Metaphysics Through Semantics: The Philosophical Recovery of the Medieval Mind

Joshua P. Hochschild studied at Yale (B.A. 1994) and the University of Notre Dame (Ph.D. 2001), and his primary research is in medieval logic, semantics, and metaphysics.  He has published articles and reviews in International Philosophical Quarterly, Journal of the History of Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy and Theology, and The Thomist among other journals.  He is the author of The Semantics of Analogy: Rereading Cajetan’s De Nominum Analogia (University of Notre Dame Press, 2010), and translator of Claude Panaccio’s Mental Language: From Plato to Ockham (Fordham University Press, 2017).  He is one of the founding members and former secretary of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics, and for 2020-2021 was President of the American Catholic Philosophical Association.   Turner C. Nevitt is a graduate of the University of St. Thomas, TX (BA) and Fordham University (MA, MPhil, PhD). He specializes in medieval philosophy, metaphysics, and philosophy of religion. His work has appeared in such journals as The Thomist, History of Philosophy Quarterly, and American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly. He is the translator, with Brian Davies, OP, of Thomas Aquinas’s Quodlibetal Questions (Oxford University Press, 2020).   Adam Wood studied philosophy and ancient languages at Wheaton College, Illinois (B.A. 2004) and wrote a dissertation on Aquinas's philosophical psychology with Gyula Klima at Fordham University (Ph.D. 2012). He is now associate professor and chair of Wheaton's philosophy department, and the dissertation developed into a book: Thomas Aquinas on the Immateriality of the Human Intellect (Catholic University of America Press, 2020). In addition to medieval metaphysics and philosophy of mind, he works on philosophical theology and philosophy of religion, with articles on the resurrection and the problem of hell in Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy, European Journal for the Philosophy of Religion, Res Philosophica and elsewhere.    Gábor Borbély (Ph.D. 1994), Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest. Before taking up his position at ELTE in 2008, he had done research at the University of Innsbruck (1991), he had been an Andrew W. Mellon Research Fellow at The Warburg Institute, London (1998), and had taught philosophy in several universities in Hungary. Later during his tenure at ELTE he taught at Tel Aviv University (2017). He was the director of the Office for Higher Education Programmes, Ministry of Education, Hungary (1997–2003), the head of Department for Higher Education Programmes and Scientific Affairs at the Ministry of Education, Hungary (2003–2005), and the director of the Institute for Philosophy at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2005–2008). His publications, besides scholarly papers, include a Hungarian translation and commentary on Aquinas’s De unitate intellectus (On the Unity of Intellect. Introduction, Translation and Commentaries. Ikon Klett-Cotta, Budapest, 1993) and an introduction to medieval philosophy (Civakodó angyalok / Quarrelling Angels. Introduction to Medieval Philosophy, Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, 2008).

Introduction: In Appreciation of Gyula Klima (Joshua P. Hochschild).- Part I. Before Aquinas.- Chapter 1. Pythagoras, the Philosopher and Grammar Teacher (Br. Lib. Add. MS 37516 recto) (István Bodnár).- Chapter 2.  Abelard on Existential Inference (Peter King).- Chapter 3. Rereading "Saint Anselm's Proof" (Daniel Patrick Moloney).- Chapter 4. Albert the Great Among the Pygmies: Explaining Animal Intelligence in the Thirteenth Century (Peter G. Sobol).- Part II. Aquinas.- Chapter 5. "The Essential Differentiae of Things are Unknown to Us":Thomas Aquinas on the Limits of the Knowability of Natural Substances (Fabrizio Amerini).- Chapter 6. Aquinas, perversor philosophiae suae (Gábor Borbély).- Chapter 7. Knowing Non-existent Natures: A Problem for Aquinas's Semantics of Essence (Turner C. Nevitt).- Chapter 8. Metaphors, Dead and Alive (Martin Klein).- Chapter 9. Truth and Person in Aquinas's De veritate (Robert J. Dobie).- Chapter 10. Transcendentals Explained Through Syncategoremata: Is Being as Truth a Transcendental According to Thomas Aquinas? (Giovanni Ventimiglia).- Chapter 11. Truth as a Transcendental (Edward Feser).- Part III. Ockham and Buridan.- Chapter 12. Four Notes on the Grammar of Ockham's Mental Language (Claude Panaccio).- Chapter 13. Thoughts About Things: Aquinas, Buridan and Late Medieval Nominalism (Calvin G. Normore).- Chapter 14. Buridan's Reinterpretation of Natural Possibility and Necessity (Guido Alt).- Chapter 15. The Semantic Account of Formal Consequence, from Alfred Tarski Back to John Buridan (Jacob Archambault).- Chapter 16. Skeptical Motivators in Buridan's Philosophy of Science (Ariane Economos).- Part IV. Other Scholastics.- Chapter 17. Parody or Touch-Up? Duns Scotus's Engagement with Anselm's Proslogion Argument (Giorgio Pini).- Chapter 18. De se vs. de facto Ontology in Late-Medieval Realism (Laurent Cesalli).- Chapter 19. Connotation vs. Extrinsic Denomination: Peter Auriol on Intentions and Intellectual Cognition (Giacomo Fornasieri).- Chapter 20. Temporal Origins Essentialism and Gappy Existence in Marsilius of Inghen's Quaestiones super libros De generatione et corruptione (Adam Wood)).- Chapter 21. John of Ripa and the Metaphysics of Christology (Richard Cross).- Afterword.- Gyula Klima as Medievalist: A Select Bibliographical Essay (Jacob Archambault).