Pseudo-Scotus

medievalScholasticism

Pseudo-Scotus is the conventional designation for an anonymous medieval scholastic author whose works were historically misattributed to John Duns Scotus. The author engaged with questions of logic, semantics, and universals within the late scholastic tradition, contributing commentaries that circulated under Scotus's authority for centuries.

Notable Achievements

Authored logical and philosophical commentaries later attributed to Duns Scotus

Engaged with questions of universals and the logic of genus and species

Contributed to the transmission and development of late medieval Scotist thought

Examined the relationship between Boethian semantic categories and scholastic containment principles

Positions & Arguments(1)

Philosophy of Language

claim

Boethius' observations on genus and species may be the historical precursor of the containment principle (Co)