Medieval Philosophy

Preface; Early Medieval Philosophy; 1 Arts of Darkness: Introduction to Medieval Philosophy; 2 Charles in Charge: Alcuin and the Carolingian Period; 3 Grace Notes: Eriugena and the Predestination Controversy; 4 Much Ado About Nothing: Eriugena's Periphyseon; 5 Philosophers Anonymous: The Roots of Scholasticism; 6 Virgin Territory: Peter Damian on Changing the Past; 7 A Canterbury Tale: Anselm's Life and Works; 8 Somebody's Perfect: Anselm's Ontological Argument; 9 All or Nothing: The Problem of Universals; 10 Get Thee to a Nunnery: Heloise and Abelard; 11 It's the Thought that Counts: Abelard's Ethics; 12 Learn Everything: The Victorines; 13 Like Father, Like Son: Debates over the Trinity; 14 On the Shoulders of Giants: Philosophy at Chartres; 15 The Good Book: Philosophy of Nature; 16 One of a Kind: Gilbert of Poitiers on Individuation; 17 Two Swords: Early Medieval Political Philosophy; 18 Law and Order: Peter Lombard and Gratian; 19 Leading Light: Hildegard of Bingen; 20 Rediscovery Channel: Translations into Latin; 21 Straw Men: The Rise of the Universities; The Thirteenth Century; 22 No Uncertain Terms: Thirteenth Century Logic; 23 Full of Potential: Thirteenth Century Physics; 24 Stayin' Alive: Thirteenth Century Psychology; 25 It's All Good: The Transcendentals; 26 Do the Right Thing: Thirteenth Century Ethics; 27 A Light That Never Goes Out: Robert Grosseteste; 28 Origin of Species: Roger Bacon; 29 Stairway to Heaven: Bonaventure; 30 Your Attention Please: Peter Olivi; 31 None for Me, Thanks: Franciscan Poverty; 32 Begin the Beguine: Hadewijch and Mechtild; 33 Binding Arbitration: Robert Kilwardby; 34 Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Albert the Great's Natural Philosophy; 35 The Shadow Knows: Albert the Great's Metaphysics; 36 The Ox Heard Round the World: Thomas Aquinas; 37 Everybody Needs Some Body: Aquinas on Soul and Knowledge; 38 What Comes Naturally: Ethics in Albert and Aquinas; 39 What Pleases the Prince: The Rule of Law; 40 Onward Christian Soldiers:

Peter Adamson took his doctorate from the University of Notre Dame and first worked at King's College London. In 2012 he moved to the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen, where he is Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy. He has published widely in ancient and medieval philosophy, especially on Neoplatonism and on philosophy in the Islamic world.