Thomas Wilton
English theologian and scholastic philosopher of the late 13th and early 14th century
About Thomas Wilton
Lived 1270 – 1320 (aged 49–50). Thomas Wilton was an English philosopher and theologian.
Thomas Wilton (active from 1288 to 1322) was an English theologian and scholastic philosopher, a pupil of Duns Scotus, a teacher at the University of Oxford and then the University of Paris, where he taught Walter Burley.
He attacked some of Burley's theses. He wrote on and rejected the theory of motion of Averroes, provoking a reply by John of Jandun. In discussing the eternity of the world, he connects the views of Maimonides and Aquinas.
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English theologian and scholastic philosopher of the late 13th and early 14th century
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