Willing and understanding : : late medieval debates on the will, the intellect, and practical knowledge / / edited by Monika Michałowska and Riccardo Fedriga.

"Willing and Understanding elucidates a variety of issues in and approaches to debating the will-intellect interplay in the late Middle Ages. Authored by prominent scholars in the field, the contributions offer different perspectives on the development of late medieval theories of the will. Cha...

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Superior document:Investigating medieval philosophy, volume 19
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2023]
Year of Publication:2023
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Investigating Medieval Philosophy Series
Physical Description:1 online resource
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Notes on Contributors
  • 1 The Complexity of Late Medieval Debates on the Will
  • Introduction
  • Riccardo Fedriga and Monika Michałowska
  • 2 Fear and Conditional Will in Stephen Langton's Quaestiones and in the Summa Halensis
  • Magdalena Bieniak
  • 3 What Tips the Scales?
  • Volition, Motivation, and Choice in Faḫr al-Din al-Razi
  • Francesco Omar Zamboni
  • 4 How Do Intellect and Will Interact?
  • Thomas Aquinas, Godfrey of Fontaines, and the Determination-Exercise Distinction
  • Michael Szlachta
  • 5 Understanding and Acting
  • Deliberation, the Practical Intellect, and Moral Science at the University of Bologna (Gentile da Cingoli, Angelo d'Arezzo, and Cambiolo da Bologna)
  • Riccardo Saccenti
  • 6 John of Pouilly's Intellectualist Reading of the March 7, 1277 Condemnation
  • Tobias Hoffmann
  • 7 Cognitive Attention and Impressions
  • The Role of the Will in Peter Auriol's Theory of Concept Formation
  • Giacomo Fornasieri
  • 8 Dissolving the Air of Inconsistency
  • William Ockham on Virtuous Volitions and Cognitive Error
  • Sonja Schierbaum
  • 9 Hybernicus contra Thomam
  • Richard FitzRalph on the Will and His Critique of Aquinas on the Primacy of the Intellect over the Will
  • Michael W. Dunne
  • 10 Cracking the Code of the Will
  • Richard Kilvington on the Will and Logic
  • Monika Michałowska
  • 11 Adam Wodeham's Analysis and Defense of Free Will
  • Severin V. Kitanov
  • 12 Gregory of Rimini and the Augustinian Theory of the Will
  • Examples of a Mediaeval Reading of Augustine's De libero arbitrio
  • Pascale Bermon
  • 13 Necessity, Contingency, and Free Will in John of Jandun and John Aurifaber of Halberstadt
  • The Transmission of Ideas from Paris to Erfurt in the 14th Century
  • Łukasz Tomanek
  • Index of Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance Names
  • Index of Modern Names.