Thomas Wilton

{{Short description|English theologian and scholastic philosopher}}

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Thomas WiltonThomas of Wilton, Thomas de Wilton, Thomas Wylton, Thomas de Wylton. (active from 1288 to 1322) was an English theologian and scholastic philosopher, a pupil of Duns Scotus,Harjeet Singh Gill, Signification in language and culture, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, 2002, p. 109. a teacher at the University of Oxford and then the University of Paris, where he taught Walter Burley. 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)