Course Links

See the AAIWG Bibliography of Bibliographies.

Resources of particular interest in this course:

International Philosophical Bibliography; Marquette Access via Marqcat

SIEPM Medieval Philosophy Digital Resources site, by Jean-Luc Solère, Boston College

Brief Bibliographic Guides in Medieval Islamic Philosophy and Theology, by Prof. Th.-A. Druart, School of Philosophy, The Catholic University of America, emerita: website

Thomas and Thomistic Bibliographical Sources

Some Sites:

Phil Papers: https://philpapers.org/browse/thomas-aquinas

The most comprehensive collection of the Latin works is found on the CORPUS THOMISTICUM website of Enrique Alarcon.   This site also has bibliography, guidance on best available editions of texts, the Thomas-Lexicon by Schütz, the Index Thomisticus searchable database, and much more.  See http://www.corpusthomisticum.org/

Thomistic bibliography, 1920-1940, Vernon J. Bourke (St Louis: The Modern Schoolman, 1945); Thomistic bibliography, 1940-1978, Terry L. Miethe and Vernon J. Bourke (Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1980); Thomas Aquinas : international bibliography, 1977-1990, Richard Ingardia.(Bowling Green, Ohio : Philosophy Documentation Center, Bowling Green State University, c1993).

Prof. Therese Bonin’s “Thomas Aquinas in English: A Bibliography” Website: http://www.home.duq.edu/~bonin/thomasbibliography.html

    For students working primarily with sources and materials in English, the website of Prof. Therese Bonin is an invaluable aid. See http://www.home.duq.edu/~bonin/thomasbibliography.html.

    She also has sites for students who work with Latin texts and for those who wish they could work with Latin texts. See http://www.home.duq.edu/~bonin/thomasbibliography.html#latin

The Thomas Instituut te Utrecht (http://www.thomasinstituut.org/thomasinstituut/scripts/index.htm) publishes the European Journal for the Study of Thomas Aquinas.

Le Grant Portail Thomas d’Aquin at http://www.thomas-d-aquin.com/ is a very valuable French website worth exploring. This includes a list of important journals in which philosophical and theological writings can often be found. Link The site also includes a collection of valuable older articles: Link

For more valuable sites, see Mark Johnson’s Thomistica.net with Tommaso d’Aquino Newsletter and RSS Newsfeed with links at http://thomistica.net/links/

CAP: Classical Arabic Philosophy: an Anthology of Sources, J. McGinnis & D. Reisman, eds. (Indianapolis: Hackett, 2007) The MU library has four (4) copies of this. Click HERE

CCA = The Cambridge Companion to Aquinas, Kretzmann and Stump, eds. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993) Available online via Marqcat.

CCAP: Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy, P. Adamson & R. Taylor, eds. (Cambridge: CUP. 2005). Available online via Marqcat. 

CHMP = The Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy, R. Pasnau, ed. (New York & Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2010)

EMP = Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy 500 -1500, H. Lagerlund, ed. (Dordrecht, Heidelberg, London, New York: Springer, 2011)

OHA= Oxford Handbook of Aquinas, Davies & Stump, eds. Oxford; New York, OUP 2012.

OHIP = Oxford Handbook of Islamic Philosophy, eds. Khaled El-Rouayheb & Sabine Schmidtke (Oxford: OUP, 2017).

OHMP = Oxford Handbook of Medieval Philosophy, John Marenbon, ed. (Oxford: OUP, 2012)

PIW: Peter Adamson, Philosophy in the Islamic World: A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, vol. 3 (OUP 2016), is a light but valuable and entertaining introduction to this field.

PIWH: Philosophy in the Islamic World. Handbook of Oriental Studies = Handbuch der Orientalistik. Section One, The Near and Middle East. Vol. 115/1. Ulrich Rudolph, Rotraud Hansburger, and Peter Adamson, eds. English tr. by Rautraud Hansburger.

RCIP: Routledge Companion to Islamic Philosophy, R. Taylor & L. López-Farjeat, eds. (Routledge, 2015).

SEP: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (online http://plato.stanford.edu)

IEP Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Re. Aquinas, see https://iep.utm.edu/thomas-aquinas-political-theology/.

Some other works of value for our studies are the following all of which are available at the MU library.

Herbert A. Davidson, Proofs for Eternity, Creation and The Existence of God in Medieval Islamic and Jewish Philosophy. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Leo J. Elders, Thomas Aquinas and His Predecessors. The Philosophers and the Church Fathers in His Works. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2018. 

Dimitri Gutas, Avicenna and the Aristotelian Tradition. Leiden: Brill, 1988; 2014, second edition.

Pasquale Porro, Thomas Aquinas: a historical and philosophical profile. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2016.

J.-P. Torrell, Saint Thomas Aquinas, v. 1, The Person and His Work. Washington, D.C.: CUA Press, 1996.

James A. Weisheipl, Thomas D’Aquino. Washington, D.C.: CUA Press 1974.

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S. Thomas Aquinas, Liber de Veritate Catholicae Fidei contra errores Infidelium, seu Summa Contra Gentiles, Marietti Editori Ltd., 1961.

English translation: On the Truth of the Catholic Faith. Summa contra gentiles, Book 1: God, by Anton Pegis, Garden City, NY: Image Books, 1955; Book 2: Creation, by James F. Anderson, 1955; Book 3, Providence, parts 1 and 2, by Vernon J. Bourke, 1956 ; Book 4, Salvation, by Charles J. O’Neil 1957.

René-Antoine Gauthier, o.p., Introduction à la Somme contre les gentils de saint Thomas d’Aquin, Paris : Vrin, 1996

Brian Davies, Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Contra Gentiles. A Guide and Commentary, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016

Norman Kretzmann, Metaphysics of Theism (SCG I), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997

Norman Kretzmann, The Metaphysics of Creation (SCG II), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999

E. M. Macerowski, Aquinas’ Earliest Treatment of Divine Essence – Bk 1 Distinction 8, Binghamton, N.Y., 1998

Peter Adamson, “From the Necessary Existent to God.” In Interpreting Avicenna: Critical Essays, edited by Peter Adamson, 170– 89. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.

R. C. Taylor, “Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’: Arabic / Islamic Philosophy in Thomas Aquinas’s Conception of the Beatific Vision in his Commentary on the Sentences IV, 49, 2, 1″ The Thomist 76 (2012) 509-550.

R. C. Taylor, “Aquinas and the Arabs: Aquinas’s First Critical Encounter with the Doctrines of Avicenna and Averroes on the Intellect, In 2 Sent. d. 17, q. 2, a. 1,” in Philosophical Psychology in Arabic Thought and the Latin Aristotelianism of the 13th Century, Luis X. López-Farjeat and Jörg Tellkamp, eds. Paris: Vrin (2013), 142-183 & 277-296.

R. C. Taylor, “Maimonides and Aquinas on Divine Attributes: The Importance of Avicenna” in J. Stern, J. T. Robinson and Y. Shemesh (eds.) The Guide of the Perplexed in Translation: A History of the Translations of Maimonides’ Guide and Their Impact, from the Thirteenth Century to the Twentieth (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019) pp. 333-363.