Studies in Medieval Philosophy, Science, and Logic

Collected Papers 1933–1969

Ernest A. Moody

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9780520358799
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780520312272
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: European Medieval History
• Index: History

Students of medieval thought have long been stimulated by the work of Ernest A. Moody. That intellectual debt should be increased by this volume, which brings together the significant shorter studies and essays he wrote in the period 1933 - 1969. The collection should be particularly useful to the medievalist who finds it difficult to see where the detailed monographic research of the past half-century is leading. An initial lengthy study, on William of Auvergne and his treatise De anima, has not hitherto appeared in print. Five of the essays deal with late medieval physics and its relation to the mechanics of Galileo; others bear on medieval logic and philosophy of language, with reference to contemporary treatments of those subjects; and several studies are concerned with the historical and philosophical significance of Ockham, Buridan, and the via moderna of the fourteenth century. In his Introduction Moody discusses the development of his interests in medieval thoughts and offers some critical reflections on the essays. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1975.

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
• William of Auvergne and His Treatise De Anima
• John Buridan on the Habitability of the Earth
• Ockham, Buridan, and Nicholas of Autrecourt
• Ockham and Aegidius of Rome
• Laws of Motion in Medieval Physics
• Galileo and Avempace
• Empiricism and Metaphysics in Medieval Philosophy501
• The Age of Analysis*
• A Quodlibetal Question of Robert Holkot, O. P. on the Problem of the Objects of Knowledge and of Belief 529
• Buridan and a Dilemma of Nominalism
• The Medieval Contribution to Logic
• Galileo and His Precursors
• William of Ockham
• Jean Buridan