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John Baconthorpe

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John Baconthorpe (c. 1290–c. 1348), Doctor Resolutus, theologian and philosopher, English Carmelite friar, master at the University of Paris, author of Sentences commentary and three sets of Quodlibeta, Prior Provincial of England, taught at Cambridge and probably at Oxford, eclectic thinker who opposed key aspects of the philosophical thinking of both Thomas Aquinas and John Duns Scotus.

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  1. Department of Philosophy, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland

    Simon Nolan

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  1. Department of Philosophy, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada

    Henrik Lagerlund

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Nolan, S. (2011). John Baconthorpe. In: Lagerlund, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9729-4_262

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