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Introduction to the Problem of Individuation in the Early Middle Ages, Analytica Series, Munich and Washington, DC: Philosophia Verlag and Catholic University of America Press, 1984.
2nd ed. Philosophia Verlag, 1988, 303 pp.
Trans. into Spanish by Benjamín Valdivia, rev. by Mauricio Beuchot, Introducción al problema de la individuación en la alta edad media. Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1987, 382 pp.
With Douglas Davis, The Metaphysics of Good and Evil According to Suárez: Disputations X and XI. Munich and Vienna: Philosophia Verlag, 1989, 294 pp.
Suárez on Individuation. Milwaukee: Marquette University. Press 1982, 302 pp. Reprinted 2000.
Ed., with Jiyuan Yu, Uses and Abuses of the Classics: Interpretation in Philosophy. London: Ashgate, 2004.
Ed., with Jiyuan Yu, Rationality and Happiness: From the Ancients to the Early Medievals. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2003, xii, 252 pp.
Ed., with Timothy Noone, Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003, 739 pp.
Ed., Individuation in Scholasticism: The Later Middle Ages and the Counter Reformation (1150-1650). Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1994, 633 pp.
Trans. into Korean. Seoul: CPH, 2004.
Com usar bé de beure e menjar; Normes morals contingudes en el "Terç del Crestià". Barcelona: Edicions Curial, 1977, 150 pp.
Ed., The Transcendentals in Medieval Philosophy, issue of Topoi 11(1992), 86 pp.
Ed., Francisco Suárez, issue of American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly (formerly The New Scholasticism) 65 (1991), 148 pp.
Articles
"The Agent and Possible Intellects in Gonsalvus Hispanus' Question XIII," Franciscan Studies, St. Bonaventure, NY, 20 (1969), 5-36
"Las metáforas estructurales del Blanquerna de Llull," Estudios Lulianos, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 14 (1970), 5-26
"Problems of Interpretation in Bradwardine's Tractatus de proportionibus," Divus Thomas, Piacenza, Italy, 73 (1970), 175-195
"Tres quaestiones de Guido Terrena sobre los trascendentales," Analecta Sacra Tarraconensia, Barcelona, Spain, 45 (1972), 87-130.
"División y encuadernación de los manuscritos del Terç del Crestià de Francesc Eiximenis," Estudios Franciscanos, Barcelona, Spain, 73 (1972), 305-310.
"`A Supremely Great Being,'" The New Scholasticism, Notre Dame, IN 48 (1974), 371-377.
"Propositions as Premisses of Syllogisms in Medieval Logic," Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, Notre Dame, IN 16 (1975), 545-547
"Fe y razón en Anselmo," Teoría, Santiago, Chile, 5-6 (1975), 116-119.
"La doctrina luliana de las razones necesarias en el contexto de algunas de sus doctrinas epistemológicas y sicológicas," Estudios Lulianos, Palma de Mallorca 19 (1975), 25-40.
"Rules and Regulations for Drinking Wine in Francesc Eiximenis' Terç del Crestià (1384)," Tradition, New York 32 (1976), 369-385.
"Suárez's Criticism of the Thomistic Principle of Individuation," Atti del Congresso di S. Tommaso d'Aquino nel suo VII Centenario (Rome: 1977), pp. 563-568.
"Philosophy in the Middle Ages: A Reminder," Diálogos, San Juan, Puerto Rico 9 (1977), 233-243.
"Ontological Characterization of the Relation Between Man and Created Nature in Eriugena," Journal of the History of Philosophy, St. Louis, MO, 16 (1978), 155-166.
"Francesc Eiximenis' Sources," in Catalan Studies: Estudis sobre el Català, ed. J. Gulsoy and J. Sola-Sole (Madrid: Hispam, 1978), pp. 173- 187.
"El misionero, como filósofo," Estudios Lulianos, Palma de Mallorca 22 (1978), 131-138.
"What the Individual Adds to the Common Nature According to Suárez," The New Scholasticism, St Louis, MO 53 (1979), 221-233.
"Numerical Continuity in Material Substances: The Principle of Identity in Thomistic Metaphysics," The Southwestern Journal of Philosophy 10 (1979), 72-93.
"Origen y auge de la filosofía didáctico-popular en la España medieval," Actas. Congreso Internacional de Filosofía Medieval, (Madrid, 1972), vol. II (Madrid: Nacional, 1979), pp. 803-811.
"Boethius and the Problem of Individuation in the Commentaries on Porphyry's `Isagoge'," Atti. Congresso Internazionale de Studi Boeziani. (Pavia, October 5-8, 1980). (Rome: Herder, 1981), pp. 169-182.
"Suárez y la individualidad," Cuadernos Salmantinos de Filosofía, 10 (1983), 157-182. Trans. by I. Jaksic.
"Thierry of Chartres and the Theory of Individuation," The New Scholasticism, 58 (1984), 1-23.
Trans. into Spanish by I. Jaksic as "El problema de la individualidad en la escolástica temprana," Pensamiento, Madrid 40 (1984), 203-221.
"Scholasticism," in Dictionary of the Middle Ages, vol. 11 (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1982), pp. 55-58
"La centralidad del individuo en la filosofía del siglo catorce," Analogía: Revista de Filosofía 2 (1988), 3-30
"Llull y el principio de individuación," with Woosuk Park, in Studia Lullistica: Miscellanea in honorem Sebastian Garcias Palou (Civitate Maioricarum: Maioricensis Schola Lullistica, 1989), pp. 35-46
"Evil and the Transcendentality of Goodness: Suárez's Solution to the Problem of Positive Evils," in S. MacDonald, ed., Being and Goodness: The Concept of Good in Metaphysics and Philosophical Theology (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1991), pp. 151-178
"Francisco Suárez," in Handbook of Metaphysics and Ontology, pp. 867-870
"The Centrality of the Individual in the Philosophy of the Fourteenth Century," History of Philosophy Quarterly 8, 3(1991), 235-251
"Suárez's Metaphysics: A Step in the Direction of Mentalism? American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 65, 3 (1991), 287-310
"Francisco Suárez: The Man in History," American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 65, 3 (1991), 259-266
"The Transcendentals in the Middle Ages," Topoi 11 (1992), 3-10
"Suárez and the Transcendentals," Topoi 11 (1992), 11-23
"Francisco Suárez," in A Companion to Epistemology, E. Sosa and J. Dancy, eds. (Oxford: Blackwell, 1993), pp. 494-495
"Suárez and Metaphysical Mentalism: The Last Visit," American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 67, 3 (1993), 349-354
"El escolasticismo: un puente entre la antigüüedad clásica y el pensamiento colonial latinoamericano," Apuntes Filosóficos 4 (1993), 7-52
Rep. in I. M. Ruscalleda, et al., El impacto del humanismo en el nuevo mundo (Potomac, MD: Scripta Humanistica, 1994), pp.14-46
"The Legacy of the Early Middle Ages," in Individuation in Scholasticism (see section on books in cv), pp. 21-38
"Francisco Suárez (Individuation)," in Individuation in Scholasticism (see section on books in cv), pp. 475-510
"John of St. Thomas (Individuation)," with John Kronen, in Individuation in Scholasticism (see section on books in cv), pp. 511-534
"Individuation in Scholasticism," in Individuation in Scholasticism (see section on books in cv), pp. 543-551
"Cutting the Gordian Knot of Ontology: Thomas's Solution to the Problem of Universals," Thomas Aquinas and His Legacy, ed. D. Gallagher, in Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy Series (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1994), pp. 16-36
"Suárez," in A Companion to Metaphysics, ed. Jaewon Kim and E. Sosa (Oxford: Blackwell, 1995), pp. 479-480
"Buridan," in ibid., pp. 67-68
"Port Royal," in ibid., pp. 403-404
"Quiddity," in ibid., p. 426
"Tree of Porphyry," in ibid., pp. 499-500
"Suárez," with E. Millán, in The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, ed. Ted Honderich (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), p. 856
"Molina," with E. Millán, in ibid., p. 583
"John of St. Thomas," ibid., p. 392
"Individuality and the Individuating Entity in Scotus’’s Ordinatio: An Ontological Characterization," in L. Honnefelder, Rega Wood and M. Dreyer, eds., John Duns Scotus: Metaphysics and Ethics (Leiden: Brill, 1996), pp. 229-249
"The Philosopher and the Understanding of the Law," in Mourad Wahba and Mona Abousenna, eds., Averroes and the Enlightenment (Buffalo: Prometheus, 1996), pp. 243-251
"Interpretation and the Law: Averroes's Contribution to the Hermeneutics of Sacred Texts," History of Philosophy Quarterly 14, 1 (1997), 139-153
"Suarez (and Later Scholasticism)," The Routledge History of Medieval Philosophy, ed. J. Marenbon (London: Routledge, 1998), pp. 452-474.
"Scotus's Conception of Metaphysics: The Study of the Transcendentals," Franciscan Studies (Essays in Honor of Dr. Girard Etzkorn, ed. Gordon A. Wilson and Timothy B. Noone), 56 (1998), 153-168
"Medieval Philosophy and the Transcendentals: Aertsen's Characterization of Medieval Thought and Thomas Aquinas' Metaphysics," Recherches de Theologie et Philosophie Medievales 64, 2 (1997), 455-463.
"The Ontological Status of the Transcendental Attributes of Being in Scholasticism and Modernity: Suarez and Kant," in Was ist Philosophie im Mittelalter?, ed. J. Aertsen and A. Speer. Walter de Gruyter: Miscellanea Medievalia 26 (1998), pp.
"The Language of Categories: From Aristotle to Ryle, via Suarez and Kant," in L'elaboration du vocabulaire philosophique au Moyen Age (Turnhout: Brepols, 2000), pp. 337-355.
"Metaphysical, Epistemological, and Linguistic Approaches to Universals: Porphyry, Boethius, and Abailard," in R. E. Houser, ed., Medieval Masters: Essays in Memory of Msgr. E. A. Synan (Houston: University of Saint Thomas, 2000), pp. 1-24
"La concepción de Suárez sobre la metafísica," in Jorge J. E. Gracia, ed. Concepciones de la metafísica (Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 1998), pp. 101-124
"The Role of the History of Philosophy in Latin American Philosophy," in Elizabeth Millan Zaibert and Arleen Salles, eds., The Role of the History of Philosophy in Latin American Philosophy (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, forthcoming 2005), pp.
"Medieval Philosophy," with C. F. J. Martin, in N. Bunin and E. O. Tsui-James, eds., The Blackwell Companion to Philosophy, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003), pp. 619-633
Rep. with revisions in Blackwell's Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003), pp. 1-11
"La racionalidad y la felicidad según san Anselmo," with J. Sanford, in La filosofia medieval, volume of the Encyclopedia Ibero-Americana de Filosofia, ed. by Fracisco Bertelloni and Giannina Burlando. (Madrid: Editorial Trotta, 2002), pp. 79-92.
"Suarez's Metaphysical Disputations: From the Middle Ages to Modernity," in Jorge Gracia et al, eds., The Classics of Western Philosophy (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003), pp. 204-209.
"Ratio quaerens beatitudinem: Anselm on Rationality and Happiness," with J. J. Sanford, in J. Yu and Jorge J. E. Gracia, eds., Rationality and Happiness: From the Ancients to the Early Medievals (Rochester: Rochester University Press, 2003), pp. 199-216.
"Rationality and Happiness: From the Ancients to the Early Medievals," with J. Yu, in ibid., pp. 1-13
"Thomas Aquinas' On Being and Essence: Toward a Metaphysics of Existence," in Jorge Gracia et al., The Classics of Western Philosophy (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003), pp. 137-142
"The Convertibility of unum and ens According to Guido Terrena," Franciscan Studies, St. Bonaventure, NY, 33 (1973), 143-170
With Lloyd Newton, "Categories in the Middle Ages," Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
With Paul Symington. "La individualidad y su relación con las pasiones del ser en Tomás de Aquino," in Revista Electronica de Estudos Tomistas 3 (2006), 73-86
(With Daniel Novotny) "Fundamentals in Francisco Suárez's Metaphysics," in Daniel Schwartz, eds., Cambridge Companion to Francisco Suárez (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 19-38.
"A Scholastic Perspective on the Individuation of Race," in Gregory T. Doolan, ed., The Science of Being as Being: Metaphysical Investigations (The Catholic UNiversity of America Press, 2012), 129-153.
(With Paul Symington) "Individuation and Individuality in Thomas Aquinas: Ontological Characterization," (submitted)
(With Daniel Novotny) "Transcendentales y categorias en Suarez," in volume of proceedings of congress in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in press
"Categories vs Genera: Suarez's Difficult Balancing Act," in Gyula Klima and Alexander Hall, eds., Categories and What Is Beyond, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2011, pp. 1-16
(with Daniel Novotny) "Fundamentals in Suarez's Metaphysics: Transcendentals and Categories," in Daniel Schwartz, ed., Interpreting Suarez: Critical Essays (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 19-38
(With Daniel Novotny) "Trascendentales y catehorias en la metafisica de Suarez," in Poberto Hofmeister Pich and Alfredo Santiago Culleton, eds., Right and Nature in the First and Sedcond Scholasticism. 1-10. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2014.
“Individuation in the Middle Ages: From Realism to Nominalism”, Dialogue, in preparation.