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16Thomas Bradwardine: A Fourteenth-Century Augustinian View of TimeIn John Doody, Sean Hannan & Kim Paffenroth (eds.), Augustine and Time, Lexington Books. pp. 209-226. 2021.Thomas Bradwardine is a figure who, for much of the twentieth century, tended only to be discussed by historians of Reformation thought. Less frequently, passing references may have been made to his pioneering work in physics and mathematics, as one of the famed “Merton Calculators.” More recently, some scholars have become interested in more explicitly philosophical and logical aspects of Bradwardine's writing, including his remarkably original solution to the Liar Paradox and his views of moda…Read more
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45Thomas Bradwardine (d. 1349) was an English philosopher, logician, and theologian of some note; but though recent scholarship has revived an interest in much of his work, little attention has been paid to an early treatise he wrote on the topic of future contingents, entitled De futuris contingentibus. In this thesis I aim to address this deficit, arguing in particular that the treatise makes original use of the divine power distinction to resolve the apparent conflict between God’s foreknowledg…Read more
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New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Areas of Specialization
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13th/14th Century Philosophy |
Medieval Logic |
William of Ockham |
Divine Omnipotence |
Divine Providence |
Divine Necessity |
Modality |
Time |