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Offers the English translation of three important sources of knowledge about the survival of classical mythology from the Carolingian era to the High Middle Ages and beyond.
Recounts the remarkable history of efforts by significant medieval thinkers to accommodate the ontology of the Trinity within the framework of Aristotelian logic and ontology
This multi-author work focuses primarily on 13th and 14th century Latin treatments of the most important metaphysical issues of the day. Though standard ontological topics are covered in detail-e.g., existence, universals, form, and accidents-there is also an emphasis on metaphysics broadly conceived to include epistemology, language, and logic.
Examines theories of intentional impossible objects (entia rationis) of several scholastic authors of the Baroque era (Francisco Suarez, Pedro Hurtado de Mendoza, Bartolomeo Mastri, and Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz).
This multi-author work focuses primarily on 13th and 14th century Latin treatments of the most important metaphysical issues of the day. Though standard ontological topics are covered in detail-e.g., existence, universals, form, and accidents-there is also an emphasis on metaphysics broadly conceived to include epistemology, language, and logic.
This entirely new English translation of Buridan's classic treatment of logical consequence aims to make accessible to the modern reader the foremost treatment of the subject in the middle ages. The translation is accompanied by an introduction in which Buridan's ideas are set in their historical context and clearly explained.
This book offers a history of the idea that human thought is structured like a language, from Plato and Aristotle up to the fourteenth century when William of Ockham gave it a new importance and developed it in a systematic way.
Reconsiders John Duns Scotus's theory of the univocity of being in connection to his conception of ultimate difference. Develops a systematic account of ultimate difference from disparate discussions throughout his corpus.
In this book Scotus addresses fundamental issues concerning the limits of human knowledge and the nature of intellect and the object cooperate in generating actual cognition by developing his doctrine of the univocity of being, refuting skepticism and analyzing the way the knowledge in the case of abstractive cognition.
This Reader presents translations of key passages from the Summa Halensis. This text was collaboratively authored mostly between 1236-45 by the founding members of the Franciscan school at the University of Paris, who sought to lay down their own distinctive intellectual tradition for the first time.
This Reader presents translations of key passages from the Summa Halensis. This text was collaboratively authored mostly between 1236-45 by the founding members of the Franciscan school at the University of Paris, who sought to lay down their own distinctive intellectual tradition for the first time.
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