Safeguarding free will : William Ockham, Walter Chatton, and Richard Kilvington on the Will
Keywords:
Medieval Philosophy, 14th-Century Ethics, Oxford Calculators, Philosophy of Action, Logic of Freedom, CompatibilismSynopsis
This book features an array of varied issues that made up the much-debated will problem in late medieval philosophy and theology. It discusses concepts of the will produced in the first half of the fourteenth century, whereby its special focus is on the ideas that sprang up and evolved at Oxford in the 1330s. Its aim is to shed some light on the concepts of the will hatched at that time by exploring the themes and approaches adopted by William Ockham, Walter Chatton, and Richard Kilvington.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Introduction .......... 9
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PART I. WILLIAM OCKHAM AN ACTION-GUIDING SENSE OF FREEDOM
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Chapter 1. Will, Mind, and Free Action Ockham’s Way out of Fatalism .......... 15
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Chapter 2. The Logic of Belief as a Pragmatics of Freedom .......... 41
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Chapter 3. Signs, Rules, and Prophecies: An Action-Guiding Sense to Freedom .......... 67
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PART II. THE COMPLEX AND MULTIFARIOUS NATURE OF THE WILL AND ITS ACTS
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Chapter 4. Walter Chatton on the Will and Its Acts .......... 89
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Chapter 5. Second-Order Volitions .......... 115
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PART III. THE WILL AND TIME
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Chapter 6. The Will, Time, and Simultaneous Contradictories The Origin of the Problem .......... 139
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Chapter 7. Act in a Decent Way Free Will, Charity, and Instilled Grace .......... 155
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Chapter 8. Richard Kilvington on the Will’s Acting and Time .......... 169
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