Richard Kilvington

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Richard Kilvington (around 1305, † 1361 ) was an English scholastic and philosopher at Oxford University . His works that still exist are lecture notes from the 1320s and 1330s. He was a fellow of Oriel College , Oxford .

He was embroiled in a controversy over the nature of infinity with his opponent Richard FitzRalph of Balliol College .

In the 1340s he worked for Richard Aungerville , the Bishop of Durham .

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  1. Jan A. Aertsen & Andreas Speer (eds.) - Space and conceptions of space in the Middle Ages (Miscellanea Mediaevalia, Volume 25), Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-110-15716-0 , (page 179ff)
  2. John David North - Stars, Minds, and Fate: Essays in Ancient and Medieval Cosmology , 1989, (p. 242)
  3. Jorge JE Gracia & Timothy B. Noone - A Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages , 2003, (page 571)

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