Western Philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600

While humanists agreed on identifying the main requirement of the historical genre with truthfulness, they disagreed on their notions of historical...

Thomas Aquinas's classic Treatise on the One God is one of the greatest works ever written in the history of philosophy and theology. During the fi...

The Medieval period was one of the richest eras for the philosophical study of religion. Covering the period from the 6th to the 16th century, reac...

Fifteen of these essays by one of the leading authorities on Renaissance Platonism explore the complex philosophical, hermeneutical, and mythologic...

The mid-twentieth century saw a change in paradigms of art history: iconology. The main claim of this novel trend in art history was that renowned ...

Medieval debates over divine creation are systematically obscured in our age by the conflict between Intelligent Design Creationists and Evolutioni...

This is a revised critical edition of philosopher and scientist, Francesco Patrizi's manuscript, Il Delfino, overo del bacio (c.1555), with an Engl...

Two of the most notable figures from the Middle Agesthe volatile, brilliant Abelard and the equally brilliant Heloisebecame the parents of their so...

It's frequently said that we live in a post-truth age. That obviously can't be true, but it does name a real problem on our hands. Getting things r...

This book sets out a thematic presentation of human action, especially as it relates to morality, in the three most significant figures in Medieval...

An important milestone of 20th Century philosophy was the rise of personalism. After the crimes and atrocities against millions of human beings in ...

Since the first decade of the 14th Century, Thomas Aquinas's disciples have struggled to explain and defend his doctrine of analogy. Analogy after ...

The Metaphysical Foundations of Love: Aquinas on Participation, Unity, and Union offers a systematic treatment of St. Thomas Aquinas's account of t...

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...

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....

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...

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...