Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy Volume 7

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Current Work ◽  
Medieval Philosophy ◽  
Original Essays ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Extended Review

Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy annually collects the best current work in the field of medieval philosophy. The various volumes print original essays, reviews, critical discussions, and editions of texts. The aim is to contribute to an understanding of the full range of themes and problems in all aspects of the field, from late antiquity into the Renaissance, and extending over the Jewish, Islamic, and Christian traditions. Volume 6 includes work on a wide range of topics, including Davlat Dadikhuda on Avicenna, Christopher Martin on Abelard’s ontology, Jeremy Skrzypek and Gloria Frost on Aquinas’s ontology, Jean‐Luc Solère on instrumental causality, Peter John Hartman on Durand of St.‐Pourçain, and Kamil Majcherek on Chatton’s rejection of final causality. The volume also includes an extended review of Thomas Williams of a new book on Aquinas’s ethics by Colleen McCluskey.

Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy Volume 6

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Current Work ◽  
Medieval Philosophy ◽  
Original Essays ◽  
Islamic Tradition ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Marguerite Porete ◽  
The Relationship

Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy annually collects the best current work in the field of medieval philosophy. The various volumes print original essays, reviews, critical discussions, and editions of texts. The aim is to contribute to an understanding of the full range of themes and problems in all aspects of the field, from late antiquity into the Renaissance, and extending over the Jewish, Islamic, and Christian traditions. Volume 6 includes work on a wide range of topics, including Tianyue Wu on Augustine’s theory of predestination, Fedor Benevich on the reality of non-existent objects within the Islamic tradition, Laurent Cesalli and Irène Rosier-Catach on Roger Bacon’s semantics, Therese Scarpelli Cory on Thomas Aquinas’s attitude toward empiricism, Jeffrey Hause on fraternal correction in later medieval ethics, Peter King on the relationship between Marguerite Porete and Godfrey of Fontaines, and Can Laurens Löwe on John Buridan’s views about the individuation of powers.

Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy Volume 9

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Current Work ◽  
Divine Command ◽  
Divine Command Theory ◽  
Medieval Philosophy ◽  
Original Essays

Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy annually collects the best current work in the field of medieval philosophy. The various volumes print original essays, reviews, critical discussions, and editions of texts. The aim is to contribute to an understanding of the full range of themes and problems in all aspects of the field, from late antiquity into the Renaissance, and extending over the Jewish, Islamic, and Christian traditions. Volume 9 ranges widely over this terrain, including Mark Kalderon on Augustine’s theory of perception, Alexander Lamprakis on belief in miracles among Baghdad Christian philosophers, Andreas Lammer on Avicenna on time, Ana María Mora-Márquez on logical methodology, Franziska van Buren on Bonaventure’s theory of universals, Eric Hagedorn on Ockham’s divine-command theory, and Dominik Perler on exemplar causes in Suárez.

Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy Volume 8

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Full Range ◽  
The Body ◽  
Current Work ◽  
Medieval Philosophy ◽  
Original Essays ◽  
Walter Burley

Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy annually collects the best current work in the field of medieval philosophy. The various volumes print original essays, reviews, critical discussions, and editions of texts. The aim is to contribute to an understanding of the full range of themes and problems in all aspects of the field, from late antiquity into the Renaissance, and extending over the Jewish, Islamic, and Christian traditions. Volume 8 ranges widely over this terrain, including Caleb Cohoe on Augustine on happiness; Susan Brower-Toland on Augustine on perception; Mary Sirridge on Seneca’s influence on Anselm; Taneli Kukkonen on al-Ghazālī’s meditations in comparison with later traditions; David Cory on how Aquinas’s soul moves the body; Michael Szlachta on Thomas of Sutton’s theory of will; Nathaniel Bulthuis on Walter Burley and opaque signification; and Jenny Pelletier on Ockham’s theory of ownership.

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Ancient Philosophy ◽  
Perceptual Content ◽  
Current Work ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Original Essays ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Middle Ages

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy provides, twice each year, a collection of the best current work in the field of ancient philosophy. Each volume features original essays that contribute to an understanding of a wide range of themes and problems in all periods of ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, from the beginnings to the threshold of the Middle Ages. From its first volume in 1983, OSAP has been a highly influential venue for work in the field, and has often featured essays of substantial length as well as critical essays on books of distinctive importance. Volume LIII contains: an article on several of Zeno of Elea’s paradoxes and the nihilist interpretation of Eudemus of Rhodes; an article on the coherence of Thrasymachus’ challenge in Plato’s Republic book 1; another on Plato’s treatment of perceptual content in the Theaetetus and the Phaedo; an article on why Aristotle thinks that hypotheses are material causes of conclusions, and another on why he denies shame is a virtue; and a book review of a new edition of a work possibly by Apuleius and Middle Platonist political philosophy.

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Volume 52

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Theory Of Measurement ◽  
Ancient Philosophy ◽  
Current Work ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Original Essays ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Middle Ages

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy provides, twice each year, a collection of the best current work in the field of ancient philosophy. Each volume features original essays that contribute to an understanding of a wide range of themes and problems in all periods of ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, from its beginnings to the threshold of the Middle Ages. From its first volume in 1983, OSAP has been a highly influential venue for work in the field, and has often featured essays of substantial length as well as critical essays on books of distinctive importance. Volume LII contains an article on Anaxagoras’ theory of the intellect, another on Presocratic epistemology and stage-painting, one on Plato’s Euthyphro and another on his Parmenides, one on the varieties of pleasure in Plato and Aristotle, and three on Aristotle: his views on the analysis of arguments, theory of measurement, and the coincidental causes of actions.

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Volume 56

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Mathematical Knowledge ◽  
Ancient Philosophy ◽  
External World ◽  
The State ◽  
Current Work ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Original Essays ◽  
Wide Range

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy provides, twice each year, a collection of the best current work in the field of ancient philosophy. Each volume features original essays that contribute to an understanding of a wide range of themes and problems in all periods of ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, from the beginnings to the threshold of the middle ages. From its first volume in 1983, OSAP has been a highly influential venue for work in the field, and has often featured essays of substantial length as well as critical essays on books of distinctive importance. Volume LVI contains: a reconstruction of the Pythagorean Philolaus’ metaphysics and the role of harmony within it; a reading of the Timaeus as a presentation of Plato’s own systematic views; an argument that while Plato often treats pleasure as the process of replenishing our natural balance, he treats pain asymmetrically as the state of imbalance; a defence of the place of Aristotle’s distinction between activity and change in Metaphysics Book Theta; an investigation of the precise sources of disturbance from which the Pyrrhonist seeks release; and Augustine’s defence of infallible knowledge in the Contra Academicos, in particular his semantic response to external world scepticism and the appeal to mathematical knowledge.

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Volume 59

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Ancient Philosophy ◽  
Current Work ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Original Essays ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Middle Ages

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy provides, twice each year, a collection of the best current work in the field of ancient philosophy. Each volume features original essays that contribute to an understanding of a wide range of themes and problems in all periods of ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, from the beginnings to the threshold of the middle ages. From its first volume in 1983, OSAP has been a highly influential venue for work in the field, and has often featured essays of substantial length as well as critical essays on books of distinctive importance. Volume LIX contains an examination of: Aristotle’s reception of Empedocles’ ideas about harmonia and love in developing his own conception of the soul; Plato’s portrayal of the disembodied soul and how it can be the subject of bodily desires; how the philosopher rulers in Plato’s Republic are motivated to rule through bonds of philia to their fellow citizens; how Aristotle, while denying that there are magnitudes that are actually infinite, allows that there are infinitely many things; Aristotle’s distinction between the many senses of being in MetaphysicsΔ‎. 7 and the relation between existence and predication; and the explanation of Carneades’ reasons for not writing philosophical works in Philodemus’ Index Academicorum (PHerc. 1021).

Tassos Papacostas and Maria Parani (eds.), Discipuli dona ferentes. Glimpses of Byzantium in Honour of Marlia Mundell Mango. Β υζ ά ν τ ι ο ς. Studies in Byzantine History and Civilization 11. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2017. XXX, 486, 111 b/w figures.

Mediaevistik ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 333-337
Author(s):  
Natalia Teteriatnikov
Keyword(s):  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Present Volume ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Byzantine Period ◽  
The University ◽  
Vast Territory ◽  
Byzantine History

The present volume is a tribute to Marlia Mango on the occasion of her retirement from the University service of Kings College, Oxford University. All essays, written by her students, offer the result of their research and express a profound gratitude to their teacher. The essays tackle a wide range of subjects covering a vast territory from Constantinople to its periphery as well as Italy. Chronologically diverse, research materials span from late antiquity to the late Byzantine period.

The Major Transitions in Evolution

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Maynard Smith ◽  
Eors Szathmary
Keyword(s):  
Full Range ◽  
Evolution Of Cooperation ◽  
Major Transitions ◽  
Insect Societies ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Major Transition ◽  
Life Itself ◽  
History Of ◽  
Emergence Of Cooperation ◽  
Multicellular Organisms

Over the history of life there have been several major changes in the way genetic information is organized and transmitted from one generation to the next. These transitions include the origin of life itself, the first eukaryotic cells, reproduction by sexual means, the appearance of multicellular plants and animals, the emergence of cooperation and of animal societies, and the unique language ability of humans. This ambitious book provides the first unified discussion of the full range of these transitions. The authors highlight the similarities between different transitions--between the union of replicating molecules to form chromosomes and of cells to form multicellular organisms, for example--and show how understanding one transition sheds light on others. They trace a common theme throughout the history of evolution: after a major transition some entities lose the ability to replicate independently, becoming able to reproduce only as part of a larger whole. The authors investigate this pattern and why selection between entities at a lower level does not disrupt selection at more complex levels. Their explanation encompasses a compelling theory of the evolution of cooperation at all levels of complexity. Engagingly written and filled with numerous illustrations, this book can be read with enjoyment by anyone with an undergraduate training in biology. It is ideal for advanced discussion groups on evolution and includes accessible discussions of a wide range of topics, from molecular biology and linguistics to insect societies.

Coleridge and Contemplation

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Historical Background ◽  
New Developments ◽  
English Departments ◽  
Original Essays ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Romantic Era ◽  
Renaissance Man ◽  
Dynamic Quality ◽  
Philosophical Writings

In his philosophical writings, Coleridge increasingly developed his thinking about imagination, a symbolizing precursor to contemplation, to a theory of contemplation itself, which for him occurs in its purest form as a manifestation of ‘Reason’. Coleridge is a particularly challenging figure because he was a thinker in process, and something of an omnimath, a Renaissance man of the Romantic era. The dynamic quality of his thinking, the ‘dark fluxion’ pursued but ultimately ‘unfixable by thought’, and his extensive range of interests make essential an approach that is philosophical yet also multi-disciplinary. This is the first collection of essays to be written mainly by philosophers and intellectual historians on a wide range of Coleridge’s philosophical writings. With a foreword by Baroness Mary Warnock, and original essays on Coleridge and Contemplation by prominent philosophers such as Sir Roger Scruton, David E. Cooper, Michael McGhee, and Andy Hamilton, this volume provides a stimulating collection of insights and explorations into what Britain’s foremost philosopher-poet had to say about the contemplation that he considered to be the highest of the human mental powers. The essays by philosophers are supported by new developments in philosophically minded criticism from Coleridge scholars in English departments, including Jim Mays, Kathleen Wheeler, and James Engell. They approach Coleridge as an energetic yet contemplative thinker concerned with the intuition of ideas and the processes of cultivation in self and society. Other essays, from intellectual historians and theologians, clarify the historical background, and ‘religious musings’, of Coleridge’s thought regarding contemplation.

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