Analytical Aquinas - Thomas Aquinas and analytic philosophy WF-FI-123-WMAN-PLO23
The aim of the course is to familiarize the student with contemporary perspectives of research on the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas. In the class, the student will become familiar with the analytical interpretation of Aquinas's philosophy, especially his metaphysics, epistemology and ethics.
(in Polish) Dyscyplina naukowa, do której odnoszą się efekty uczenia się
(in Polish) Grupa przedmiotów ogólnouczenianych
(in Polish) Opis nakładu pracy studenta w ECTS
Subject level
Learning outcome code/codes
Type of subject
Preliminary Requirements
Course coordinators
Learning outcomes
FI1_W03; FI1_W08;
FI1_U07; FI1_U10; FI1_U11;
FI1_K06
Assessment criteria
The assessment criterion will be an oral exam (conversation) concerning the chosen chapter in The Oxford Handbook of Aquinas. In order to pass an exam, student has to reconstruct the content of the chapter, present the main thesis of the article and its main arguments.
Practical placement
Does not concern
Bibliography
Ashworth, E. Jennifer, 2014, “Aquinas on Analogy”, in Jeffrey Hause (ed.), Debates in Medieval Philosophy, New York: Routledge, 232–42.
Brower, Jeffrey E., 2014, Aquinas’s Ontology of the Material World: Change, Hylomorphism, and Material Objects, New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198714293.001.0001
Brower, Jeffrey E., and Susan Brower-Toland, 2008, “Aquinas on Mental Representation: Concepts and Intentionality”, Philosophical Review, 117(2): 193–243. doi:10.1215/00318108-2007-036
Cory, Therese Scarpelli, 2022, “The Nature of Cognition and Knowledge”, in Stump and White (eds) 2022: 153–83 (ch. 7). doi:10.1017/9781009043595.011
Davies, Brian and Eleonore Stump (eds.), 2012, The Oxford Handbook of Aquinas, Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195326093.001.0001
De Haan, Daniel, 2019, “Aquinas on Sensing, Perceiving, Thinking, Understanding, and Cognizing Individuals”, in E. Băltuță (ed.), Medieval Perceptual Puzzles: Theories of Sense Perception in the 13th and 14th Centuries, Leiden: Brill, 238–68.
Kretzmann, Norman, 1997, The Metaphysics of Theism: Aquinas’s Natural Theology in Summa Contra Gentiles I, Oxford: Clarendon Press. doi:10.1093/019924653X.001.0001
Miner, Robert C., 2009, Thomas Aquinas on the Passions: A Study of Summa theologiae 1a2ae 22–48, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511576560
Pasnau, Robert, 1997, Theories of Cognition in the Later Middle Ages, Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press.
Westberg, Daniel, 1994, Right Practical Reason: Aristotle, Action, and Prudence in Aquinas, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Wood, Adam, 2020, Thomas Aquinas on the Immateriality of the Human Intellect, Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press.Ashworth, E. Jennifer, 2014, “Aquinas on Analogy”, in Jeffrey Hause (ed.), Debates in Medieval Philosophy, New York: Routledge, 232–42.
Brower, Jeffrey E., 2014, Aquinas’s Ontology of the Material World: Change, Hylomorphism, and Material Objects, New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198714293.001.0001
Brower, Jeffrey E., and Susan Brower-Toland, 2008, “Aquinas on Mental Representation: Concepts and Intentionality”, Philosophical Review, 117(2): 193–243. doi:10.1215/00318108-2007-036
Cory, Therese Scarpelli, 2022, “The Nature of Cognition and Knowledge”, in Stump and White (eds) 2022: 153–83 (ch. 7). doi:10.1017/9781009043595.011
Davies, Brian and Eleonore Stump (eds.), 2012, The Oxford Handbook of Aquinas, Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195326093.001.0001
De Haan, Daniel, 2019, “Aquinas on Sensing, Perceiving, Thinking, Understanding, and Cognizing Individuals”, in E. Băltuță (ed.), Medieval Perceptual Puzzles: Theories of Sense Perception in the 13th and 14th Centuries, Leiden: Brill, 238–68.
Kretzmann, Norman, 1997, The Metaphysics of Theism: Aquinas’s Natural Theology in Summa Contra Gentiles I, Oxford: Clarendon Press. doi:10.1093/019924653X.001.0001
Miner, Robert C., 2009, Thomas Aquinas on the Passions: A Study of Summa theologiae 1a2ae 22–48, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511576560
Pasnau, Robert, 1997, Theories of Cognition in the Later Middle Ages, Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press.
Westberg, Daniel, 1994, Right Practical Reason: Aristotle, Action, and Prudence in Aquinas, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Wood, Adam, 2020, Thomas Aquinas on the Immateriality of the Human Intellect, Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press.
Term 2023/24_Z:
Ashworth, E. Jennifer, 2014, “Aquinas on Analogy”, in Jeffrey Hause (ed.), Debates in Medieval Philosophy, New York: Routledge, 232–42. Brower, Jeffrey E., 2014, Aquinas’s Ontology of the Material World: Change, Hylomorphism, and Material Objects, New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198714293.001.0001 Brower, Jeffrey E., and Susan Brower-Toland, 2008, “Aquinas on Mental Representation: Concepts and Intentionality”, Philosophical Review, 117(2): 193–243. doi:10.1215/00318108-2007-036 Cory, Therese Scarpelli, 2022, “The Nature of Cognition and Knowledge”, in Stump and White (eds) 2022: 153–83 (ch. 7). doi:10.1017/9781009043595.011 Davies, Brian and Eleonore Stump (eds.), 2012, The Oxford Handbook of Aquinas, Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195326093.001.0001 De Haan, Daniel, 2019, “Aquinas on Sensing, Perceiving, Thinking, Understanding, and Cognizing Individuals”, in E. Băltuță (ed.), Medieval Perceptual Puzzles: Theories of Sense Perception in the 13th and 14th Centuries, Leiden: Brill, 238–68. Kretzmann, Norman, 1997, The Metaphysics of Theism: Aquinas’s Natural Theology in Summa Contra Gentiles I, Oxford: Clarendon Press. doi:10.1093/019924653X.001.0001 Miner, Robert C., 2009, Thomas Aquinas on the Passions: A Study of Summa theologiae 1a2ae 22–48, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511576560 Pasnau, Robert, 1997, Theories of Cognition in the Later Middle Ages, Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press. Westberg, Daniel, 1994, Right Practical Reason: Aristotle, Action, and Prudence in Aquinas, Oxford: Clarendon Press. Wood, Adam, 2020, Thomas Aquinas on the Immateriality of the Human Intellect, Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press. |
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