Jocelin of Soissons[1] (died 24 October 1152) was a French theologian, a philosophical opponent of Peter Abelard. He became bishop of Soissons, and is known also as a composer, with two pieces in the Codex Calixtinus. He was teaching at the Paris cathedral school in the early 1110s.[2]
The De generibus et speciebus has been attributed to him.[13] Now scholars call its author Pseudo-Joscelin.[14] It may be by a student of his.[2] The Metalogicus of John of Salisbury attributed to him the view that universals exist only in the collection, not the individuals.[15][16][17]
References
Annales de la vie de Joscelin de Vierzi in Achille Luchaire, Quatrièmes mélanges d'histoire du moyen age, Paris: Alcan, 1905.
Desmond Paul Henry, Medieval Mereology, Amsterdam: B. R. Grüner., 1991.
Pseudo-Joscelin, Treatise on Genera and Species, edited and translated with an introduction by Peter King, Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy, 2, 2014, pp.104–210.
Notes
↑ Gauslen, Gauslenus, Gauzelin, Goslen, Goslenus, Goslin, Jocelin, Jocelyn, Joscelin, Joscelinus, Joslain, Joslein, Joslin, Josselin; surnamed de Vierzy; sometimes cited as Goslenus Suessionensis or Magister Goslenus, episcopus Suessionensis.
1 2 Cambridge Companion to Abelard (2004), p. 310.
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