Additional Documents
4/22 Lecture - The Problem of Evil
Handout for 4/15 Lecture - Providence
Documents for 4/8 Lecture - Divine Simplicity
Replacement Documents for 3/18 Seminar
Seminar PowerPoint Presentations and Instructor Notes
Please download the slideshow in order to see Prof. Stump's notes for each slide. To download, click the arrow in the top right corner of the slide to the left. A new page will load - click the downward pointing arrow at the top right of that new page to download. All instructor notes are in the white boxes in the notes section of PowerPoint.
Avicenna's Natural Philosophy - Prof. McGinnis Outline and Notes
Optional Readings
Burrell, David. "Aquinas and Jewish and Islamic Authors." In The Oxford Handbook of Aquinas. Editor with Brian Davies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Torrell, Jean-Pierre. "Life and Works." In The Oxford Handbook of Aquinas. Editor with Brian Davies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Stump, Eleonore. “Aquinas on the Mechanisms of Cognition: Sense and Phantasia.” In Medieval Analyses in Language and Cognition. Edited by Sten Ebbesen and Russell Friedman, 377-95. In the series Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, Historisk-Filologiske Meddelelser 77. Copenhagen: Munksgaard, 1999.
Stump, Eleonore. “Thomas Aquinas.” (with Norman Kretzmann) Encyclopedia of Philosophy. London: Routledge Press, 1998.
Stump, Eleonore. “Simplicity and Aquinas’s Quantum Metaphysics.” In Die Metaphysik des Aristoteles im Mittelalter: Rezeption und Transformation. Edited by Gerhard Krieger, 191-210. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2016.
McGinnis, Jon. Avicenna. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.