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In the present century few philosophers in philosophy departments in British universities have made any very serious study of medieval philosophy: scholastic writers such as Aquinas have been read rather by historians and theologians. Those few who have taken a strictly philosophical interest in medieval thinkers owe a great debt to Peter Geach for his writings on Aquinas and on later medieval logicians, and most recently for his work as General Editor of the edition of Paul of Venice being prepared under the auspices of the British Academy.
The substance of the present essay is also published in Anthony Kenny, The Heritage of Wisdom: Essays on the History of Philosophy, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1987.
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Anscombe, G.E.M. and P.T. Geach: 1961, Three Philosophers, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York.
Geach, P. T.: 1955, ‘Form and Existence’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 55, 251–272.
Kenny, A. (ed.): 1969, Aquinas: A Collection of Critical Essays, Macmillan, London.
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Kenny, A. (1991). Form, Existence and Essence in Aquinas. In: Lewis, H.A. (eds) Peter Geach: Philosophical Encounters. Synthese Library, vol 213. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7885-1_5
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