A companion to Walter Burley : late medieval logician and metaphysician / / edited by Alessandro D. Conti.

Until some thirty years ago, medieval scholars and historians of philosophy have not generally done justice to Walter Burley (ca. 1275-after 1344). On the one hand, he was been misconstrued as holding a mere variation of more moderate realist positions – something that is true only for the first par...

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Superior document:Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition ; Volume 41
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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Brill's companions to the Christian tradition ; Volume 41.
Physical Description:1 online resource (451 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction / Alessandro D. Conti
  • Chapter One. Life and Works / Marta Vittorini
  • Chapter Two. The Ockham–Burley Dispute / Catarina Dutilh Novaes
  • Chapter Three. Meaning and Truth / Laurent Cesalli
  • Chapter Four. Being and Analogy / E. Jennifer Ashworth
  • Chapter Five. Universals and Individuals / Hans-Ulrich Wöhler
  • Chapter Six. Burley’s Theories of Categories / Alessandro D. Conti
  • Chapter Seven. Knowledge / Alessandro D. Conti
  • Chapter Eight. Physical Forms and Matter / Elżbieta Jung
  • Chapter Nine. Motion and Time / Cecilia Trifogli
  • Chapter Ten. Generation and Corruption / Marek Gensler
  • Chapter Eleven. The Ethics of Walter Burley / Iacopo Costa
  • Chapter Twelve. Burley’s Commentary on the Politics: Exegetic Techniques and Political Language / Roberto Lambertini
  • Chapter Thirteen. 14th-Century Reactions to Burley / Fabrizio Amerini
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index.