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217Medieval Commentators on Future Contingents in De Interpretatione 9Vivarium 48 (1): 75-95. 2010.This article considers three medieval approaches to the problem of future contingent propositions in chapter 9 of Aristotle's _De interpretatione_. While Boethius assumed that God's atemporal knowledge infallibly pertains to historical events, he was inclined to believe that Aristotle correctly taught that future contingent propositions are not antecedently true or false, even though they may be characterized as true-or-false. Aquinas also tried to combine the allegedly Aristotelian view of the …Read more
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190Aquinas’s Moral Theory (review)Philosophical Review 110 (4): 596-599. 2001.The editors comment that the core of this book is formed by the papers presented as a special session at the Ninth International Congress of Medieval Philosophy, honoring Norman Kretzmann’s contribution to the study of medieval philosophy. They decided to publish these papers with other essays devoted to issues in Aquinas’s moral theory specially commissioned from a group of Kretzmann’s colleagues, friends, and former students. The book, consisting of ten essays and a list of Kretzmann’s publica…Read more
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95Supposition and Predication in Medieval Trinitarian LogicVivarium 51 (1-4): 260-274. 2013.Many fourteenth-century logicians took affirmative propositions to maintain that the subject term and the predicate term stand or supposit for the same. This is called the identity theory of predication by historians and praedicatio identica by Paul of Venice and others. The identity theory of predication was an important part of early fourteenth-century Trinitarian discussions as well, but what was called praedicatio identica by Duns Scotus and his followers in this context was something differ…Read more
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88Generality and Identity in Late Medieval Discussions of the Prior AnalyticsVivarium 48 (1-2): 215-227. 2010.In this article, I shall consider medieval discussions of the principles of Aristotelian syllogistic which were called the dictum de omni et nullo and the expository syllogism. I am particularly interested in how theological questions contributed to the introduction of some influential new medieval ideas, such as the extensional sameness of the subject as the basis of predication, the interpretation of the expository syllogism from this point of view, and the explication of the logical subject o…Read more
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80Emotions in ancient and medieval philosophyOxford University Press. 2004.Emotions are the focus of intense debate both in contemporary philosophy and psychology, and increasingly also in the history of ideas. Simo Knuuttila presents a comprehensive survey of philosophical theories of emotion from Plato to Renaissance times, combining rigorous philosophical analysis with careful historical reconstruction. The first part of the book covers the conceptions of Plato and Aristotle and later ancient views from Stoicism to Neoplatonism and, in addition, their reception and …Read more
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79Theories of perception in medieval and early modern philosophy (edited book)Springer. 2008.In recent years, the rich tradition of various philosophical theories of perception has been increasingly studied by scholars of the history of philosophy of ...
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62Change and Contradiction in Henry of GhentVivarium 55 (1-3): 22-35. 2017.Hugh of Novocastro, Landolfo Caracciolo, John Baconthorpe, and some other medieval authors argued that there are real contradictions in nature. The background of this early fourteenth-century theory was the Aristotelian question of how to determine the instant of change between p and ~p. The argument was that these are simultaneously true at the temporal instant of change if it is an instant of changing. The author’s aim is to discuss the background of this view in Henry of Ghent’s theory of ins…Read more
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55Modalities in medieval philosophyRoutledge. 1994.Studies in modal notions, such as necessity, possibility or impossibility, have always played an important role in philosophical analysis. The history of these conceptions is a fascinating story of a variety of assumptions which have given shape to one part of rational discourse. A typical modern approach to modality is codified in what is generally known as possible worlds semantics. According to this view, necessity refers to what is actual in any alternative state of affairs, possibility to w…Read more
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51Time and creation in AugustineIn Eleonore Stump & Norman Kretzmann (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Augustine, Cambridge University Press. pp. 103--15. 2001.
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45Reforging the Great Chain of Being: Studies of the History of Modal Theories (edited book)Reidel. 1980.JAAKKO HINTIKKA GAPS IN THE GREAT CHAIN OF BEING: AN EXERCISE IN THE METHODOLOGY OF THE HISTORY OF IDEAS* For some historians, to understand everything is to pardon everything. For others, like Lord Acton, history is not only a judge, ...
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41Jaakko Hintikka in the Library of Living Philosophers: A DialogueVienna Circle Institute Yearbook 14 231-243. 2010.An evening discussion between professors Jaakko Hintikka and Simo Knuuttila on September 2, 2007, at the Helsinki conference: Knuuttila: Ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for inviting us to this event and for this opportunity to discuss the latest volume of the Library of Living Philosophers, which was published last spring. The title of the volume is “The Philosophy of Jaakko Hintikka”. Probably most people here know this series, which was founded in 1939 by P. A. Schilpp. The idea of the volumes…Read more
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31New ideas on subject and identity in medieval logicIn Benedikt Schick, Edmund Runggaldier & Ludger Honnefelder (eds.), Unity and Time in Metaphysics, Walter De Gruyter. pp. 9--183. 2009.
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26Medieval Theories of the Passions of the SoulIn Henrik Lagerlund & Mikko Yrjonsuri (eds.), Emotions and Choice From Boethius to Descartes, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 49--83. 2002.
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25Aristotle's theory of perception and medieval aristotelianismIn Petra Simo Kärkkäinen Knuuttila (ed.), Theories of Perception in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy, . pp. 1--22. 2008.
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25Naissance de la logique de la volonté dans la pensée médiévaleLes Etudes Philosophiques 3 291-305. 1996.La théorie augustinienne de la volonté a été abondamment discutée au XII e siècle, et a donné naissance à une logique de la volonté, en particulier par sa théorie des actions contraintes et du rapport entre vouloir une fin et vouloir les moyens pour cette fin. Cette logique de la volonté se trouve ultérieurement assimilée par la logique déontique, telle qu'on la trouve développée par exemple chez Roger Roseth au XIV e siècle
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21The emergence of deontic logic in the fourteenth centuryIn Risto Hilpinen (ed.), New Studies in Deontic Logic: Norms, Actions, and the Foundations of Ethics, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 225--248. 1981.
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18The Connexions Between Vital Acts in Suárez’S PsychologyIn Lukáš Novák (ed.), Suárez's Metaphysics in its Historical and Systematic Context, De Gruyter. pp. 259-274. 2014.
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18Trinitarian LogicIn H. Lagerlund (ed.), Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy, Springer. pp. 1335--1337. 2010.
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17Medieval Approaches to Future ContingentsRoczniki Filozoficzne 66 (4): 99-114. 2018.This paper discusses the main lines of medieval Latin approaches to future contingents with some remarks on Marcin Tkaczyk’s paper “The antinomy of future contingent events.” Tkaczyk’s theory shows some similarity with the general frame of the views of Ockham and Scotus, the difference being that while medieval authors argued for the temporal necessity of the past, Tkaczyk is sceptical of the general validity of this necessity. Ockham’s theological view was that God eternally has an intuitive an…Read more