John Duns Scotus
(c.1266-1308)

Encyclopedia articles:  Carlo Balic (DS, NCE), Stephen Dumont (REP), Mary Elizabeth Ingham (HFT), Partenius Minges (CE), J.M. Rigg (DNB), Alan Wolter (EP, ER)   [Abbreviation key]

Donald A. Cress. "Towards a Bibliography on Duns Scotus on the Existence of God" Franciscan Studies 35 (1975) 45-65.

Servus Gieben. "Bibliographia Scotistica Recentior (1953-1965)" Laurentianum 6 (1965) 492-522.

Odulfus Schaefer. Bibliographia de Vita, Operibus et Doctrina Ioannis Duns Scoti, Doctoris Subtilis ac Mariani, Saec. XIX-XX. Rome: Herder, 1955.

Odulfus Schaefer. "Conspectus Brevis Bibliographie Scotisticae Recentoris" Acta Ordinis Fratrum Minorum 85 (1966) 531-50.

Uriel Smeets. Lineamenta Bibliographiae Scotisticae. Rome, 1942.

 

Girolamo da Montefortino. Repertorium Locupletissimum. Venice: A. Sessam, 1588.

Antonius de Fantis. Tabula Generalis. Venice: E. Deuchini & I. Salis, 1617.

Carolus Franciscus de Varosio. Promptuarium Scoticum. Venice: A. Poleti, 1690.

Marianus Fernandez Garcia. Lexicon Scholasticum Philosophico-Theologicum. Quaracchi: Collegio San Bonaventura, 1910.

 

Luke Wadding (ed.) Opera Omnia. Lyon: L. Durand, 1639. (13 v.)  [reprinted Paris: L. Vives, 1891-5 (26 v.)]

Scotus Commission (Rome). Opera Omnia. Vatican City: Typis Polyglottis Vaticanis, 1950- . [1. Ordinatio. Prologus (1950).—2-6. Ordinatio. Liber Primus (1950-63).—7. Ordinatio. Liber Secundus. Distinctiones 1-3 (1973).— 16-17. Lectura in Librum Primum Sententiarum (1960-1966).—18. Lectura in Librum Secundum Sententiarum. Distinctiones 1-6 (1982)]

Opera Philosophica. St. Bonaventure, NY: Franciscan Institute, 1997-
[1. Quaestiones in Librum Porphyrii Isagoge et Quaestiones Super Praedicamenta Aristotelis.— 3-4. Quaestiones Super Libros Metaphysicorum Aristotelis]

F. Alluntis & Allan Wolter (trs.) God and Creatures: The Quodlibetal Questions. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1975.

Girard J. Etzkorn & Allan Wolter (trs.) Questions On the Metaphysics of Aristotle by John Duns Scotus. St. Bonaventure, NY: Francsican Institute, 1997. (2 v.)

William A. Frank & Allan Wolter. Duns Scotus, Metaphysician. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 1995. [Latin text, translation & commentary of selected passages]

A. Vos. Contingency and Freedom: John Duns Scotus, Lectura I 39. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1994. [contains translations of questions on divine foreknowledge]

Alan Wolter (ed. & tr.) Duns Scotus’ Early Oxford Lecture on Individuation. Santa Barbara, CA: Old Mission, 1992.

Alan Wolter (ed. & tr.) Duns Scotus’ Political and Economic Philosophy. Santa Barbara, CA: Old Mission, 1989.

Alan Wolter (ed. & tr.) A Treatise on God as First Principle. 2^nd edition, revised, with a commentary. Chicago: Franciscan Herald Press, 1983

Alan Wolter (tr.) Duns Scotus: Four Questions on Mary. Santa Barbara, CA: Old Mission, 1988.

Alan Wolter (tr.) "Duns Scotus On the Necessity of Revealed Knowledge" Franciscan Studies 11 (1951) 231-71. [translation of the prologue to the Ordinatio]

Alan Wolter (tr.) Duns Scotus On the Will and Morality. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America, 1986. [half introduction, half translations of selected texts]

Alan Wolter & Marilyn McCord Adams (ed. & tr.) "Duns Scotus’ Parisian Proof for the Existence of God" Franciscan Studies 42 (1982) 248-321.

Alexandre Bertoni. Le Bienheureux Jean Duns Scot: Sa Vie, Sa Doctrine, Ses Disciples. Levanto: Tipografia dell’Immacolata, 1917. [Contains an extensive listing of Scotists]

Efrem Bettoni. Duns Scotus: The Basic Principles of His Philosophy. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America, 1961.

Bernardino Bonansea. Man and His Approach to God in John Duns Scotus. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1983.

Catholic Church. Congregatio Pro Causis Sanctorum. Confirmationis Cultus Servi Dei Ioannis Duns Scoti. Rome, 1988. [over 1200 pages of official documents]

Richard Cross. Duns Scotus. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Richard Cross. The Physics of Duns Scotus. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998.

Mary Beth Ingham.  The Harmony of Goodness: Mutuality and Moral Living according to John Duns Scotus.  Quincy, IL: Franciscan Press, 1996.

_________.  Scotus for Dunces: an Introduction to the Subtle Doctor.  St. Bonaventure, NY: Franciscan Institute Publications, 2003.

Mary Beth Ingham and Mechtild Dreyer. The Philosophical Vision of John Duns Scotus: an Introduction.  Washington D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2004.

Peter King.  "Duns Scotus on the Common Nature and the Individual Differentia".  Philosophical Topics 20 (1992) 50-76.

Philosophy of John Duns Scotus, in Commemoration of the 700^th Anniversary of His Birth. The Monist 49/4 (October 1965)

John K. Ryan & Bernardine Bonansea (eds.) John Duns Scotus, 1265-1965. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1965.

Thomas A. Shannon. The Ethical Theory of John Duns Scotus. Quincy, IL: Franciscan Press, 1995.

Michael Sylwanowicz. Contingent Causality and the Foundations of Duns Scotus’ Metaphysics. Leiden: Brill, 1996.

Thomas Williams ed.  The Cambridge Companion to Scotus.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Alan Wolter. The Philosophical Theology of John Duns Scotus. Ithaca: Cornell University press, 1990. [collection of articles]

Alan Wolter. The Transcendentals and Their Function in the Metaphysics of Duns Scotus. St. Bonaventure, NY: Franciscan Institute, 1946.

Alan Wolter (ed.) Duns Scotus [special issue]. American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 67 (Winter 1993)

 

Proceedings of the 2^nd congress (Oxford/Edinburgh, 1966)

De Doctrina Ioannis Duns Scoti. Acta Congressus Scotistici Internationalis Oxonii et Edinburgi 11-17 Sept. 1966 Celebrati. Rome: Commissionis Scotisticae, 1968. (4 v.)

Proceedings of the 3^rd congress (Vienna, 1970)

Deus et Homo ad Mentem I. Duns Scoti. Acta Tertii Congressus Scotistici Internationalis, Vindebonae, 28 Sept.-2 Oct. 1970. Rome: Societatis Internationalis Scotistica, 1972.

Proceedings of the 4^th congress (Padua, 1976)

Regnum Hominis et Regnum Dei: Acta Quarti Congressus Scotistici Internationalis / ed. Camille Berube. Rome: Societas Internationalis Scotistica, 1978. (2 v.)

Proceedings of the 5^th congress (Salamanca, 1981)

Homo et Mundo. Acta Quinta Congressus Scotistici Internationalis Salamanticae, 21-26 Septembris 1981 / ed. Camille Berube. Rome: Societatis Internationalis Scotistica, 1984.

Proceedings of the 6^th congress (Rome, 1993)

Via Scoti: Methodologica ad Mentem Joannis Duns Scoti. Atti del Congresso Scotistico Internazionale, Roma 9-11 Marzo 1993 / ed. Leonardo Sileo. Rome: Paa-Edizioni Antonianum, 1995. (2 v.)

 

E. P. Bos (ed.) John Duns Scotus: Renewal of Philosophy. Acts of the Third Symposium by the Dutch Society for Medieval Philosophy Medium Aevum (May 23 and 24, 1996). Amsterdam: Rodolpi, 1998.

Ludger Honnefelder, Rega Wood, Mechthild Dreyer. John Duns Scotus: Metaphysics and Ethics. Leiden: Brill, 1996. [Papers from a conference at the University of Bonn held March 14-18, 1994]

 

Compiled by Paul J. Spaeth