Interpreting Duns Scotus - Critical Essays

Provides a reliable point of entrance to the thought of Duns Scotus.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. John Duns Scotus's life in context Stephen D. Dumont; 2. The modal framework of Duns Scotus's argument for the existence of a first cause Richard Cross; 3. Duns Scotus on essential order in De primo principio and elsewhere Thomas M. Ward; 4. Duns Scotus on how God causes the created will's volitions Gloria Frost; 5. Duns Scotus on free will and human agency Martin Pickavé; 6. Duns Scotus on the dignities of human nature Marylin McCord Adams; 7. Duns Scotus on matter and form Cecilia Trifogli; 8. Duns Scotus, intuitionism, and the third sense of 'natural law' Thomas Williams; 9. The bound of sense - adequacy and abstraction in the later works of Duns Scotus Wouter Goris; 10. Before univocity - Duns Scotus's rejection of analogy Giorgio Pini; 11. Analogy after Duns Scotus: the role of the analogia entis in the Scotist metaphysics at Barcelona, 1320-1330 Garrett R. Smith.

About the author

Giorgio Pini is Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University, New York. He is the author of Categories and Logic in Duns Scotus (2002), Scoto e l'analogia (2002), and the critical edition of a previously unedited work by Duns Scotus, Notabilia super Metaphysicam (2017), as well as numerous essays on later medieval metaphysics and theories of cognition.

Summary

This volume provides a reliable point of entrance to the thought of Duns Scotus while giving a snapshot of some of the best research that is now being done on this difficult but intellectually rewarding thinker.

Product details

• Authors: Giorgio (Fordham University Pini
• Assisted by: Giorgio Pini (Editor), Giorgio (Fordham University Pini (Editor), Pini Giorgio (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2021
• EAN: 9781108420051
• ISBN: 978-1-108-42005-1
• No. of pages: 290
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Medieval, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Philosophy of religion, Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600, Medieval Western philosophy