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Welcome to my web page. I am a professor of Philosophy retired from the University of Wisconsin at Parkside, and here you will find my thoughts, and various writing projects in progress, including a number of translations of medieval logical texts. If you want to use or copy something, as long as you give me due credit, feel free to do so. I hope you find something interesting.

longeway@uwp.edu

CURRICULUM VITAE

Published Things — Books and Articles

“The Place of Demonstratio Potissima in Some sixteenth-Century Accounts of Mathematics.” Raison et demonstration: Les commentaires mediévaux sur les Seconds Analytiques. Studia Artistarum. Études sur la Faculté des arts dans les Universités médiévales. 40. Edited by Joel Biard. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2015.

“Anthony Coronel and Knowledge Arising from Natural Causation.” Documenti e Studi sulla Tradizione Filosofical Medievale. 17 (2009) 395-418.

Demonstration and Scientific Knowledge in William of Ockham: A Translation of Summa Logicae III-II: De Syllogismo Demonstrativo, and selections from the Prologue to the Ordinatio. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007. This includes a long introductory study of medieval work on demonstration from Grosseteste and some of his predecessors through Albertus Magnus, Thomas Aquinas, and Duns Scotus, as well as additional translations from Giles of Rome and John of Cornwall. Reviews: “His careful translation, compilation of relevant documents, and impressive history of medieval empiricism should interest any scholar studying the history of philosophy of science.” *Alexander Hall, Journal of the History of Philosophy 46 (2008). *Anne Davenport, Isis 99:4 (2008). “In sum, this is an outstanding introduction to and translation of Ockham’s treatises on or related to the demonstrative syllogism. The commentary is illuminating, especially in those cases where Longeway makes abundantly clear why Ockham thought that the causal powers of things and causal relations can be known only by experience, and why he maintained that qualities can have causal powers. These views support Longeway’s conclusion about Ockham as the founder of empiricism in the European tradition.” Andre Goddu, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2014.

“Aegidius Romanus and Albertus Magnus vs. Thomas Aquinas on the Highest Sort of Demonstration (demonstratio potissima).” Documenti e Studi sulla Tradizione Filosofica Medievale. 13 (2002) 373-434.

“Nicholas of Cusa and Man’s Knowledge of God.” Philosophy Research Archives 13 (1987-88) 289-313.

“The Rationality of Escapism and Self-Deception.” Behavior and Philosophy 18 no. 2 (Fall/Winter 1990) 1-20.

William Heytesbury: On Maxima and Minima. Chapter 5 of Regulae solvendi sophsmata with an anonymous fourteenth-century discussion. Translated with an introduction and study. Synthese Historical Series. Dordrecht, Holland: Reidel Press, 1984. Reviews: Eleanore Stump, History and Philosophy of Logic 8 (1987) 85-87, “Longeway’s excellent presentation… gives us an important part of the puzzle as we continue to piece together the history of philosophy in this period.” Peter King, Philosophical Review 96 (1987) 146-149, “A solid contribution in a neglected field.” A. Pattin, Tijdschrift Voor Philosophie 49 (3): 539. Edith Sylla, Isis 77 (1986) 710-711.

With Ebbesen (Supervising Editor), Del Punta, Izbicki, Serene and Stump. Simon of Faversham: Quaestiones super librum Elenchorum. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 1984.

Papers Read

“The Place of Demonstratio Potissima in Some sixteenth-Century Accounts of Mathematics,” presented at the Colloque sur Les traditions médiévales des Seconds Analytiques (Centre d’ études supérieures de la Renaissance, Université François-Rabelais, Tours, France), 15-17 October 2012. Arranged by Joel Biard.

“Antony Coronel and Knowledge Arising from Natural Causation,” presented at Workshop on Ancient and Medieval Commentaries on the Posterior Analytics. Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy , 6-9 July 2008. Arranged by Francesco Del Punta.

“Ekthesis in Aristotelian Demonstration,” presented at Marquette University conference on the Posterior Analytics, July, 2006.

“Mathematical Proof and Aristotelian Demonstration,” presented to “the Greeks,” a reading group in Greek Philosophy at University of Wisconsin at Madison led by Professor Paula Gottlieb, Spring 2002.

“Simon of Faversham and esse in effectu.” Presented at the 35th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 5, 2000.+

“William of Ockham on the Possibility of a Demonstrative Science of Demonstration.” Presented at the 34th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University , Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 6, 1999.

“William of Ockham on the Possibility of a Demonstrative Science of Demonstration.” Read at the Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, April 27, 1990.

Articles in Reference Works

“Simon of Faversham.” “Commentaries on Posterior Analytics.” “William of Heytesbury.” In Springer Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy, edited by Henrik Lagerlund (Springer, 2011).

“Mertonians.” In The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Philosophy, edited by A.C. Grayling, Andrew Pyle and Naomi Goulder (Continuum, 2006).

“Boëthius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (ca. 480 – 524 C.E.).” In Medieval Science, Technology and Medicine: An Encyclopedia. Edited by Thomas F. Glick, Steven Livesey and Faith Wallis (London: Routledge, 2006).

“Heytesbury, William,” In Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd ed. (Detroit: MacMillan Reference USA, 2006), edited Donald Borchert. Vol. 4:350–351.

“Simon of Faversham,” “William Heytesbury,” “William of Sherwood.” In Blackwell Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages, edited by Jorge J.E. Gracia and Timothy B. Noone, (Blackwell, 2003).

“Heytesbury, William,” “Peter of Spain,” “William of Sherwood,” and “John of Damascus.” In The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Routledge and Keagan Paul, 1998), edited by Edward Craig.

“Gregory I,” “Adelard of Bath,” “Jacob Boehme,” “Albert of Saxony,” “Robert Fludd,” “John of Damascus,” “John Scotus Erigena,” Marsilius of Inghen,” “Nemesius of Emesa,” “Nicholas of Cusa,” “nihil ex nihilo fit,” “sensus communis,” “Terminist Logic,” “William of Alnwick,” and “William of Auvergne.” In The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, 1995) edited by Robert Audi.

“Peter of Spain” and “William of Sherwood.” Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 115: Medieval Philosophers, 315–325, 360–363. Edited by Jeremiah Hackett. Detroit and London: Bruccoli, Clark and Layman, 1992.

“Medieval Philosophy.” In The Reader’s Adviser, 13th ed., vol. 4 (Bowker: New York and London, 1988), 70-101. An annotated bibliography of sources in English. A revised version of the bibliography appeared in the 14th edition.

Articles for the Stanford Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: “William of Heytesbury,” “Simon of Faversham,” “Medieval Theories of Demonstration.”

Reviews and Notes

Review of Alexander Broadie, Notion and Object (Clarendon Press: Oxford, 1989). International Studies in Philosophy 26 (1994) 102-103 .

Review of Alexander Broadie, Introduction to Medieval Logic (Clarendon Press: Oxford, 1987). International Studies in Philosophy 22 no. 3 (1990) 90-91.

Review of Niels J. Green-Pedersen, The Tradition of the Topics in the Middle Ages. The Commentaries on Aristotle’s and Boethius’s ‘Topics’ (Munich and Vienna: Philosophia Verlag GmbH, 1984). History and Philosophy of Logic 8 (1987) 77-81.

Review of Norman Kretzmann, ed., Infinity and Continuity in Ancient and Medieval Thought (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1982). The Philosophical Review 94 (1985) 263-265.

Review of Freddoso and Schuurman, Ockham’s Theory of Propositions: Part II of the Summa Logicae (NotreDame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1980), and Gabriel Nuchelmans, Late Scholastic and Humanist Theories of the Proposition, (Amsterdam: North Holland, 1980). The Philosophical Review 92 (1983) 302-304.

Review of Alluntis and Wolter, John Duns Scotus: God and Creatures. The Quodlibetal Questions, (Princeton, N.J. and L ondon: Princeton University Press, 1975), The Philosophical Review 92 (1983) 431-433.

Review of Martin M. Tweedale, Abailard on Universals (Amsterdam: North Holland Publishing Company, 1976). The Philosophical Review 90 (1981) 603-605.

With Kretzmann, Van Dyke and Stump. “Notes and Discussions: L.M. De Rijk on Peter of Spain.” Journal of the History of Philosophy 16 (July 1978) 325-333.

With Kretzmann, Van Dyke and Stump. Review of Peter of Spain (Petrus Hispanus Portugalensis): Tractatus called afterwards Summule Logicales, First Critical Edition from the Manuscripts with an introduction, by L.M. De Rijk, (Assen: Van Gorcum, 1972). The Philosophical Review 84 (1975) 560-567.

Unpublished Things:

Mediaeval Philosophy

Faversham — Excerpts from Commentary on Peter of Spain’s Tractatus

Faversham — Questions on Porphyry

Faversham — Questions on De Interpretatione

Faversham — Questions on the Categories

Faversham — Questions on the Third Book of On the Soul

Faversham — Interventiones Scolaires

Faversham — Sophisma – A Universal is an Intention

Faversham — Notes from Patton

Translations of mediaeval works concerning the Posterior Analytics and demonstration.

Richard Rufus, Opinions on the Posterior Analytics

Pseudo Thomas, Concerning Demonstration

Gundisalinus, Concerning the Sciences: Chapter 2: The Logical Sciences

Al Farabi, from On the Origin of the Sciences, citations from Albertus Magnus

Al Gazzali, Treatise on Logic: Proemium and Fifth Maneria

Al Kindi, Introduction to the Art of Demonstration

Averroes, Nine Questions on Demonstration, with some letters of Averroes and other Arabs

Richard of Conington, Quodlibet I: Question 1: Whether the middle term demonstrating in the highest way is the definition of the attribute or of the subject?

Walter Burleigh, Literal Commentary on the Posterior Analytics

Book I: Chapters 1-3 Chapters 4-6 Chapters 7-10 Chapters 11-13 Chapters 14-16 Chapters 17-20

Book II: Chapter 1 Chapters 2-5

Walter Burleigh, Questions on the Posterior Analytics

Question 1 Whether a logician can make a demonstration from first principles?

Question 2 Whether there is any demonstrative syllogism?

Question 3 Whether anyone can acquire any knowledge about anything new?

Question 4 Whether anyone can arrive at knowledge by natural means without divine illumination?

Question 5 Whether every demonstration is a syllogism productive of scientific knowing?

Question 6 It is asked whether it is required for knowledge strictly so-called to be a cognition of every cause?

Question 11 Whether the definition of the subject or the definition of the passion is the middle term in demonstration?

John of Cornwall, Questions on the Posterior Analytics