• Introduction
    In Charles Bolyard & Rondo Keele (eds.), Later Medieval Metaphysics: Ontology, Language, and Logic, Fordham University Press. pp. 1-8. 2013.
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    Iteration and Infinite Regress in Walter Chatton’s Metaphysics
    In Charles Bolyard & Rondo Keele (eds.), Later Medieval Metaphysics: Ontology, Language, and Logic, Fordham University Press. pp. 206-222. 2013.
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    Iteration and Infinite Regress in Walter Chatton's Metaphysics
    In Charles Bolyard & Rondo Keele (eds.), Later Medieval Metaphysics: Ontology, Language, and Logic, Fordham University Press. pp. 206-222. 2013.
    Rondo Keele makes a foray into what he calls 'applied logic', investigating a complex argument strategy employed against Ockham by his greatest contemporary opponent, Walter Chatton. Chatton conceives a two-part strategy which attempts to force a kind of iteration of conceptual analysis, together with an infinite explanatory regress, in order to establish that one particular philosophical analysis is ultimately dependent on another. Chatton uses this strategy against Ockham in order to show th…Read more
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    Ockham Explained is an important and much-needed resource on William of Ockham, one of the most important philosophers of the Middle Ages. His eventful and controversial life was marked by sharp career moves and academic and ecclesiastical battles. At 28, Ockham was a conservative English theologian focused obsessively on the nature of language, but by 40, he had transformed into a fugitive friar, accused of heresy, and finally protected by the German emperor as he composed incendiary treatises …Read more
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    Later Medieval Metaphysics: Ontology, Language, and Logic (edited book)
    Fordham University Press. 2013.
    This book begins with standard ontological topics--such as the nature of existence--and of metaphysics generally, such as the status of universals, form, and accidents. What is the proper subject matter of metaphysical speculation? Are essence and existence really distinct in bodies? Does the body lose its unifying form at death? Can an accident of a substance exist in separation from that substance? Are universals real, and, if so, are they anything more than general concepts? Among the figures…Read more
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    The quodlibetal collection sat Oxford in the are fourteenth century are discussed.
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    Often, when philosophical disputes about what is ultimately real reach a highwater mark of complexity, philosophers step back from the controversy to articulate rules which could settle the issues by showing us how to tell when a person is rationally required to posit an entity, i.e., to admit that it exists. I call such principles rules of rational positing. These rules come in two types, those that tend to make us posit more entities, and those that tend to make us posit fewer. The former are …Read more
  • Thomas Williams, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Duns Scotus Reviewed by (review)
    Philosophy in Review 24 (2): 154-156. 2004.
  • Ralph McInerny, Aquinas Reviewed by (review)
    Philosophy in Review 25 (1): 55-56. 2005.
  • St. Thomas Aquinas, On Faith and Reason (review)
    Philosophy in Review 20 3-5. 2000.
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    Can God Make a Picasso? William Ockham and Walter Chatton on Divine Power and Real Relations
    Journal of the History of Philosophy 45 (3): 395-411. 2007.
    This article focuses on one aspect of the late mediaeval debate over divine power, as it was discussed by Oxford philosophers Walter Chatton (d. 1343) and William Ockham (d. 1347). Chatton and Ockham would have agreed, for example, that God is ultimately responsible for the existence of the works of Pablo Picasso, but they would not agree over wheher it violates God's omnipotence to say that he cannot make something that Picasso made, for example, the painting Guernica, without using Picasso him…Read more
  • Thomas Williams, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Duns Scotus (review)
    Philosophy in Review 24 154-156. 2004.
  • Ralph McInerny, Aquinas (review)
    Philosophy in Review 25 55-56. 2005.
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    Walter chatton
    with Jenny Pelletier
    Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2008.
  • St. Thomas Aquinas, On Human Nature Reviewed by (review)
    Philosophy in Review 20 (1): 3-5. 2000.
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    Ockham on Concepts (review) (review)
    Journal of the History of Philosophy 45 (4): 659-660. 2007.
    Rondo Keele - Ockham on Concepts - Journal of the History of Philosophy 45:4 Journal of the History of Philosophy 45.4 659-660 Muse Search Journals This Journal Contents Reviewed by Rondo Keele Louisiana Scholars' College Claude Panaccio. Ockham on Concepts. Ashgate Studies in Medieval Philosophy. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2004. Pp.xi + 197. Cloth, $79.95. At the simplest level, Ockham on Concepts is just what its title suggests: an interpretation and reconstruction of the views of Wil…Read more
  • St. Thomas Aquinas, On Human Nature (review)
    Philosophy in Review 20 (1): 3-5. 2000.
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    The Early Reception of Peter Auriol at Oxford
    Recherches de Theologie Et Philosophie Medievales 82 301-361. 2015.
    The important impact of the French Franciscan Peter Auriol (ca. 1280-1322) upon contemporary philosophical theology at Oxford is well known and has been well documented and analyzed, at least for a narrow range of issues, particularly in epistemology. This article attempts a more systematic treatment of his effects upon Oxford debates across a broader range of subjects and over a more expansive duration of time than has been done previously. Topics discussed include grace and merit, future conti…Read more