Walter Chatton on future contingents : between formalism and ontology / By Jon Bornholdt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bornholdt, Jon, author.

Series:

Investigating medieval philosophy ; Volume 11.

Investigating Medieval Philosophy, 1879-9787 ; Volume 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Medieval.

Future contingents (Logic).

Free will and determinism.

Philosophical theology.

Walter, of Chatton, approximately 1285-1343.

Walter.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (550 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill Nijhoff, 2017.

Summary:

In Walter Chatton on Future Contingents , Jon Bornholdt presents the first full-length translation, commentary, and analysis of the various attempts by Chatton (14th century C.E.) to solve the ancient problem of the status and significance of statements about the future. At issue is the danger of so-called logical determinism: if it is true now that a human will perform a given action tomorrow, is that human truly free to perform or refrain from performing that action? Bornholdt shows that Chatton constructed an original (though problematic) formal analysis that enabled him to canvass various approaches to the problem at different stages of his career, at all times showing an unusual sensitivity to the tension between formalist and metaphysical types of solution.

Contents:

Front Matter

Introduction: History and Logical Analysis of the Problem

Translations of Chatton’s Reportatio super Sententias I, dd. 38–41 and Quodlibet, qq. 27–29

Commentary

Natural-Deduction Derivations of the Pattern Arguments

Bibliography

Indexes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-33834-9

OCLC:

984127711

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004338340 DOI