and combines historical scholarship with philosophical acuteness. The papers will address a wide range of topics, from political philosophy to ethics, and logic to metaphysics. O…Read more
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    A review of Cory's book.