William of Champeaux

William Champeaux
Born	1070 France
Died	1122 , France unknown
Occupation	Philosopher
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William of Champeaux (Guillelmus Campellensis, Guillelmus de Campellis, Willelmus Campallensis, Guillaume de Champeaux, Guillelmus de Champeaux, Wilhelm von Champeaux).

Primary sources

• Commentary on Cicero's De Inventione ; excerpts edited and discussed in Fredborg 1976.
• Commentary on Cicero's Rhetoric ad Herennium; excerpts edited and discussed in Fredborg 1976.
• Commentary on Porphyry's Isagoge; the beginning of an early commentary edited in Iwakuma 1993
• Introductiones dialecticae secundum Wilgelmum (ISW), ed. Iwakuma 1993; de Rijk 1967, vol II part 1: 130-46. (references above are to Iwakuma 1993)
• Introductiones dialecticae secundum magistrum G. Paganellum (IGP), ed. Iwakuma 1993.

Sententiae (Sen), ed. Lottin 1958 vol V: 190-227; Lefevre 1898 (references above are to Lottin 1958)

Several of William's commentaries have been identified, although in some cases the attribution is tentative. (Numbers P*, C*, H* and B*, are those assigned in the list of commentaries in Marenbon 1993 and 2000, and Green-Pedersen 1984.)

• Porphyry's Isagoge, P3, P14, P29
• Aristotle's Categories, C8, C14
• Aristotle's De Interpretatione, H3, H9, H11
• Boethius' De Differentiis Topicis, B8

Reference in SEP

Secondary sources

• Fredborg, K. “The Commentaries on Cicero's De Inventione and Rhetoric ad Herennium by William of Champeaux,” Cahiers de l'Institut du Moyen-Âge Grec et Latin 17 (1976): 1-39.
• Iwakuma, Y. “Influence.” In The Cambridge Companion to Peter Abelard. Ed. J. Brower and K. Guilfoy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
• -----. “Are Argumentations Propositions?” In Medieval Theories on Assertive and Non-Assertive Language. Ed. A. Maierù and L. Valente. Rome: Lessico Intellettuale Europeo, 2004b.
• -----. “Pierre Abélard et Guillaume de Champeaux dans les premières années du XIIe siècle: Une étude préliminaire,” in Langage, sciences, philosophie au XIIe siècle. Ed. J. Baird. Paris: Vrin, 1999
• -----. “The Introductiones dialecticae secundum Wilgelmum and secundum magistrum G. Paganellum,” Cahiers de l'Institut du Moyen-Âge Grec et Latin 63 (1993): 45-114.

Notability

This philosopher has 1 pages in the Blackwell Companion.