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This book considers different forms of voluntarism developed from the 13th to 18th centuries. By crossing the conventional dividing line between the medieval and early modern periods, the volume draws important new insights on the historical development of voluntarism.
List of contents
Introduction: Voluntarism: Central Philosophical Issues and Problems
Sonja Schierbaum and Jörn Müller Part 1: Psychological Voluntarism 1. Does Voluntarism Lead to Irrationalism? A Medieval Case Study
Dominik Perler 2. Voluntarism and Aristotelian
akrasia: Radicalizing Views on Incontinence around 1277
Jörn Müller 3. Henry of Ghent and John of Pouilly on "Aristotle's Prophecy about Incontinence"
Tobias Hoffmann 4. Descartes and Leibniz on the Nature of the Will
Stephan Schmid 5. Faith and Will in Francisco de Vitoria
Christophe Grellard Part 2: Ethical Voluntarism 6. The Blind Will Is No King: Henry of Ghent's Voluntarism and the Act of Choice
Michael Szlachta 7. Descartes's Conception of Freedom: Between Voluntarism and Intellectualism
Ariane Cäcilie Schneck 8. Hobbes against
liberum arbitrium Thomas Pink 9. Freedom of the Will and the Passions in Pufendorf's Action Theory
Heikki Haara 10. Heavenly "Freedom" in Fourteenth-Century Voluntarism
Eric W. Hagedorn Part 3: Theological Voluntarism 11. From Moral to Modal Voluntarism: Descartes on the Status of Eternal Truths
Sebastian Bender 12. Grounding the Principle of Plenitude, or Why Leibniz Rehabilitated Divine Will
Ursula Renz and Sarah Tropper 13. Catharine Trotter Cockburn against Theological Voluntarism
Ruth Boeker 14. Crusius against the Arbitrariness of Moral Obligation: An Alternative to Theological Voluntarism?
Sonja Schierbaum
About the author
Sonja Schierbaum is currently leader of the Emmy Noether research group "Practical Reasons Before Kant (1720-1780)" at the University of Würzburg. She is the author of
Ockham's Assumption of Mental Speech (2014) and has co-edited a volume on late-medieval conceptions of self-knowledge (with Dominik Perler, 2014).
Jörn Müller is Professor of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy at the University of Würzburg. His research focuses on practical philosophy, anthropology, and philosophical psychology. His publications include monographs on Aristotle's ethics, Albert the Great and Henry of Ghent, as well as on weakness of will from Socrates to Duns Scotus.
