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Article: Pini, Giorgio. Categories and Logic in Duns Scotus: an Interpretation of Aristotle's "Categories" in the Late Thirteenth Century.(Book Review)
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- The Review of Metaphysics
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- June 1, 2003
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Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters, Bd. 77. Leiden: Brill, 2002. viii + 230 pp. Cloth, $86.00--In this clearly written and impressive volume, Giorgio Pini has provided the first systematic book-length study of Duns Scotus's doctrine of the categories and an extremely useful sketch of his views on logic generally. Divided into six chapters, the work covers the gamut of interpretations of Aristotle's Categories over the course of the thirteenth century, ranging from the views of Robert Kilwardby and Albertus Magnus in the 1240s to the leading opinions of the 1280s and 1290s, those held by Radulphus Brito, Simon of Faversham, and Peter of Auvergne. ...