__NOTOC__ John of Reading (; – 1346) was an English Franciscan theologian and scholastic philosopher. He was an early opponent of William of Ockham, and a follower of Duns Scotus.
Career John of Reading was ordained subdeacon at Northampton on September 20, 1292. He was made deacon at Dunstable in 1294.The Roles and Register of Bishop Oliver Sutton. Ed. Rosalind M. T. Hill, v. 7 (Lincoln: J. W. Ruddock & Sons 1975) p. 31, 56.
He earned his doctorate of theology at University of Oxford by 1321. Around 1320 while he was at Oxford, he wrote a commentary on the Sentences. He argued for the unity of science.Livesey, Steven John. Theology and Science in the 14th Century: Three Questions on the Unity and Subalternation of the Sciences from John of Reading's Commentary on the Sentences. Introduction and Critical Edition. E.J. Brill, 1989.
In 1322 he moved to a teaching position at Avignon, then the seat of the Avignon Papacy. Reading is buried at Avignon.
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Bibliography Katherine H. Tachau, Optics, Epistemology and the Foundations of Semantics, 1250-1345 (1988) pp. 165–179
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