John of Reading
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John of Reading (Johannes de Reading, Johannes Radingia) (died 1346) was an English Franciscan theologian and scholastic philosopher. He was an early opponent of William of Ockham, and a follower of Duns Scotus.
He wrote a commentary on the Sentences around 1320, at the University of Oxford. He argued for the unity of science[1].
In 1322 he moved to a teaching position at Avignon[2].
[edit] Reference
- Katherine H. Tachau, Optics, Epistemology and the Foundations of Semantics, 1250-1345 (1988) pp. 165-179
[edit] Notes
- ^ Steven John Livesey, Theology and Science in the Fourteenth Century: Three Questions on the Unity of Science from John of Reading's Commentary on the Sentences (1989), p. 76.
- ^ Jorge J. E. Gracia, Timothy B. Noone, A Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages (2003), p.390.
