Metaphysics through semantics : the philosophical recovery of the medieval mind : essays in honor of Gyula Klima /

'More than any other living scholar of medieval philosophy, Gyula Klima has influenced the way we read and understand philosophical texts by showing how the questions they ask can be placed in a modern context without loss or distortion. The key to his approach is a respect for medieval authors...

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Other Authors: Klima, Gyula (honouree.), Hochschild, Joshua P., 1972- (Editor), Nevitt, Turner (Editor), Wood, Adam (Assistant Professor of Philosophy) (Editor), Borbély, Gábor (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2023].
Series:Archives internationales d'histoire des idées ; 242.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. In appreciation of Gyula Klima / iJoshua P. Hochschild
  • Part I: Before Aquinas. Pythagoras, the philosopher and grammar teacher (Br. Lib. Add. MS 37516 recto) / István Bodnár
  • Abelard on existential inference / Peter King
  • Recreating "Saint Anselm's Proof" / Daniel Patrick Moloney
  • Albert the Great among the Pygmies : Explaining animal Intelligence in the Thirteenth Century / Peter G. Sobol
  • Part II: Aquinas. "The essential differentiae of things are unknown to us" : Thomas Aquinas on the limits of the knowability of natural substances / Fabrizio Amerini
  • Aquinas, perversor philosophiae suae / Gábor Borbély
  • Knowing non-existent natures : a problem for Aquinas's semantics of essence / Turner C. Nevitt
  • Metaphors, dead or alive / Martin Klein
  • Truth and person in Aquinas's De veritate / Robert J. Dobie
  • Transcendentals explained through Syncategoremata : is being as truth a transcendental according to Thomas Aquinas? / Giovanni Ventimiglia
  • Truth as a transcendental / Edward Feser
  • Part III: Ockham and Bruidan. Four notes on the grammar of Ockham's mental language / Claude Panaccio
  • Thoughts about things : Aquinas, Buridan and late medieval nominalism / Calvin G. Normore
  • Buridan's Reinterpretation of Natural Possibility and Necessity / Guido Alt
  • The semantic account of formal consequence, from Alfred Tarski back to John Buridan / Jacob Archambault
  • Skeptical motivators in Buridan's philosophy of science / Ariane Economos
  • Part IV: Other Scholastics. Parody or touch-up? : Duns Scotus's engagement with Anselm's Proslogion Argument / Giorgio Pini
  • De se vs. de facto ontology in late-medieval realism / Laurent Cesalli
  • Connotation vs. extrinsic denomination : Peter Auriol on intentions and intellectual cognition / Giacomo Fornasieri
  • Temporal origins essentialism and gappy existence in Marsilius of Inghen's Quaestiones super libros De generatione et corruptione / Adam Wood
  • John of Ripa and the metaphysics of Christology / Richard Cross
  • Afterword. Gyula Klima as Medievalist : a select bibliographical essay / Jacob Archambault.