Grounding in Medieval Philosophy

• Autore: Normore Calvin G
• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2024; ©2024
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (337 pages)
• Altri autori: SchmidStephan
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Prefatory Note -- Contents -- About the Editors -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Grounding Then and Now -- 1.1 The Classical Model of Science -- 1.2 Grounding and the Neo-aristotelian Turn in Metaphysics -- 1.3 The Pitfalls of Anachronism and the Logic of Grounding -- 1.4 Current State of Scholarship -- 1.5 Grounding Between Aristotle and Bolzano -- 1.6 In Search of a Regimented Use of Grounding Claims -- 1.7 Overview of the Chapters -- Works Cited -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Literature -- Chapter 2: Ontological Priority and Grounding in Aristotle's Categories -- 2.1 The Ontological Priority of Primary Substances -- 2.2 Modal-Existential Priority -- 2.3 Explanatory-Existential Priority -- 2.4 Essentialist Priority and Grounding -- Works Cited -- Chapter 3: Grounding and Aristotle's Posterior Analytics -- 3.1 Formal Cause in the Posterior Analytics -- 3.2 Two Crucial Differences from Standard Accounts of Grounding -- 3.3 Some Further Differences -- 3.4 Truthmaking Rather than Grounding? -- 3.5 Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Chapter 4: Ground in Avicenna's Logic -- 4.1 Essence and Modality -- 4.1.1 Essence and Definition -- 4.2 Ground and Essence -- 4.2.1 Identity and Truth -- 4.3 Ground and Implicate -- 4.3.1 Logic as an Aristotelian Science -- 4.4 Conclusion -- Appendix -- Works Cited -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Literature -- Chapter 5: Abelard on Grounding in Ontology and Logic -- 5.1 Grounding in Abelard's Ontology -- 5.2 Grounding and Logic -- Works Cited -- Ancient and Medieval Sources -- Modern Sources -- Untitled -- Untitled -- Untitled -- Chapter 6: Grounding Medieval Consequence -- 6.1 Grounding Consequence in Modern and Later Medieval Logic -- 6.1.1 Grounding Consequence Today -- 6.1.2 Formal Consequence in Later Medieval Logic -- 6.1.3 Comparing Buridanian and Post-Tarskian Groundings of Consequence. ; 6.2 The Roots of Medieval consequentiae in Hypothetical Syllogistic and Topical Argument -- 6.2.1 Maximal Propositions as Grounds of Consequence -- 6.2.2 Boethian Topical Theory as Ground of Hypothetical Syllogistic -- 6.2.3 The Limits of Boethius' Grounding of Consequence -- 6.3 Medieval Consequence and the Theory of Supposition -- 6.3.1 Canonical Supposition Theory: Ockham and Buridan -- 6.3.2 Supposition Theory in Two Early British De consequentiis -- 6.3.3 An Alternate Reading of Personal Supposition in the Parisian De consequentiis -- 6.3.4 Supposition in Burley's De puritate artis logicae -- 6.4 Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Medieval Sources -- Modern Sources -- Chapter 7: Thomas Aquinas, Henry of Ghent, and John Duns Scotus on the Causation of Proper and Inseparable Accidents -- 7.1 Proper, Inseparable, and Essential Features -- 7.2 Logicians and the propria -- 7.3 The Causal Approach -- 7.4 The Self-Agency View: Henry of Ghent -- 7.5 Self-Agency Defended Again: John Duns Scotus against Godfrey of Fontaines -- 7.6 Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Ancient and Medieval Sources -- Modern Sources -- Chapter 8: Ockham on Priority and Posteriority -- 8.1 The Texts -- 8.2 Stock Types and Stock Examples -- 8.3 Two Ways to Be Ordered -- 8.4 Extrinsic Ordering -- 8.5 Priority in Time or Place -- 8.6 Simultaneity in Time or Place -- 8.7 Causal and Natural Priority -- 8.8 Necessary and Necessarily Co-extensive Items -- 8.9 Natural Priority and Time -- 8.10 Separable Items -- 8.11 Natural Priority in Nature -- 8.12 An Underspecified Example -- 8.13 Priority vs. Dependence -- 8.14 Other Notions of Natural Priority -- 8.15 Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Medieval Sources -- Secondary Literature -- Chapter 9: William of Ockham on Essential Dependence and Causation -- 9.1 An Essential Dependence Theory of Causation -- 9.1.1 Regularity Rules. ; 9.1.2 Essential Dependence as Counterfactual Dependence -- 9.1.3 Background Conditions and Cases of Overdetermination -- 9.2 In Search of a Ground -- 9.2.1 The Identity Conditions of a Causal Process -- 9.2.2 There Is No Explanation -- 9.3 Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Medieval Sources -- Modern Sources -- Chapter 10: The Incoherence of Ockham's Ethics -- 10.1 Omnipotence -- 10.2 Why God Can't Hate God -- 10.3 Why God Can Command us to Hate God -- 10.4 How Can God Make Hating God Right? -- 10.5 Merely Commanded to Love God? -- 10.6 Distinguishing the Good from the Right? -- 10.7 A Disappointing Choice -- Works Cited -- Medieval Sources -- Secondary Literature -- Chapter 11: Up in the Air: Buridan's Principled Rejection of Grounding -- 11.1 Whence Grounding? -- 11.2 Buridan's Semantic Framework -- 11.3 Truth and Correspondence -- 11.4 Stability? -- 11.5 Truth as Default -- 11.6 Closing the Gaps -- 11.7 Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Medieval Sources -- Modern Sources -- Chapter 12: Valid on Formal Grounds -- 12.1 Kant and Bolzano -- 12.2 The Early Medieval Arabic and Latin Traditions -- 12.3 Robert Kilwardby -- 12.4 John Buridan -- 12.5 Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Medieval and Modern Sources -- Secondary Literature -- Chapter 13: Two Kinds of Grounding? Suárez on Natural Resultance and Foundation -- 13.1 Substantialism and Deflationism about Grounding -- 13.2 Suárez's Theory of the Powers of the Soul -- 13.3 Suárez's Theory of Propositional Truth -- 13.4 Natural Resultance and Foundation: Two Kinds of Grounding? -- 13.5 Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Ancient and Late-Medieval Sources -- Secondary Literature -- Chapter 14: Some Work for a Theory of Grounding? -- 14.1 No Work for a Theory of Grounding -- 14.1.1 Wilson on Grounding -- 14.1.2 Wilson's Positive Thesis -- 14.2 Metaphysical Dependence and History: Our Own and That of Others -- 14.2.1 Leibniz. ; 14.2.2 Fazang and the Jewel Net of Indra -- 14.3 What Work? -- 14.3.1 Falsehoods and the Concepts Needed to Engage with Them -- 14.3.2 The Possibilities -- 14.4 Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: Grounding in Medieval Philosophy
• ISBN: 3-031-53666-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910857789903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Historical-Analytical Studies on Nature, Mind and Action Series