Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy Volume 7

Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy showcases the best new scholarly work on philosophy from the end of antiquity into the Renaissance. OSMP combines historical scholarship with philosophical acuteness, and will be an essential resource for anyone working in the area.

List of contents

• Articles


• "Not So Ridiculous": Avicenna on the Existence of Nature (tabi'a) contra Aristotle and the Ash'arites


• Only God Can Make a Tree: Abaelard on Wholes and Parts and Some Evidence of His Later Thinking About Them


• Accidental Forms as Metaphysical Parts of Material Substances in Aquinas's Ontology


• Scotus versus Aquinas on Instrumental Causality


• The Relation-Theory of Mental Acts: Durand of St.-Pourçain on the Ontological Status of Mental Acts


• Walter Chatton's Rejection of Final Causality


• Critical Notice


• Aquinas on the Sources of Wrongdoing: Themes from McCluskey


• Briefly Noted


• Scotus - Adriaenssen - Gorman - Wyclif

About the author

Robert Pasnau is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado. He received his PhD in 1994 from Cornell University, and has published widely on the history of philosophy. He won the APA Book Prize for Thomas Aquinas on Human Nature (CUP, 2002), and has more recently published The Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy (CUP, 2010), Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671 (OUP, 2011), and After Certainty (OUP, 2017).

Summary

Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy showcases the best new scholarly work on philosophy from the end of antiquity into the Renaissance. OSMP combines historical scholarship with philosophical acuteness, and will be an essential resource for anyone working in the area.

Product details

• Authors: Robert (Professor of Philosophy Pasnau
• Assisted by: Robert Pasnau (Editor), Pasnau Robert (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9780198845515
• ISBN: 978-0-19-884551-5
• No. of pages: 268
• Series: Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy; Oxford Studies in Medieval Phi
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Religious, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Medieval, PHILOSOPHY / Eastern, Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600, Medieval Western philosophy, medieval; philosophy; latin; hebrew; arabic