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Understanding and truth in Hannah Arendt: The critical reception of the Eichmann trial and the will

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract This article highlights a shift in Hannah Arendt's intellectual development regarding the will during the 1960s, traced into the early 1970s when she focused on thinking, willing, and judging. I argue that this change was driven by reactions to her report on Adolf Eichmann's 1961 trial in Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963).
Andrew Song
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Modal Logic and Modal Metaphysics: An Avicennian Division of Labour

Theoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper argues that Avicenna was both a necessitarian and a realist about contingency. The two aspects of his modal metaphysics are reconciled by arguing that Avicenna's modal metaphysics is founded on realism about essences: strictly speaking, an individual has no contingent properties, but a modal distinction can be made between the ...
Jari Kaukua
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Duns Scotus’s Theory of Common Natures

Filosofia Unisinos, 2021
This paper looks at some of Duns Scotus’s innovations in the theory of common nature. Scotus criticized the dominant scholastic theory of universals, according to which natures are of themselves individual but are somehow correctly conceived by the mind
Dónall McGinley
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Palamism Does Not Disfigure the Gospel: A Reply to Thomas Weinandy

International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 28, Issue 3, Page 242-266, July 2026.
Abstract In a 2024 article in the IJST, Fr. Thomas Weinandy argues that the theological system of Gregory Palamas is in grave error, especially with respect to its commitment to an objective ontological distinction between God's essence and His energies. In his concluding paragraph Fr.
Travis Dumsday
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Suárez on the Contingency of Causal Origin

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 112, Issue 3, Page 694-706, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Do individuals have their actual causal origins necessarily? Or could one and the same individual also have had a causal origin other than its actual one? Late medieval and early modern Aristotelians confront this question in the course of their discussions of the metaphysics of causation. In this paper, I discuss and evaluate Francisco Suárez'
Han Thomas Adriaenssen
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Duns Scotus and Peirce on the importance of Universais and Scientific Realism

Escritos, 2020
By offering a historical overview of the problem of universals and by focusing in the contributions of the medieval philosopher John Duns Scotus and the founder of American Pragmatism, Charles Peirce, the article introduces Peirce's insight on the ...
Paniel Reyes Cárdenas
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The Material and Textual Value of Manuscript and Print Binding Waste☆

Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 2, Page 166-189, April 2026.
Abstract In 2019, the Foundation of Christ's Hospital at Lincoln made a bequest of early printed books to the Bodleian Library. The collection is rich in sixteenth‐century tooled bindings, many of which preserve manuscript and printed waste in the form of pastedowns, endleaves and endleaf guards.
Tamara Atkin
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The Imitation by Not Imitating: Duns Scotus on Self-determined Rationality as Imago Dei in Humans

Nesir: Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi
The concept of imitation creates a paradoxical paradigm in Duns Scotus’ philosophy. Following the traditional framework, this medieval thinker considered rational power to be imago Dei, i.e., God’s image in humans.
Ana Lomadze
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Thomas Aquinas on the Predestination of Christ

Modern Theology, Volume 41, Issue 4, Page 684-705, October 2025.
Abstract In this article, I examine the development of Thomas's doctrine of the predestination of Christ against the broader backdrop of thirteenth‐century scholasticism, highlighting its distinctively Christocentric character. Pauline texts (Eph. 1:4; Rom.
Joshua H. Lim
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Fraqueza da vontade no voluntarismo?: investigações sobre João Duns Scotus

Veritas, 2005
Neste estudo, investiga-se a possibilidade de uma análise, por parte de Duns Scotus, do clássico problema de filosofia moral localizado na fraqueza da vontade. Argumentando de modo crítico para a identificação do tema na ética scotista, o autor acaba por
Müller, Jörn
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