Duns Scotus: A Brief Introduction to his Life and Thought
Duns Scotus, from his early years as a philosopher and theologian was confronted with this problem from within Aristotelian philosophy. And he gave a novel answer to it, one which differed from the Thomistic account.
The Calamitous Fourteenth Century in England: All Doom and Gloom?
This was a fantastic paper given at the Crown and Country in Late medieval England session at KZOO. There were only two papers but both were interesting and enjoyable. This paper delved into the history of science in late medieval England and examined why the fourteenth century, a time that is usually synonymous with doom and gloom, plague and uprising, wasn’t all that bad upon closer observation.
Faith and reason: charting the medieval concept of the infinite
I would like to start with some assumptions. First, I take it for granted that the apposition of negative terms to the Almighty God became quite early an accepted practice in Christianity, which caused in turn that the infinite, as an opposite term to something easily convenient to positive delineation, was admitted in the repertoire of God’s adverbial description.
Duns Scotus on Divine Substance and the Trinity
Duns Scotus on Divine Substance and the Trinity Cross, Richard (Oriel College, Oxford) Medieval Philosophy and Theology 11 (2003) Abstract Charting a course…
Divisibility, Communicability, and Predicability in Duns Scotus’s Theories of the Common Nature
Divisibility, Communicability, and Predicability in Duns Scotus’s Theories of the Common Nature Cross, Richard (Oriel College Oxford University) Medieval Philosophy and Theology 11…
Letting Scotus Speak for Himself
Letting Scotus Speak for Himself Ingham, Mary Beth (Loyola Marymount University) Medieval Philosophy and Theology 10 (2001) Abstract In “The Unmitigated Scotus,” Thomas…
Happiness and Freedom in Aquinas’s Theory of Action
Happiness and Freedom in Aquinas’s Theory of Action McCluskey, Colleen (Saint Louis University) Medieval Philosophy and Theology 9 (2000) Abstract Thomas Aquinas is…
Scotus on Morality and Nature
Scotus on Morality and Nature Hare, John (Calvin College) Medieval Philosophy and Theology 9 (2000) Abstract I. THE AFFECTION FOR JUSTICE AND THE…
Species, Concept, and Thing: Theories of Signification in the Second Half of the Thirteenth Century
Species, Concept, and Thing: Theories of Signification in the Second Half of the Thirteenth Century Pini, Giorgio (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa) Medieval Philosophy…
Did Scotus Embrace Anselm’s Notion of Freedom?
Did Scotus Embrace Anselm’s Notion of Freedom? Langston, Douglas Medieval Philosophy and Theology, vol. 5, no. 2 (1996) Abstract In his “Duns Scotus…
Duns Scotus on Signification
Duns Scotus on Signification Perler, Dominik Medieval Philosophy and Theology, vol. 3 (1993) Abstract In both versions of his Commentary on the Sentences,…
Duns Scotus on Autonomous Freedom and Divine Co-Causality
Duns Scotus on Autonomous Freedom and Divine Co-Causality Frank, William A. Medieval Philosophy and Theology, vol. 2 (1992) Abstract John Duns Scotus teaches…