William Penbygull

William Penbygull is a late medieval philosopher from Oxford who is counted among the followers of John Wyclif , the so-called "Oxford Realists".

Penbygull was a 1399 student at Exeter College, Oxford, where he received his master's degree; From 1406 to 1407 he was rector there. On February 28, 1410, he was given authority to preach in the Dioceses of Bath and Wells. Around 1417 he became a Baccalaureus theologiae; he probably died in Oxford in 1420.

In his works he defends Wyclif's position and also develops a novel theory of identity and predication in general, thereby solving some of the problems of Wyclif's theory. Only his Tractatus de universalibus is critically edited . But are preserved in the manuscript also a commentary on Aristotle ' category Scripture , Divisio entis in praedicamenta well as a commentary on the Isagoge of Porphyry .

Works

• De universalibus (On Universals), in: AD Conti: Teoria degli universali e teoria della predicazione nel trattato De universalibus di William Penbygull: discussione e difesa della posizione di Wyclif , in: Medioevo 8 (1982), 137–203, Edition 167– 203.

literature

• AD Conti: Categories and Universals in the Later Middle Ages , in: L. Newton (ed.): Medieval Commentaries on Aristotle's Categories Leiden: Brill 2008.
• A. de Libera: La querelle des universaux . De Platon à la fin du Moyen Age, Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1996, 403-28.
• Charles Lohr: Medieval Latin Aristotle Commentaries , in: Traditio 24 (1968), 149–245.

Web links

• Alessandro Conti:  William Penbygull. In: Edward N. Zalta (Ed.): Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy .