Willing and Understanding: Late Medieval Debates on the Will, the Intellect, and Practical Knowledge

Monika Michałowska, Ph.D. (2007), is Professor at the Medical University of Łódź. Her research focuses on late medieval ethics and theology. She has critically edited Richard Kilvington’s Quaestiones super libros Ethicorum and Quaestiones super libros Sententiarum (Brill, 2016, 2021, 2023). Riccardo Fedriga is Professor of history of ideas at the University of Bologna. He has published several articles and books on philosophy of mind and action in medieval thought, including Safeguarding Free Will (Ksiegarnia Akademicka Publishing, 2022) with Monika Michałowska.

Preface

Notes on Contributors



1 The Complexity of Late Medieval Debates on the Will

 Introduction

 Riccardo Fedriga and Monika Michałowska

2 Fear and Conditional Will in Stephen Langton’s Quaestiones and in the Summa Halensis

 Magdalena Bieniak

3 What Tips the Scales?

  Volition, Motivation, and Choice in Faḫr al-Din al-Razi

 Francesco Omar Zamboni

4 How Do Intellect and Will Interact?

 Thomas Aquinas, Godfrey of Fontaines, and the Determination-Exercise Distinction

 Michael Szlachta

5 Understanding and Acting

 Deliberation, the Practical Intellect, and Moral Science at the University of Bologna (Gentile da Cingoli, Angelo d’Arezzo, and Cambiolo da Bologna)

 Riccardo Saccenti

6 John of Pouilly’s Intellectualist Reading of the March 7, 1277 Condemnation

 Tobias Hoffmann

7 Cognitive Attention and Impressions

 The Role of the Will in Peter Auriol’s Theory of Concept Formation

 Giacomo Fornasieri

8 Dissolving the Air of Inconsistency

 William Ockham on Virtuous Volitions and Cognitive Error

 Sonja Schierbaum

9 Hybernicus contra Thomam

 Richard FitzRalph on the Will and His Critique of Aquinas on the Primacy of the Intellect over the Will

 Michael W. Dunne

10 Cracking the Code of the Will

 Richard Kilvington on the Will and Logic

 Monika Michałowska

11 Adam Wodeham’s Analysis and Defense of Free Will

 Severin V. Kitanov

12 Gregory of Rimini and the Augustinian Theory of the Will

 Examples of a Mediaeval Reading of Augustine’s De libero arbitrio

 Pascale Bermon

13 Necessity, Contingency, and Free Will in John of Jandun and John Aurifaber of Halberstadt

 The Transmission of Ideas from Paris to Erfurt in the 14th Century

 Łukasz Tomanek



Index of Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance Names

Index of Modern Names