Ockham on the Concept Boler, John (University of Washington) Medieval Philosophy and Theology 11 (2003) Abstract It is a commonplace of Ockham commentary that he changed his position on what concepts are. While I see no reason to question the general lines of the familiar story, I do think there are some interesting details along […]
Divisibility, Communicability, and Predicability in Duns Scotus’s Theories of the Common Nature
November 19, 2010 By
Divisibility, Communicability, and Predicability in Duns Scotus’s Theories of the Common Nature Cross, Richard (Oriel College Oxford University) Medieval Philosophy and Theology 11 (2003) Abstract As is well-known, Duns Scotus adopts a moderately realist stance on the being of the common natures of categorial entities—substances and accidents. He believes that such natures have extramental being, […]
Letting Scotus Speak for Himself
November 15, 2010 By
Letting Scotus Speak for Himself Ingham, Mary Beth (Loyola Marymount University) Medieval Philosophy and Theology 10 (2001) Abstract In “The Unmitigated Scotus,” Thomas Williams calls for another, better reading of the Subtle Doctor: one in which he is able to “speak for himself.” In this and other articles, Williams criticizes recent Scotist scholarship for its […]
Richard Rufus’s De anima Commentary: The Earliest Known, Surviving, Western De anima Commentary
November 9, 2010 By
Richard Rufus’s De anima Commentary: The Earliest Known, Surviving, Western De anima Commentary Wood, Rega (Stanford University) Medieval Philosophy and Theology 10 (2001) Abstract Richard Rufus of Cornwall was educated as a philosopher at Paris where he was a master of arts. In 1238, after lecturing on Aristotle’s libri naturales, Rufus became a Franciscan and […]
The Phenomenological Act of perscrutatio in the Proemium of St. Bonaventure’s Commentary on the Sentences
November 3, 2010 By
The Phenomenological Act of perscrutatio in the Proemium of St. Bonaventure’s Commentary on the Sentences Falque, Emmanuel (Catholic Institute of Paris) (translated from the French by ELISA MANGINA) Medieval Philosophy and Theology 10 (2001) Abstract As Hans Urs von Balthasar has put it, “nothing is more typical of [St. Bonaventure] than the prologue to the […]
Scotus on Morality and Nature
November 2, 2010 By
Scotus on Morality and Nature Hare, John (Calvin College) Medieval Philosophy and Theology 9 (2000) Abstract I. THE AFFECTION FOR JUSTICE AND THE AFFECTION FOR ADVANTAGE This article is part of a larger project defending a version of divine command theory in ethics. What I am interested in from Scotus is that he combines such […]
Species, Concept, and Thing: Theories of Signification in the Second Half of the Thirteenth Century
October 25, 2010 By
Species, Concept, and Thing: Theories of Signification in the Second Half of the Thirteenth Century Pini, Giorgio (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa) Medieval Philosophy and Theology 8 (1999) Abstract Students of later medieval semantics are familiar with the controversy that developed at the end of the thirteenth century over the signification of names. The debate focused […]
Miracles of Bodily Transformation, or How St. Francis Received the Stigmata
October 18, 2010 By
No brief discussion of stigmata can hope to take account of the many, and sometimes conflicting, dimensions of this historically datable, and relatively recent, religious phenomenon.
Richard Rufus on Naming Substances
October 12, 2010 By
Richard Rufus on Naming Substances Karger, Elizabeth (CNRS, Paris) Medieval Philosophy and Theology 7 (1998) Abstract Some names, specifically the proper names by which people are called, are considered “a mess” by at least one prominent contemporary philosopher. Looking at the matter from the perspective of medieval philosophy, we might say that the reason such […]
The Earliest Known Surviving Western Medieval Metaphysics Commentary
October 12, 2010 By
The Earliest Known Surviving Western Medieval Metaphysics Commentary Wood, Rega (Yale University) Medieval Philosophy and Theology 7 (1998) Abstract Erfurt Quarto 290 includes two commentaries on Aristotle’s Metaphysics. Timothy B. Noone established the attribution to Richard Rufus of Cornwall of the commentary that appears on folios 1–40,1 chiefly on the basis of a thirteenth-century ascription […]
Olivi on the Metaphysics of Soul
October 8, 2010 By
Olivi on the Metaphysics of Soul Pasnau, Robert Medieval Philosophy and Theology, vol. 6, no. 2 (1997) Abstract The centerpiece of Aristotle’s De anima is his account of the soul-body relationship in terms of form: the soul is “the form of a natural body that potentially has life”. Recent evaluations of this doctrine have varied […]
Bonaventure and the Question of a Medieval Philosophy
October 6, 2010 By
Bonaventure and the Question of a Medieval Philosophy Speer, Andreas Medieval Philosophy and Theology, vol. 6, no. 1 (1997) Abstract Can one speak coherently of Bonaventure’s philosophy? Or is such an idea nothing more than a modern hermeneutical fancy? The arguments against the view that Bonaventure has a philosophy are of diverse origin. Certain influential […]
Ockham and Ambiguity
September 30, 2010 By
Ockham and Ambiguity Sinkler, Georgette Medieval Philosophy and Theology, vol. 4 (1994) Abstract In the Sophistichi eknchi, Aristotle identifies thirteen types of fallacies or ways one can go wrong in arguing. According to Aristotle, of these fallacies, six come about in language, and seven are independent of language. The six in language can be characterized […]
Duns Scotus on Signification
September 27, 2010 By
Duns Scotus on Signification Perler, Dominik Medieval Philosophy and Theology, vol. 3 (1993) Abstract In both versions of his Commentary on the Sentences, Scotus alludes to a great controversy among his contemporaries over the question of whether a spoken word signifies a thing or a concept. He does not give a detailed account of this […]
The Certainty and Scope of Knowledge: Bonaventure’s Disputed Questions on the Knowledge of Christ
September 27, 2010 By
The Certainty and Scope of Knowledge: Bonaventure’s Disputed Questions on the Knowledge of Christ Speer, Andreas Medieval Philosophy and Theology, vol. 3 (1993) Abstract I shall be concerned here with two key questions for any theory of knowledge: (1) Is there such a thing as certainty of knowledge and, if so, what is it? (2) […]
Duns Scotus on Autonomous Freedom and Divine Co-Causality
September 26, 2010 By
Duns Scotus on Autonomous Freedom and Divine Co-Causality Frank, William A. Medieval Philosophy and Theology, vol. 2 (1992) Abstract John Duns Scotus teaches that God is an immediate, efficient cause of created volitions. He comes to this conclusion as an outcome of his logically prior commitments to the absolute contingency of God’s relationship to the […]
Richard Rufus of Cornwall on Creation: The Reception of Aristotelian Physics in the West
September 23, 2010 By
Richard Rufus of Cornwall on Creation: The Reception of Aristotelian Physics in the West Wood, Rega Medieval Philosophy and Theology, vol. 2 (1992) Abstract Richard Rufus was an English philosopher-theologian, the fifth Franciscan Master of Theology at Oxford. Like Bonaventure, he was Master of Arts at Paris before joining the Franciscans in 1238, five years […]
Peter of Candia’s Hundred-Year “History” of the Theologian’s Role
September 22, 2010 By
Peter of Candia’s Hundred-Year “History” of the Theologian’s Role F. Brown, Stephen F. Medieval Philosophy and Theology, vol. 1 (1991) Abstract Pitros Philargis (Petrus Philaretus) was born of Greek parents on the island of Crete (Candia) around 1340. Left an orphan at an early age, he was cared for by Italian Franciscans. After joining the […]
Trials for Sorcery in Early Fourteenth-Century Avignon
June 20, 2010 By
Trials for Sorcery in Early Fourteenth-Century Avignon Session:Politics, Condemnation, and Sorcery in the Fourteenth Century By Robert Ticknor, Tulane University This paper dealt with the question of magic and sorcery and the bridge between abstract theological questions and actual magic. The general category of magic is crucial to the understanding cultural mores in societies. Magic […]
The Role of the Mendicant Orders on Political Life of Castile and León in the Later 13th Century
December 10, 2008 By
The Role of the Mendicant Orders on Political Life of Castile and León in the Later 13th Century By Rita Ríos Religion and Political Change in Europe: Past and Present, edited by Ausma Cimdina (University of Pisa, 2003) Introduction: The presence of Mendicant Orders in Castile and León, particularly Franciscans and Dominicans, dates back to the unification of the two […]
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