Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy Volume 8

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


• What Does the Happy Life Require? Augustine on What the Summum Bonum Includes


• Perception in Augustine's De Trinitate 11: A Non-Trinitarian Analysis


• Meditating on the Meditations: Al-Ghazali, Teresa of Ávila, Descartes


• Thomas Aquinas on How the Soul Moves the Body


• Thomas of Sutton's Intellectualist Doctrine of the Will's Self-Motion


• Walter Burley on Co-Signification in Opaque Contexts


• Social Powers and Mental Relations: William Ockham on the Semantics and Ontology of Lordship and Ownership


• Briefly Noted


• Faucher - Schuessler - Vasalou - Aquinas's Quodlibeta

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 scholarly research in this flourishing field. The series covers all aspects of medieval philosophy, including the Latin, Arabic, and Hebrew traditions, and runs from the end of antiquity into the Renaissance. It publishes new work by leading scholars in the field, and combines historical scholarship with philosophical acuteness. The papers will address a wide range of topics, from political philosophy to ethics, and logic to metaphysics. OSMP is an essential resource for anyone working in the area.

Product details

• Authors: Robert (Professor of Philosophy Pasnau
• Assisted by: Robert Pasnau (Editor), Robert (Professor of Philosophy Pasnau (Editor), Pasnau Robert (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780198865728
• ISBN: 978-0-19-886572-8
• No. of pages: 292
• Series: Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy
• 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, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Philosophy of religion, Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600, Medieval Western philosophy, Islamic & Arabic philosophy, Islamic and Arab philosophy