Siger and the skeptic.(Critical essay)

The Review of Metaphysics | December 1, 2006| | Copyright

MOST ASSESSMENTS OF SIGER OF BRABANT'S CONTRIBUTION to philosophy have tended to focus on his adoption of Averroistic noetics, a position he would later renounce, and on his supposed role as the factious leader of a group of "Latin Averroists" within the Faculty of Arts, an enduring myth finally put to rest by R.-A. Gauthier. (1) He is now more accurately viewed as a staunch and indeed unrepentant proponent of philosophy as an autonomous discipline, a man who believed that the professional philosopher should go about his business exploring Aristotle's arguments wherever they ...

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