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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792536703321

Autore

Bornholdt Jon

Titolo

Walter Chatton on future contingents : between formalism and ontology / / By Jon Bornholdt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Brill Nijhoff, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

90-04-33834-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (550 pages)

Collana

Investigating Medieval Philosophy, , 1879-9787 ; ; Volume 11

Disciplina

123

Soggetti

Philosophy, Medieval

Future contingents (Logic)

Free will and determinism

Philosophical theology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Introduction: History and Logical Analysis of the Problem -- Translations of Chatton’s Reportatio super Sententias I, dd. 38–41 and Quodlibet, qq. 27–29 -- Commentary -- Natural-Deduction Derivations of the Pattern Arguments -- Bibliography -- Indexes.

Sommario/riassunto

In Walter Chatton on Future Contingents , Jon Bornholdt presents the first full-length translation, commentary, and analysis of the various attempts by Chatton (14th century C.E.) to solve the ancient problem of the status and significance of statements about the future. At issue is the danger of so-called logical determinism: if it is true now that a human will perform a given action tomorrow, is that human truly free to perform or refrain from performing that action? Bornholdt shows that Chatton constructed an original (though problematic) formal analysis that enabled him to canvass various approaches to the problem at different stages of his career, at all times showing an unusual sensitivity to the tension between formalist and metaphysical types of solution.