Medieval Western philosophy

This is a student's guide to the life and work of Augustine; a notoriously challenging thinker, widely read in Philosophy and Christian Theology.

Sten Ebbesen has contributed many works in the field of ancient and medieval philosophy over many decades of dedicated research.

This is the definitive study of John Dee and his intellectual career.

Steven Nadler presents the first English translation of a seminal work in the history of early modern philosophy.

A central concern in Hume scholarship is that of the relationship between Hume's early Treatise of Human Nature and his later Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding.

Bede and the Cosmos examines Bede's cosmology-his understanding of the universe and its laws.

Karen Ng sheds new light on Hegel's famously impenetrable philosophy.

Proposes a radically new interpretation of late medieval political thought by focusing on ideas of power and authority.

First Published in 1999.

This book examines the potential of conducting studies in comparative hagiology, through parallel literary and historical analyses of spiritual life writings pertaining to distinct religious contexts.

This work engages in a constructive, yet subtle, dialogue with the nuanced accounts of sensory intentionality and empirical knowledge offered by the Islamic philosopher Avicenna.

First published in 1905, this reissued edition of The Philosophical Works of Francis Bacon is an edited collection based upon the definitive seven volume edition of 1857, translated and prefaced by Robert Leslie Ellis and James Spedding.

This book is an insightful exploration of Aquinas''s views on how Christ could be both divine and human but still only be one person.

In The Metaphysics of the Material World, Tad M.

This book reconstructs and analyses Aquinas''s theories of efficient causation and causal powers.

A study of problems, all revolving around the subject of intellect in the philosophies of Alfarabi, Avicenna, and Averroes, this book starts by reviewing discussions in Greek and early Arabic philosophy which served as the background for the three Arabic thinkers.

Including both traditional and underrepresented accounts and geographies of soul, body, gender, and sexuality in late antique history, philosophy, and theology, this volume offers substantial re-readings of these and related concepts through theories of dis/embodiment.

A live issue in anthropology and development studies, humanism is not typically addressed by analytic philosophers.

Anik Waldow develops an account of embodied experience that extends from Descartes' conception of the human body as firmly integrated into the causal play of nature, to Kant's understanding of anthropology as a discipline that provides us with guidance in our lives as embodied creatures.

The nature and properties of angels occupied a prominent place in medieval philosophical inquiry.

This volume deals with the psychological, metaphysical and scientific ideas of two major and influential Aristotelian philosophers of the Italian Renaissance - Nicoletto Vernia (d.

Aquinas''s moral philosophy - the intrinsic connection between happiness and human good, human virtue, and the precepts of practical reason.

"e;[An] important essay by a philosopher who more convincingly than any other I can think of demonstrates the continuing significance of his vocation in the life of our culture.

The "e;Long Middle Ages"e; indicates a span of time extending from Antiquity, across the Middle Ages, to the Early Modern period.

Explores the cultural functions played in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries by accounts of the Bible''s origins.

Galenism, a rational, coherent medical system embracing all health and disease related matters, was the dominant medical doctrine in the Latin West during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

Anthony Celano''s study explores how medieval authors recast Aristotle''s Nicomachean Ethics according to their own moral ideals.

This book is a detailed and accessible look at one of the most exciting and contested works of Western philosophy.

This book explores noteworthy approaches to modal syllogistic adopted by medieval logicians including Abelard, Albert the Great, Avicenna, AverrA es, Jean Buridan, Richard Campsall, Robert Kilwardby, and William of Ockham.

This third collection of Charles Schmitt's articles complements the previous two and consists largely of studies published in the last few years of his life.

An unparalleled commentary on Thomas Aquinas''s Treatise on Law, providing a go-to text for one of the foundations of laws, ethics and morality.

This is an updated edition of John Cottingham''s acclaimed translation of Descartes''s philosophical masterpiece, including an abridgement of Descartes''s Objections and Replies.

In Machines of the Mind, Katharine Breen proposes that medieval personifications should be understood neither as failed novelistic characters nor as instruments of heavy-handed didacticism.

By any metric, Cicero's works are some of the most widely read in the history of Western thought.

How are processes of vision, perception, and sensation conceived in the Renaissance?

Through the concept of contraction, Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) endeavoured to explain the relationship of God to his Creation in a way that conformed with his pantheistic view of nature as well as his heterodox view of man's relationship to God.

This new and updated edition of Christopher Shields and Robert Pasnau's The Philosophy of Aquinas introduces the Aquinas' overarching explanatory framework in order to provide the necessary background to his philosophical investigations across a wide range of areas: rational theology, metaphysics, philosophy of human nature, philosophy of mind, and ethical and political theory.

Cosmopoiesis means world-making, and in this erudite, polemical book, Professor Mazzotta traces how major medieval and Renaissance thinkers invented their worlds through utopias, magic, science, art, and theatre.

Noonan shows that at the core of postmodern philosophy, with its claim that culture creates humans, is a concern to dethrone the modern understanding of human beings as subjects, as builders of their world and free when those world-building activities are the outcome of free choices.

Originally published in 1992 The Medieval Consolation of Philosophy is an annotated bibliography looking at the scholarship generated by the translations of the works of Boethius.

This book takes readers on a philosophical discovery of a forgotten treasure, one born in the 14th century but which appears to belong to the 21st.

The topic of certitude is much debated today.

This book provides a critical, up-to-date and original overview of the contemporary metaphysical debate on the problem of universals.

Rubens and the Eloquence of Drawing re-examines the early graphic practice of the preeminent northern Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640) in light of early modern traditions of eloquence, particularly as promoted in the late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Flemish, Neostoic circles of philologist, Justus Lipsius (1547-1606).

Compact but singularly well thought out material of a theological, logical, poetic as well as philosophical nature.

This book charts the evolution of Islamic dialectical theory (jadal) over a four-hundred year period.

This introduction to philosophy in the Latin West between 1150 and 1350 combines an historical approach, which concentrates on the sources, forms and backgrounds of the medieval works, with philosophical analysis of thirteenth and fourteenth-century writing in terms comprehensible to a modern reader.