Richard of Campsall

Richard of Campsall (Ricardus de Campsalle) (c.1285-c.1350) was an English theologian and scholastic philosopher, at the University of Oxford. He was a Fellow of Balliol College and then of Merton College. He is now considered a possible precursor to the views usually associated with William of Ockham^[1].

He commented on Aristotle's Prior Analytics^[2], with emphasis on "conversion" and "consequences"^[3]. He is an apparent innovator in speculation about God's foreknowledge, particularly concerning future contingents, around 1317^[4].

References

• E. A. Synan, The Works of Richard of Campsall

Notes

1. ^ Jorge J. E. Gracia, Timothy B. Noone A Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages (2003), p. 561
2. ^ The History of the University of Oxford (1984), p. 427.
3. ^ Norman Kretzmann, Jan Pinborg, The Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy (1982), p. 293.
4. ^ M. J. F. M. Hoenen, Marsilius of Inghen: Divine Knowledge in Late Medieval Thought (1993), p. 251.