History of Western Philosophy

What is the measure of ethics? What is the measure of justice? And how do we come to measure the immeasurability of these questions? Thinking the P...

Étienne Gilson (1884-1978) was a French philosopher and historian of philosophy, as well as a scholar of medieval philosophy. In 1946 he attained t...

Eternal Life and Human Happiness in Heaven treats four apparent problems concerning eternal life in order to clarify our thinking about perfect hum...

There are two great traditions of natural-kinds realism: the modern, instituted by Mill and elaborated by Venn, Peirce, Kripke, Putnam, Boyd, and o...

Thomas Aquinas and His Predecessors takes us on a voyage through the history of philosophical thought as present in the works of Thomas Aquinas. It...

Navigating the seemingly competing claims of human reason and divine revelation to truth is without a doubt one of the central problems of medieval...

In light of current interest in the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas, rediscovery of the work of John Capreolus (1380-1444) is particularly important....

The Wayfarers End follows the human persons journey to union with God in the theologies of Saint Bonaventure and Saint Thomas Aquinas. It argues th...

This work is the first English translation of Scotuss commentary on Aristotles Quaestiones super Praedicamenta. Although there are numerous Latin c...

Aquinas on Emotion's Participation in Reason aims to present Aquinas's answer to the perennial and now popular question: In what way can the emotio...

The book considers Thomas More's early life-choices. An early letter is cited by biographers but most miss More's reference to the market place. Mo...

St. Thomas Aquinas never commented on the Song of Songs. The purpose of this book is to demonstrate, however, that he meditated on it and absorbed ...

Duns Scotus (c. 1265-1308) is one of a handful of figures in the history of philosophy whose significance is truly difficult to overestimate. Despi...

Anselm of Canterbury is an important and early source of two key themes in Western thought and religion that are hard to reconcile. In his argument...

Critical edition of articles 6367 of Henrys Summa on personal identity, equality and similitudeTheologian and Scholastic philosopher Henry of Ghent...

This volume collects written and visual works that engage with opportunities of ancient practice from within the continental tradition. More than s...

One of the greatest philosophical works of all time, in a new translation for the twenty-first century'The final philosopher to perform the most pr...

Book Four of the Summa Contra Gentiles examines what God has revealed through scripture, specifically the Trinity, the Incarnation, and the end of ...

Simo Knuuttila was an influential philosopher, theologian, and historian of philosophy who conducted research on a variety of topics including moda...

Hans Reichenbach (18911953) was a formidable figure in early-twentieth-century philosophy of science. Educated in Germany, he was influential in es...