Maimonides on God and Duns Scotus on logic and metaphysics
By: edited by Gyula Klima and Alexander W. Hall
Series: Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics -- v. 12
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9781443878432
Subjects: God (Judaism); God (Christianity); History of doctrines; Metaphysics; History; Medieval Philosophy
Description: "Moses Maimonides and John Duns Scotus are key figures as regards the thirteenth-century philosophical tradition that developed out of the Western Christian reception of the Neo-Platonized Aristotelianism of Islamic and Jewish thinkers. Whereas the writings of Maimonides count among the received works that inaugurate and shape this span, the variety of conceptual instruments developed by Scotus arguably signal its end, preparing the way for the emergence of diverse fourteenth-century philosophical worldviews. Maimonides on God and Duns Scotus on Logic and Metaphysics explores the eponymous thinkers' work across a variety of fields. ... Part one of this volume contrasts Maimonides's and Aquinas's parallel treatments of this and other proof strategies still employed by contemporary philosophers. Part two, on Scotus, includes discussion of the authenticity of the logical writings attributed to him, the evolution of his thought in this field against the backdrop of various thirteenth-century developments, the types of Aristotelian universals theorized by Scotus, his semantics of theological discourse and ontology of possible entities."--Back cover.
Table of contents: title: Part 1.; title: Maimonides on God.; title: Creation and the argument from particularity  -- Kenneth Seeskin ;; title: Maimonides, Aquinas, and particularity : comments on Seeskin's "Creation and the Argument from Particularity"  -- Stephen R. Ogden ;; title: The sixth method doesn't work, but the third way does? : Moses Maimonides' assessment of two proofs based on possibility and necessity  -- Jamie Anne Spiering ;; title: Conceiving creation : response to Spiering and Seeskin  -- Daniel Davies -- Part 2.; title: Duns Scotus on logic and metaphysics.; title: On the authenticity of Scotus's logical works  -- Edward Buckner ;; title: Scotus on the species of quality  -- Lloyd Al Newton ;; title: Logic, ontology, and the psychology of universals in Duns Scotus  -- Cruz Gonzalez-Ayesta and David Gonzalez-Ginocchio ;; title: The semantic unity of the analogous concept according to John Capreolus  -- Domenic D'Ettore ;; title: Can we speak about that which is not? : actualism and possibilism in analytic philosophy and scholasticism -- Lukáš Novák.