Later Medieval Metaphysics : : Ontology, Language, and Logic / / ed. by Rondo Keele, Charles Bolyard.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
• MitwirkendeR: Ashworth, E. Jennifer,; Bolyard, Charles,; Brower-Toland, Susan,; Conolly, Brian Francis,; Keele, Rondo,; Klima, Gyula,; Parsons, Terence,; Tweedale, Martin,; Wood, Rega,; Zupko, Jack,
• HerausgeberIn: Bolyard, Charles,; Keele, Rondo,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Medieval Philosophy: Texts and Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (238 p.)

The multi-author Essays in Later Mediaeval Metaphysics focuses primarily on 13th and 14th century Latin treatments of some of the most important metaphysical issues as conceived by many of the most important thinkers of the day. Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus, William of Ockham, Walter Chatton, Jo...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part I essence, existence, and the nature of metaphysics
• 1 Duns Scotus on Metaphysics as the Science of First Entity
• 2 Aquinas vs. Buridan on Essence and Existence
• Part II form and matter
• 3 The Form of Corporeity and Potential and Aptitudinal Being in Dietrich von Freiberg’s Defense of the Doctrine of the Unity of Substantial Form
• 4 Accidents in Scotus’s Metaphysics Commentary
• Part III universals
• 5 Avicenna Latinus on the Ontology of Types and Tokens
• 6 Universal Thinking as Pro cess: The Metaphysics of Change and Identity in John Buridan’s Intellectio Theory
• Part IV language, logic, and metaphysics
• 7 Can God Know More? A Case Study in Later Medieval Discussions of Propositions
• 8 The Power of Medieval Logic
• 9 Iteration and Infinite Regress in Walter Chatton’s Metaphysics
• 10 Analogy and Meta phor from Thomas Aquinas to Duns Scotus and Walter Burley
• Notes
• List of Contributors
• Index