Willing and Understanding: Late Medieval Debates on the Will, the Intellect, and Practical Knowledge
Published on 16. March 2023
Book
Hardback
344 pages
978-90-04-54032-3 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Charting a dense map of voluntarist and epistemological ideas-entrenched leitmotifs of late medieval philosophy, seminal insights sparking original trends, and ephemeral novelties-the volume is a testimony to the conceptual multidimensionality and ethical complexity of the past and present iterations of the debate on the will.
Contributors are Pascale Bermon, Magdalena Bieniak, Michael W. Dunne, Riccardo Fedriga, Giacomo Fornasieri, Tobias Hoffmann, Severin V. Kitanov, Monika Michalowska, Riccardo Saccenti, Sonja Schierbaum, Michael Szlachta, Lukasz Tomanek, and Francesco Omar Zamboni.
Charting a dense map of voluntarist and epistemological ideas-entrenched leitmotifs of late medieval philosophy, seminal insights sparking original trends, and ephemeral novelties-the volume is a testimony to the conceptual multidimensionality and ethical complexity of the past and present iterations of the debate on the will.
Contributors are Pascale Bermon, Magdalena Bieniak, Michael W. Dunne, Riccardo Fedriga, Giacomo Fornasieri, Tobias Hoffmann, Severin V. Kitanov, Monika Michalowska, Riccardo Saccenti, Sonja Schierbaum, Michael Szlachta, Lukasz Tomanek, and Francesco Omar Zamboni.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
696 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-54032-3 (9789004540323)
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Persons
Monika Michalowska, Ph.D. (2007), is Professor at the Medical University of Lodz. Her research focuses on late medieval ethics and theology. She has critically edited Richard Kilvington's Quaestiones super libros Ethicorum and Quaestiones super libros Sententiarum (Brill, 2016, 2021, 2023).
Riccardo Fedriga is Professor of history of ideas at the University of Bologna. He has published several articles and books on philosophy of mind and action in medieval thought, including Safeguarding Free Will (Ksiegarnia Akademicka Publishing, 2022) with Monika Michalowska.
Riccardo Fedriga is Professor of history of ideas at the University of Bologna. He has published several articles and books on philosophy of mind and action in medieval thought, including Safeguarding Free Will (Ksiegarnia Akademicka Publishing, 2022) with Monika Michalowska.
Content
Preface
Notes on Contributors
1 The Complexity of Late Medieval Debates on the Will
?Introduction
?Riccardo Fedriga and Monika Michalowska
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 Fa?r 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 Michalowska
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
?Lukasz Tomanek
Index of Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance Names
Index of Modern Names
Notes on Contributors
1 The Complexity of Late Medieval Debates on the Will
?Introduction
?Riccardo Fedriga and Monika Michalowska
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 Fa?r 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 Michalowska
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
?Lukasz Tomanek
Index of Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance Names
Index of Modern Names