Safeguarding free will : William Ockham, Walter Chatton, and Richard Kilvington on the Will

Authors

Riccardo Fedriga (ed)
University of Bologna, Italy
Monika Michałowska (ed)
Medical University of Łódź, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9415-389X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12797/9788381387415

Keywords:

Medieval Philosophy, 14th-Century Ethics, Oxford Calculators, Philosophy of Action, Logic of Freedom, Compatibilism

Synopsis

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.

Chapters

  • TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • Introduction .......... 9
  • PART I. WILLIAM OCKHAM AN ACTION-GUIDING SENSE OF FREEDOM
  • Chapter 1. Will, Mind, and Free Action Ockham’s Way out of Fatalism .......... 15
  • Chapter 2. The Logic of Belief as a Pragmatics of Freedom .......... 41
  • Chapter 3. Signs, Rules, and Prophecies: An Action-Guiding Sense to Freedom .......... 67
  • PART II. THE COMPLEX AND MULTIFARIOUS NATURE OF THE WILL AND ITS ACTS
  • Chapter 4. Walter Chatton on the Will and Its Acts .......... 89
  • Chapter 5. Second-Order Volitions .......... 115
  • PART III. THE WILL AND TIME
  • Chapter 6. The Will, Time, and Simultaneous Contradictories The Origin of the Problem .......... 139
  • Chapter 7. Act in a Decent Way Free Will, Charity, and Instilled Grace .......... 155
  • Chapter 8. Richard Kilvington on the Will’s Acting and Time .......... 169

Author Biographies

Riccardo Fedriga, University of Bologna, Italy

University professor in history of ideas at the University of Bologna. His research areas are late medieval philosophy of mind and action; the conceptual translation between historical and philosophical models of representation of knowledge; social ontology and intentionality.

Monika Michałowska, Medical University of Łódź, Poland

University professor at the Medical University of Łódź. Her research focuses on late medieval ethics and theology, espe- cially concepts of the will. She works on Richard Kilvington’s philosophy and theology. She has published critical editions of Richard Kilvington’s Questions on the Ethics and Questions on the Sentences.

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November 28, 2022

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978-83-8138-741-5