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Rega Wood
Research Professor, Philosophy

Office: Green Library 351B
Medieval Reading Rm 351D
Mailing: Dept. of Philosophy,
Stanford University,
Stanford, CA 94305-2155
Phone: (650) 723-2547
Fax: (650) 725-1068
Email: rega.wood@stanford.edu

Personal Portrait

Education History
B. A., Reed College, 1968
M. A., Cornell University, 1971.
Ph. D., Cornell University, 1975

Areas of Interest
Medieval Philosophy, History, History of Science & Theology.
Medieval Latin Paleography and Codicology.
Selected Bibliography
Books:
  • (ed.) Richardus Rufus, In Physicam Aristot., British Academy, 2003.
  • Ockham on the Virtues . West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Press, 1997.
  • (ed.) Ioannes Duns Scotus, Quaestiones super libros Metaphysicorum Aristotelis , with G. Etzkorn et al. St. Bonaventure University, 1997. Two volumes.
  • (ed.) Adam de Wodeham, Lectura secunda , with G. Gíl, St. Bonaventure University, 1990. Three volumes.
  • (ed.) Adam de Wodeham, Tractatus de indivisibilibus . Dordrecht: D. Reidel (Synthese Historical Library), 1988.
  • (ed.) Guillelmus de Ockham, Expositio in VIII libros Physicorum, with G. Gíl et al., Opera Philosophica V. St.Bonaventure University, 1985.
  • (ed.) Guillelmus de Ockham, Quaestiones in IV Sententiarum, with G. Gíl, Opera Theologica VII. St. Bonaventure University, 1983.
  • (ed.) Guillelmus de Ockham, Quaestiones in II Sententiarum , with G. Gíl, Opera Theologica V. St. Bonaventure University, 1981.
Recent Articles:
  • "Interpreting Aristotle on mixture: problems about elemental composition from Philoponus to Cooper," with M. Weisberg, in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 35 (2004) 681-706.
  • "Richard Rufus of Cornwall's Significance in the Western Scientific Tradition," in Albertus Magnus, Richard Rufus, and their Contemporaries: The Origins of the Medieval Reception of Aristotle. ed. with L. Honnefelder, M. Dreyer, & M. Aris. Münster: Aschendorf, 2004.
  • "Early Oxford Theology," in Mediaeval Commentaries on Peter Lombard's Sentences, Brill: Leiden 2001, pp. 289-343.
  • "Willing Wickedly: William of Ockham and Walter of Burley Compared," Vivarium 37 (1999) 72-93.
  • "The Earliest Surviving Western Medieval Metaphysics Commentary," Medieval Philosophy and Theology 7 (1998) 39-49.
  • "Roger Bacon: Richard Rufus' Successor as a Parisian Physics Professor," Vivarium 35 (1997) 222-250.
  • "Richard Rufus and the Classical Tradition," in Neoplatonisme et philosophie medievale, ed. L. Benakis, Brepols: Turnhout 1997, pp. 229-251.
  • "Causality and Demonstration: An Early Scholastic Posterior analytics commentary," with R. Andrews. The Monist 79 (1996) 325-356.
  • "Individual Forms: Richard Rufus and John Duns Scotus," in John Duns Scotus: Metaphysics and Ethics, ed. L. Honnefelder, R. Wood, & M. Dreyer. Leiden: Brill, 1996, pp. 251-272.
  • "Richard Rufus and English Scholastic Discussion of Individuation," in Aristotle in Britain during the Middle Ages, ed. J. Marenbon, Brepols: Turnhout 1996, pp. 117-143.
  • "Angelic Individuation: According to Richard Rufus, St. Bonaventure and St. Thomas Aquinas," in Individuum und Individualität in Mittelalter, Miscellanea Mediaevalia 24, De Gruyter: Berlin 1996, pp. 209-229.
  • "Göttliches Gebot und Gutheit Gottes nach Wilhelm von Ockham." Philosophisches Jahrbuch 101 (1994) 38-54.
  • "Richard Rufus of Cornwall and Aristotle's Physics," Franciscan Studies 52 (1992) 247-281.
  • "Richard Rufus on Creation: The Reception of Aristotelian Physics in the West." Medieval Philosophy and Theology 2 (1992) 1-30.

Recent Courses

Links and Online Papers
Richardus Rufus Cornubiensis

"Richard Rufus' De anima Commentary: The Earliest Known, Surviving, Western Commentary," Medieval Philosophy and Theology 10 (2001) 119-56.


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