Phl 591 Ph.D. Readings in Medieval Philosophy

Fall 2005

Professor Edward Wierenga
Office: Rush Rhees Library 430
Hours: Monday and Wednesday, 1:00-1:50, or by appointment
Phone: x5-9370 (office), x5-5378 (department)
email: edwd@troi.cc.rochester.edu

Weekly Meetings on Wednesday, 11:00-12:30 in Rush Rhees Library 442.

Schedule:

Sept. 7:

Organization

Sept. 14:

Augustine, On Free Choice of the Will, Books I and II

Sept. 21:

Augustine, On Free Choice of the Will, Book III
William Rowe, "Augustine on Foreknowledge and Free Will," Review of Metaphysics 18 (1965): 356-363.

Sept. 28:

Augustine, Confessions Ch. 11
Gareth B. Matthews, "Time and Creation," ch. 9 of his Augustine (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005).
Simo Knuuttila, "Time and Creation in Augustine," in Eleonore Stump and Norman Kretzmann, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Augustine (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), pp. 103-115.

Oct. 5:

Augustine, De Trinitate, Books 10-11
Gareth B. Matthews, "Mind-Body Dualism," ch. 6 of his Augustine
Roland Teske, "Augustine's Theory of the Soul," in The Cambridge Companion to Augustine, pp. 116-123.

Oct. 12:

Anselm, Monologion, 17-24
Anselm, Proslogion, 13, 18-19
Wierenga, Edward, "Omnipresence", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2005 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2005/entries/omnipresence/.
Edward Wierenga, "Anselm on Omnipresence," New Scholasticism 52 (1988): 30-41.

Oct. 19 No meeting

Oct. 26:

Anselm, Proslogion, esp. 1-3
Gaunilo, Pro Insipiente ("On Behalf of the Fool")
Anselm, "Reply to Gaunilo"
David Lewis, "Anselm and Actuality," Noûs 4 (1970): 175-188; reprinted in David Lewis, Philosophical Papers, Vol 1 (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983), pp. 10-25.

Nov. 2

Anselm, "Why God Became Man" (Cur Deus Homo)
David Brown, "Anselm on the Atonement" in Davies and Leftow, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Anselm
Richard Swinburne, "The Christian Scheme of Atonement," in Thomas V. Morris, ed., Philosophy and the Christian Faith (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1988), pp. 15-30.

Nov. 9: Aquinas on Simplicity

Aquinas, Summa Theologica Ia, q. 3, a. 1-8.
Nicholas Wolterstorff, "Divine Simplicity," in James Tomberlin, ed., Philosophical Perspectives, V (1991): 531-552
Jeffrey Brower, "Making Sense of Divine Simplicity" (unpublished).

Nov. 16: Aquinas on Various Divine Attributes

Aquinas, Summa Theologica Ia, q. 4-11, and q. 25.
Eleonore Stump and Norman Kretzmann, "Eternity," Journal of Philosophy 78 (1981): 429-458.
Joshua Spencer, "Two Mereological Arguments against the Possibility of an Omniscient Being" (Philo, forthcoming).

Nov. 23 No meeting

Nov. 30: Aquinas on the Atonement

Summa Theologica, III, q. 46-48.
Summa contra Gentiles, IV, 55.
Eleonore Stump, "Atonement according to Aquinas," in Thomas V. Morris, ed., Philosophy and the Christian Faith (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1988), pp. 61-91
Swinburne again

Dec. 7: Aquinas on the Will

Summa Theologica, Ia, q. 82-83.
Norman Kretzmann, "Philosophy of Mind," in Norman Kretzmann and Eleonore Stump, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Aquinas (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), pp. 128-159.
Eleonore Stump, "Freedom: Action, Intellect, and Will," Ch. 9 of her Aquinas (London and New York: Routledge, 2003), pp. 277-306.

Preliminary Outline (handout with potential topics and readings)

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