Medieval Metaphysics of Artefacts, 1250-1500

Medieval Metaphysics of Artefacts, 1250-1500

Majcherek, Kamil

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Acknowledgments

Note on Previously Published Pieces

List of Abbreviations

Short Biographical Notes



Introduction

?1?The Problem of Artefacts

?2?Status Quaestionis

?3?Sources and Scope

?4?Outline



1 Nature and Art

?1?Nature as a Principle of Motion and Rest

?2?Natural Things

?3?Art as a Productive Habit

?4?Artificial Things

?5?Artificial Forms



Excursus1: Why Can Artefacts Not Be Substances?

?1?Introduction

?2?Sources

?3?Rationale

?4?Other Limitations on the Productive Capacity of Art

?5?Conclusion



2 The Nature of Artificial Change

?1?Introduction

?2?Artificial Forms: Modi vs. Res

?3?Artefact Realists on Changed Involved in the Making of Artefacts

?4?Artefact Nominalism in First Approximation

?5?Artefact Nominalists on the Nature of Change Involved in the Making of Artefacts

?6?Artefact Nominalists on the Two Other Realist Arguments

?7?Artefact Nominalists on Local Motion and Change

?8?Conclusion



Excursus2: The Peculiar Status of Artificial Forms and Artefacts

?1?Introduction

?2?Thirteenth-Century Commentators on the Status of Artificial Forms

?3?Paul of Venice on the Status of Artificial Forms

?4?Paul of Venice on Artefacts as Wholes



3 The Problem of Multipart Artefacts

?1?Introduction

?2?Ockham's Argument

?3?Realist Reply 1: Walter Burley

?4?Realist Reply 2: Paul of Venice

?5?Realist Reply 3: Theodoric of Magdeburg

?6?Conclusion



Excursus3: Artefacts, Principle of Motion, and Reduplication

?1?Introduction

?2?The Realist Position

?3?The Nominalist Position



4 Productivity of Art

?1?Introduction

?2?Realist Argument(s) Based on the Productivity of Art

?3?Nominalist Account of the Productivity of Art

?4?Realist Critique of the Nominalist Solution

?5?Conclusion



Excursus4: Artificial Production and Natural Generation

?1?Introduction

?2?The View of the "Ancient Materialists"

?3?Ancient Materialism and Artefact Nominalism

?4?Conclusion



5 Problems of Separability

?1?Introduction

?2?The Principle of Separability: The Realist View

?3?A Nominalist Critique of the Realist Version of the Principle of Separability

?4?The Principle of Separability: The Nominalist View

?5?Conclusion



Excursus5: The Relational View of Artefacts and Its Discontents

?1?Introduction

?2?Henry of Ghent: The Reductive Relational View

?3?John Duns Scotus: The (Anti?)Reductive Relational View

?4?John of Pouilly and Bernard of Auvergne: The Rejection of the Relational View

?5?The Nominalist Rejection of the Relational View



Final Conclusion



Appendix: Critical Editions



TextI: Anonymous, Quaestiones super libros Physicorum, lib. II, qq.19-21



TextII: Bernard of Auvergne, Reprobationes Henrici de Gandavo Quodlibet VII, q.1 (selected passages)



TextIII: John of Pouilly, Quodlibet II, q.16/22



TextIV: Anonymous, Quaestiones super octo libros Physicorum, q.26



TextV: Theodoric of Magdeburg, Quaestiones super octo libros Physicorum, lib. I, q.1



TextVI: Anonymous, Quaestiones super libros Physicorum, lib. II, q.3



TextVII: Lawrence of Lindores, Quaestiones super octo libros Physicorum, lib. I, qq.1 and 4



TextVIII: Hugolinus of Orvieto and Anonymus Erfordiensis, Quaestiones super octo libros Physicorum, lib. I, q.1



TextIX: John Aurifaber, Quaestiones super octo libros Physicorum, lib. I, q.1



TextX: Blasius of Parma, Quaestiones super octo libros Physicorum, v. prima, lib. I, q.1, et v. altera, lib. I, q.1



TextXI: John Hennon, Commentarius in libros Physicorum, lib. II, q.2, dub. 3



TextXII: John le Damoiseau, Commentarius in libros Physicorum, lib. II, q.3 (selected passages)



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