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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.

References

• Barbara Ensign Kretzmann, Norman Kretzmann (eds), The Sophismata of Richard Kilvington, critical edition of the Latin text, New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
• Barbara Ensign Kretzmann, Norman Kretzmann (eds), The Sophismata of Richard Kilvington, introduction, translation, and commentary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Notes

1. Jan A. Aertsen, Andreas Speer (editors), Raum und Raumvorstellungen im Mittelalter (1998), p. 179. (in German)
2. John David North, Stars, Minds, and Fate: Essays in Ancient and Medieval Cosmology (1989), p. 242.
3. Jorge J. E. Gracia, Timothy B. Noone, A Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages (2003), p. 571.

External links

• Jung, Elzbieta. "Richard Kilvington". In Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

• 1361 deaths
• Scholastic philosophers
• 14th-century writers in Latin
• Fellows of Oriel College, Oxford