IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 1031: Mapping the Origins of the 'Middle Knowledge' Doctrine: Disentangling the Notions of Necessity, Contingency, and Divine Foreknowledge, I
Wednesday 5 July 2023, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Project 'Does God Know the Contingents? The Origin in the 16th Century of the Middle Knowledge Doctrine', Instituto de Filosofia, Universidade do Porto |
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| Organiser: | Paula Oliveira e Silva, Faculdade de Letras, Universidade do Porto |
| Moderator/Chair: | João Rebalde, Instituto de Filosofia, Universidade do Porto |
| Paper 1031-a | Aux origines de la doctrine de la scientia media chez Pedro da Fonseca: nécéssité et conséquence, du Commentaire au Liv. VI de la Métaphysique d'Aristote aux Institutionum dialecticarum (Language: Français) Index terms: Philosophy, Theology |
| Paper 1031-b | Caetano's Reading of Aquinas on the Compatibility between Divine Knowledge through Ideas and Intuitive Divine Knowledge (Language: English) Index terms: Philosophy, Theology |
| Paper 1031-c | Is There Room for Contingency in Divine Knowledge?: Alphonsus Vargas de Toledo and Alphonsus Mendonza's Answers (Language: English) Index terms: Philosophy, Theology |
| Abstract | The doctrine of middle knowledge originated in the 16th century in the context of debates between Jesuits and Dominicans about the nature of divine knowledge of contingent futures. However, the roots of the formation of this doctrine go back at least to medieval discussions on the subject. The three papers in this session focus on the concepts of necessity and contingency. They analyze them in some medieval philosophers, either from the realm of logic or of the theory of divine knowledge, aiming at identifying the theoretical backgrounds of 16th century doctrine on middle knowledge. |