Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I essence, existence, and the nature of metaphysics
6. 1 Duns Scotus on Metaphysics as the Science of First Entity 9
7. 2 Aquinas vs. Buridan on Essence and Existence 30
8. Part II form and matter
9. 3 The Form of Corporeity and Potential and Aptitudinal Being in Dietrich von Freiberg’s Defense of the Doctrine of the Unity of Substantial Form 45
10. 4 Accidents in Scotus’s Metaphysics Commentary 84
11. Part III universals
12. 5 Avicenna Latinus on the Ontology of Types and Tokens 101
13. 6 Universal Thinking as Pro cess: The Metaphysics of Change and Identity in John Buridan’s Intellectio Theory 137
14. Part IV language, logic, and metaphysics
15. 7 Can God Know More? A Case Study in Later Medieval Discussions of Propositions 159
16. 8 The Power of Medieval Logic 188
17. 9 Iteration and Infinite Regress in Walter Chatton’s Metaphysics 206
18. 10 Analogy and Meta phor from Thomas Aquinas to Duns Scotus and Walter Burley 223
19. Notes 249
20. List of Contributors 301
21. Index 303