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Book SynopsisWilling and Understanding elucidates a variety of issues in and approaches to debating the will-intellect interplay in the late Middle Ages. Authored by prominent scholars in the field, the contributions offer different perspectives on the development of late medieval theories of the will. Charting a dense map of voluntarist and epistemological ideas—entrenched leitmotifs of late medieval philosophy, seminal insights sparking original trends, and ephemeral novelties—the volume is a testimony to the conceptual multidimensionality and ethical complexity of the past and present iterations of the debate on the will. Contributors are Pascale Bermon, Magdalena Bieniak, Michael W. Dunne, Riccardo Fedriga, Giacomo Fornasieri, Tobias Hoffmann, Severin V. Kitanov, Monika Michałowska, Riccardo Saccenti, Sonja Schierbaum, Michael Szlachta, Łukasz Tomanek, and Francesco Omar Zamboni.
Table of ContentsPreface Notes on Contributors 1 The Complexity of Late Medieval Debates on the Will Introduction Riccardo Fedriga and Monika Michałowska 2 Fear and Conditional Will in Stephen Langton’s Quaestiones and in the Summa Halensis Magdalena Bieniak 3 What Tips the Scales? Volition, Motivation, and Choice in Faḫr al-Din al-Razi Francesco Omar Zamboni 4 How Do Intellect and Will Interact? Thomas Aquinas, Godfrey of Fontaines, and the Determination-Exercise Distinction Michael Szlachta 5 Understanding and Acting Deliberation, the Practical Intellect, and Moral Science at the University of Bologna (Gentile da Cingoli, Angelo d’Arezzo, and Cambiolo da Bologna) Riccardo Saccenti 6 John of Pouilly’s Intellectualist Reading of the March 7, 1277 Condemnation Tobias Hoffmann 7 Cognitive Attention and Impressions The Role of the Will in Peter Auriol’s Theory of Concept Formation Giacomo Fornasieri 8 Dissolving the Air of Inconsistency William Ockham on Virtuous Volitions and Cognitive Error Sonja Schierbaum 9 Hybernicus contra Thomam Richard FitzRalph on the Will and His Critique of Aquinas on the Primacy of the Intellect over the Will Michael W. Dunne 10 Cracking the Code of the Will Richard Kilvington on the Will and Logic Monika Michałowska 11 Adam Wodeham’s Analysis and Defense of Free Will Severin V. Kitanov 12 Gregory of Rimini and the Augustinian Theory of the Will Examples of a Mediaeval Reading of Augustine’s De libero arbitrio Pascale Bermon 13 Necessity, Contingency, and Free Will in John of Jandun and John Aurifaber of Halberstadt The Transmission of Ideas from Paris to Erfurt in the 14th Century Łukasz Tomanek Index of Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance Names Index of Modern Names
