Duns Scotus's Categories Commentary

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics

Organizer Name

Alex Hall

Organizer Affiliation

Clayton State Univ.

Presider Name

Alex Hall

Paper Title 1

Scotus on the Species of Quality

Presenter 1 Name

Lloyd Newton

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Benedictine College

Paper Title 2

Matter and Substance in Scotus' Categories Commentary

Presenter 2 Name

Thomas M. Ward

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Loyola Marymount Univ.

Paper Title 3

Rules and Consequences: Scotus's QQ in Praedic. q. 9, 13, and 42

Presenter 3 Name

Timothy B. Noone

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Catholic Univ. of America

Start Date

10-5-2013 1:30 PM

Session Location

Valley I 105

Description

The influence of Aristotle’s Categories on medieval philosophy can hardly be overstated and the last decade’s scholarship concerning the scholastic reception of this work discloses markedly different interpretations of the Categories on the part of various medieval thinkers that, in turn, help us to understand the development of important philosophical topics well into the sixteenth century. Duns Scotus’ Categories commentary appears around 1295 and stands out among late thirteenth-century treatments as quite unusual owing to a variety of interpretive strategies used by Scotus to develop a scientia of the categories. This session considers Scotus' seminal work and its ramifications on subsequent medieval thought, in anticipation of Lloyd Newton's forthcoming edition of Scotus' Categories Commentary (CUA).

Alexander W. Hall