Table of Contents

Series Foreword by Brian Davies
Preface
List of Abbreviations

Introduction

I. LIVING
The Life and Works of Robert Kilwardby
The Life
The Works

II. BEING
Introduction
The Metaphysics of Plurality
Matter
Form

The Letter to Peter of Conflans
Introduction
Animal Generation
Active Potencies
The Human Soul
Is the Soul (the) One?
The Unity of Form(s)
At Oxford in 1277
Excursus: The Human Soul in the Sentences
Motion
A Questionnaire
Celestial Motion
Time

III. BEING LOGICAL
Introduction
Words, Thoughts and Things
Interpretation
The Category of Relation

IV. KNOWING
Introduction
Perception
On the Reception of Sensible Species
Attention and Activity
Cognition
Introduction
Thinking
Representing and Instantiating
Universality
Scientific Knowledge
Introduction
Knowledge
Demonstration
Pre-existing Knowledge
First Principles
Principles
Conditions for Predication
Signs of Affections
What Can Be Demonstrated?
Definitions
Disciplining the Disciplines
Subalternation

V. BEHAVING
Introduction
Ethics: The Science of Happiness
The Good
The Cause of Happiness
The Virtues
Voluntary Action

VI. BELIEVING
Introduction
Theology
Divine Trinity
Where from? Creation as a Kind of Change
Angels
Creator and Creatures
Which One? The Free Choice of the Will
By Heaven's Grace
Gratis: Sin and Evil
On Sacraments
Faith

VII. INCARNATING
Introduction
I Assume
I Know
I Suffer

Bibliography
Notes
Index

About the Author

José Filipe Silva is Professor of Medieval Philosophy at the University of Helsinki. He is the Director of the ERC research project Rationality in Perception: Transformations of Mind and Cognition 1250-1550, and the author of Robert Kilwardby on the Human Soul: Plurality of Forms and Censorship in the Thirteenth Century.

Reviews

"This book's rich reservoir of information is presented in a way that should appeal to both scholars and nonspecialists...Excellent bibliography." -- P.A. Streveler, emeritus, West Chester University of Pennsylvania, CHOICE
"Silva's book is a very substantial introduction to Robert Kilwardby. It provides a much-needed overview of the philosophical and theological thought of this medieval thinker, and makes a very compelling case for its significance to the history of medieval thought. Based on a thorough investigation of the entire vast corpus of this thinker, Silva's presentation shows the richness, sophistication, and originality of Kilwardby's thought. Silva does indeed do full
justice to the inclusion of Kilwardby among the great medieval thinkers." -- Cecilia Trifogli, Professor of Medieval Philosophy, University of Oxford
"Silva succeeds in covering the different areas of Kilwardby's work - logic, metaphysics, perception, ethics and theology - concisely yet thoroughly. For the first time, readers of this book will be able to grasp as whole the thought of this fascinating, and until recently neglected, contemporary of Aquinas." -- John Marenbon, Trinity College, University of Cambridge
"Here we have Robert Kilwardby in full: his metaphysics, psychology, logic, ethics, and theology. And because Kilwardby stands in the middle of late medieval philosophy, we get in effect a picture of that field in full, as it stands at the dawn of its greatest figures. If anyone is going to make the case for Kilwardby as a deserving member in the club of Great Medieval Thinkers, it will be José Filipe Silva." -- Robert Pasnau, University of Colorado
Boulder