Thomas Wilton

Thomas Wilton [Thomas of Wilton, Thomas de Wilton, Thomas Wylton, Thomas de Wylton.] (died 1322) was an English theologian and scholastic philosopher, a teacher at the University of Oxford and then the University of Paris, where he taught Walter Burley [ [http://www.bookrags.com/research/burley-walter-c-1274c-1345-eoph/sect2.html Burley, Walter (C. 1274–C. 1345) | Encyclopedia of Philosophy ] ] . He was a Fellow of Merton College from about 1288 [Jorge J. E. Gracia, Timothy B. Noone, "A Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages" (2003), p. 666.] .

He attacked some of Burley's theses [John Marenbon, "Medieval Philosophy" (1998), p. 369.] . He wrote on and rejected the theory of motion of Averroes [Cecelia Trifogli, "Oxford Physics in the Thirteenth Century (ca. 1250-1270)" (2000), p. 65.] , provoking a reply by John of Jandun [Cecelia Trifogli, "Averroes's Doctrine of Time", p. 67, in Pasquale Porro (editor), "The Medieval Concept of Time" (2001).] . In discussing the eternity of the world, he connects the views of Maimonides and Aquinas [J. M. M. H. Thijssen, "The Response to Thomas" p. 91 in Jozef Wissink (editor), "The Eternity of the World in the Thought of Thomas Aquinas and His Contemporaries" (1990)] .

Reference

*Lauge O. Nielsen, "The Debate between Peter Auriol and Thomas Wylton on Theology and Virtue", Vivarium, Volume 38, Number 1, 2000, 35-98
*Cecelia Trifogli, "Thomas Wylton on Final Causality", in Alexander Fidora (editor), "Erfahrung und Beweis: Die Wissenschaften Von Der Natur Im 13. und 14. Jahrhundert" (2007)

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