Thomas Wilton

Thomas Wilton^[1] (active from 1288 to 1322) was an English theologian and scholastic philosopher, a pupil of Duns Scotus,^[2] a teacher at the University of Oxford and then the University of Paris, where he taught Walter Burley.^[2] He was a Fellow of Merton College from about 1288.^[3]

He attacked some of Burley's theses.^[4] He wrote on and rejected the theory of motion of Averroes,^[5] provoking a reply by John of Jandun.^[6] In discussing the eternity of the world, he connects the views of Maimonides and Aquinas.^[7]

References

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