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Thomas Wylton's Quaestio de anima intellectiva is one of the most significant medieval treatments of the intellectual soul. This edition of the Latin text is accompanied by an en face English translation by Gail Trimble. The detailed introduction guides the reader through the intricacies of the transmission of the text as well as its philosophical contents. Wylton's Quaestio presents a strong and controversial defence of Averroes' interpretation of Aristotelian psychology. In his comparison of Averroes' view with the Catholic doctrine of the human soul, as defined by the Council of Vienne, Wylton highlights the rationality of the Arabic philosopher's stance and raises strong arguments against the commonly accepted opinion of Catholic thinkers, such as Thomas Aquinas and his followers. Wylton's Quaestio had a strong influence on his contemporaries and in particular on the most eminent exponent of Latin Averroism, John of Jandun, who included long passages from Wylton's treatise in his commentary on Aristotle's On the Soul. Wylton also addresses fundamental philosophical issues: the ontological status of a subsisting form, the existence of universal things as components of individuals, and the possibility of intellectual knowledge of universals as well as singulars. This combination of polemics and engaging philosophical reflection is one of the distinguishing features of Wylton's text and makes his work of significance to historians, philosophers, and theologians.
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Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open intiative.In this volume we produce a critical edition of ten Questions on cognition discussed by Thomas Wylton, an important early fourteenth-century philosopher and theologian, in his theological works. The topics of the questions include divine ideas, our knowledge of the physical world, the notion of science, our cognition of truths about God, the epistemological status of faith, the controversial issue of the possibility of the simultaneous existence of many intellectual acts, the intellectual cognition of singulars. The edition of the Latin text of Wylton’s questions is prefaced by a lengthy Introduction that (i) explains the historical context of Wylton’s questions, (ii) offers a study of their manuscript tradition, and (iii) clarifies the criteria of our edition. The bulk of the Introduction consists (iv) in a detailed analysis of the contents of each of the edited questions with the aim of clarifying Wylton’s views, the arguments he formulates in support of them, his criticism of other contemporary views (for example, Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus, Hervaeus Natalis, Durandus of St. Pourcain). This analysis will hopefully make Wylton’s discussion accessible to a wide philosophical audience. Various kinds of Indexes are produced to help the readers navigate through the Latin text.