Medieval Metaphysics (PHIL 6000) Fall 2022
- Syllabus
- Readings
- Augustine, On Free Choice of Will
Bks. 1-2
- Anselm, On Freedom of Choice
- Ibn Sīnā, on causation:
Shifāʾ Metaphysics Bk. VI
- Ibn Sīnā, selections on determinism
- Al-Ghazālī, Incoherence
of the Philosophers discussion 17
(occasionalism)
- Ibn Rushd, Incoherence
of the Incoherence, response to the
previous
- Note that this text
also incorporates the al-Ghazālī text contained in the
previous translation
- Siger of Brabant, On the Necessity and Contingency of Causes
- Thomas Aquinas
- Peter John Olivi, selections on free will
- John Duns Scotus, selections
- Marguerite Porete, Mirror
of Simple Souls chs. 1-13
- Christine de Pizan, Vision bk. 2.
- Luis de Molina on divine
foreknowledge, disputations 51-52
- Martin Luther, De
servo arbitrio excerpts