Being and Knowing - Studies in Thomas Aquinas and Later Medieval Philosophers (Papers in Mediaeval Studies)

Contents......Page 6
Introduction......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
THOMAS AQUINAS......Page 12
1. Form and Essence in the Philosophy of St. Thomas......Page 14
2. St. Thomas and the Analogy of Genus......Page 30
3. A Neglected Thomistic Text on the Foundation of Mathematics......Page 44
4. St. Thomas and Eternal Truths......Page 54
5. St. Thomas on the Sacred Name \'Tetragrammaton\'......Page 70
6. The Unity of a Science: St. Thomas and the Nominalists......Page 82
7. St. Thomas and Historicity......Page 106
SIGER OF BRABANT......Page 128
8. Esse and Essentia in the Metaphysics of Siger of Brabant......Page 130
9. Between Reason and Faith: Siger of Brabant and Pomponazzi on the Magic Arts......Page 148
10. Siger of Brabant on Fables and Falsehoods in Religion......Page 174
DIETRICH OF FREIBERG......Page 186
11. The De Quiditatibus Entium of Dietrich of Freiberg and its Criticism of Thomistic Metaphysics......Page 188
HENRY OF HARCLAY......Page 212
12. Henry of Harclay\'s Question on the Univocity of Being......Page 214
13. Henry of Harclay\'s Questions on Immortality......Page 240
JOHN OF JANDUN......Page 284
14. John of Jandun and the Divine Causality......Page 286
FRANCIS OF MEYRONNES......Page 320
15. Francis of Meyronnes\' Defense of Epistemological Realism......Page 322
16. The Role of Infinity in the Thought of Francis of Meyronnes......Page 344
WILLIAM OF OCKHAM......Page 372
17. The Role of Divine Ideas in the Theology of William of Ockham......Page 374
18. Ockham on the Possibility of a Better World......Page 394
19. Method in Ockham\'s Nominalism......Page 414
20. William of Ockham on Language and Reality......Page 434
21. Ockham\'s Razor and Chatton\'s Anti-Razor......Page 442
EPILOGUE......Page 456
22. Some Aspects of Fourteenth-Century Philosophy......Page 458
23. Medieval Philosophy and its Historians......Page 472
Recent Editions of Works of Authors Cited......Page 492
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