Richard Kilvington
English scholastic philosopher
About Richard Kilvington
Lived 1305 – 1361 (aged 55–56). Richard Kilvington was an English university teacher, philosopher and theologian.
Richard Kilvington (c. 1302-1361) was an English scholastic theologian and philosopher at the University of Oxford. His surviving works are lecture notes from the 1320s and 1330s. He was a Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. He was involved in a controversy over the nature of the infinite, with Richard FitzRalph, of Balliol College.
In the 1340s he worked for Richard of Bury, bishop of Durham.
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English scholastic philosopher
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