Oxford studies in medieval philosophy. Volume 7 /
This 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...
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy Volume 7; Copyright; Contents; "Not So Ridiculous": Avicenna on the Existence of Nature (ṭabī a͑) contra Aristotle and the Ash a͑rites; 1. Introduction; 2. Nature as a Power; 3. Historical-Philosophical Background; 4. The Avicennian Argument; 5. A Question and a Suggestion; 6. Conclusion; Bibliography; Only God Can Make a Tree: Abaelard on Wholes and Parts and Some Evidence of His Later Thinking about Them; 1. Introduction; 2. Abaelard on Parts, Wholes, and the Nature of Increase; a. The Loci from a Whole and from a Part
- B. The Division of Integral Wholesc. The Growing Square; d. The Identity of the Amputee; 3. The Testimony of the Introductiones Montanae Maiores; Bibliography; Accidental Forms as Metaphysical Parts of Material Substances in Aquinas's Ontology; 1. Introduction; 2. Two Competing Models; 3. Setting the Standard I: Substantial and Accidental Change; 4. Setting the Standard II: Unum per Accidens, Unum Simpliciter; 5. The Case for Expansion I: Divine Simplicity; 6. The Case for Expansion II: Essence and Suppositum; 7. Further Expansion I: "Substance" Is Said in Many Ways
- 8. Further Expansion II: Making Room for Accidental Unities9. Further Expansion III: Unity, Identity, and Persistence; 10. Conclusion; Bibliography; Aquinas on the Intension and Remission of Accidental Forms; 1. The Problem of Intension and Remission and Aquinas's Critique of the Prominent Medieval Solutions; 2. Aquinas's Participation Solution; a. Aquinas on Accidental Forms and Accidental Qualities; b. How Substances Participate in their Accidental Forms; 3. Causes of Changes in Degree of Participation in a Form; 4. Conclusion; Bibliography; Primary Sources; Secondary Sources
- Scotus versus Aquinas on Instrumental Causality1. Aquinas's Argument in the Sum of Theology; 2. Scotus's Criticism; 3. Aquinas's Theory of Instrumental Causality; a. Double Action; b. Dispositive and Perfective Causes; 4. Scotus's Theory of Instrumental Causality; a. Secondary Causality; b. Part-Whole Causality; c. Dispositive Causality; d. Borrowed Instrumentality; e. Artificial Instrumentality; 4. Conclusions; Bibliography; Primary Sources; Secondary Sources; The Relation-Theory of Mental Acts: Durand of St.-Pourçain on the Ontological Status of Mental Acts; 1. The Historical Background
- 2. Durand's Motivations3. John Duns Scotus and the Change Objection; 4. The Objection from Agency: Adam Wodeham and an Anonymous Thomist; a. Durand's Reply to the Objection from Agency; 5. Conclusions; Bibliography; Walter Chatton's Rejection of Final Causality; 1. Introduction; a. Plan of the Paper; b. The Problem of Final Causes and Causality: First Approximation; 2. Chatton's Position; a. Final Causes; b. Rejection of Final Causality and Real Final Causes; c. Final Causes as Causes Metaphorically Speaking; d. Why Keep Final Causes?; 3. Ockham's Reaction to Chatton; 4. Conclusions