Io vedo che ti siedi anche se non ti vedo. Contingenza, logica e ontologia in Giovanni Duns Scoto

This paper aims to discuss how, in the use of the concept of contingency by John Duns Scotus, the causal temporality of necessitas per accidens joins the notions of logical possibility and instant of nature. The analysis has to be intended inside the indeterminist tradition which is opposite to theological fatalism; it starts with Boethius’ Commentary to De Interpretatione IX and reaches the modern age with the name of “compatibilism”. In Scotus’ work, especially in chapter four of the Tractatus de Primo Principio, this kind of compatibilism concerns ontologically and metaphysically the work in tandem of intellectus and voluntas; they work together to build a theological and epistemological model in which there was not repugnantia logica but compossibility between divine omniscience and human freedom.