A catalogue of ongoing research having to do with Peter Auriol.

If you are working on some aspect of Auriol's thought, please send a description of your project to Russell L. Friedman.

For secondary literature on Auriol, see the Bibliography in progress at this site. For the most recent publications, compare the UPDATES file with the bibliography.
 

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is working on a history of the theory of the transcendentals in the Middle Ages, which includes a substantial discussion of Auriol's ideas on the univocity of the concept of being, the object of the intellect, metaphysics, and the transcendentals.
 

is working on a critical edition of Auriol's only purely philosophical work, De principiis naturae.
 

is currently working on Auriol's theory of truth as part of a larger study of skepticism in the later Middle Ages.
 

David Burr (Virginia Tech):
is in the process of writing a book "that deals with medieval exegesis of the Apocalypse" and that he describes in the following terms: "It's essentially a book that provides general comments about a series of exegetes and translates key passages from each." Burr plans to include Auriol in the book.
 

is studying the role of the imagination in Auriol's philosophical psychology, based in part on an edition of sections of Auriol's II Sentences, d. 11.
 

is continuing his work on Auriol's theory of matter,  of hylomorphism, and of the nature of the rational soul. He is revising for publication his dissertation on the beatific vision ("Seeing God: Theology and Politics in the Fourteenth Century", University of Iowa, 2006) which will feature Auriol's ideas prominently.
 

continues his research into Auriol's trinitarian thought (which will eventually appear in the book, Intellectual Traditions at the Medieval University: The Incorporation of Philosophical Psychology into Trinitarian Theology among the Franciscans and Dominicans, 1250-1350, and parts of which will soon appear in abbreviated form in the survey Medieval Trinitarian Thought from Aquinas to Ockham (Cambridge UP, 2010)), as well as into Auriol's theory of intellectual cognition (which will end up in a book on Peter Auriol on Concepts).
 

is working on a book about the philosophy and theology of Auriol, Hervaeus Natalis, and Durand of St. Pourçain.
 

is continuing work on "Peter Auriol and his contemporaries" and is preparing critical editions of questions from Auriol's Quodlibet.
 

Is readying a book on the philosophy of Bartholomee Mastri, which includes considerable discussion of Auriol's theory of cognition.
 

Continues work on Auriol, his thought and works, and their context. He has published several major articles recently on scholars who reacted to Auriol (e.g. Gerard Odo, Landulph Caracciolo).
 

is working on a DPhil at Oxford that deals most extensively with Auriol's and with Gregory of Rimini's ideas on future contingents and divine foreknowledge.
 

is now working on a critical edition of Book 2, d. 43, q.1,a.1 of Auriol's Sentences commentary, which is the "location of Auriol's most original and idiosyncratic pronouncement about what he sees as the first-century Jews' motivations for bringing about Christ's death. His pronouncements are embedded in a larger discussion on sins against the Holy Spirit."
 

is currently preparing a Ph.D. dissertation at the University of Basel (Switzerland) dealing with Auriol's use of cognitive theory in his theology. The dissertation will include discussions of Auriol on esse apparens (including Ockham's critique) and on intuitive and abstractive cognition.