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Book SynopsisThis volume provides a reliable point of entrance to the thought of Duns Scotus while giving a snapshot of some of the best research that is now being done on this difficult but intellectually rewarding thinker.
Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. John Duns Scotus's life in context Stephen D. Dumont; 2. The modal framework of Duns Scotus's argument for the existence of a first cause Richard Cross; 3. Duns Scotus on essential order in De primo principio and elsewhere Thomas M. Ward; 4. Duns Scotus on how God causes the created will's volitions Gloria Frost; 5. Duns Scotus on free will and human agency Martin Pickavé; 6. Duns Scotus on the dignities of human nature Marylin McCord Adams; 7. Duns Scotus on matter and form Cecilia Trifogli; 8. Duns Scotus, intuitionism, and the third sense of 'natural law' Thomas Williams; 9. The bound of sense – adequacy and abstraction in the later works of Duns Scotus Wouter Goris; 10. Before univocity – Duns Scotus's rejection of analogy Giorgio Pini; 11. Analogy after Duns Scotus: the role of the analogia entis in the Scotist metaphysics at Barcelona, 1320–1330 Garrett R. Smith.
