Peter de Rivo

Peter de Rivo (Petrus) (died 1499) was a Flemish scholastic philosopher, teaching at the Catholic University of Leuven.

His views on future contingents were controversial, being opposed by Henry of Zomeren, also at Leuven (French: "Louvain") [George Henry Radcliffe Parkinson, Stuart Shanker, "Routledge History of Philosophy" (1999), p. 381.] . De Rivo went to Rome in 1472 to defend his views to Pope Sixtus IV; they were condemned in 1473 [John Monfasani, "Fernando of Cordova: A Biographical and Intellectual Profile" (1992), p.36.] . Under pressure from the influence of Cardinal Bessarion to whom Henry had as secretary [Paul Oskar Kristeller, "Itinerarium Italicum: The Profile of the Italian Renaissance in the Mirror" (1975), p. 226.] , de Rivo retracted partially his opinions in 1473, and more fully three years later [Steven Vanden Broecke, "The Limits of Influence: Pico, Louvain, and the Crisis of Renaissance Astrology" (2003), p. 51.] . This meant that views going back at least to Peter Auriol, that future contingents lacked a truth value, had become heretical in the view of the Catholic Church [ [http://www.science.uva.nl/~seop/entries/medieval-futcont/ "Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy", article "Medieval Theories of Future Contingents"] ] .

Reference

*Léon Baudry (editor), "The Quarrel Over Future Contingents (Louvain, 1465-1475): Unpublished Texts" (1989), translated by Rita Guerlac

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