Adam of Balsham is remembered for arguments the next generation could not ignore.
The record lists Adam of Balsham as Anglo-Norman scholastic philosopher.
Adam of Balsham was born at Balsham in 1105. His recorded nationality is Kingdom of England. He studied at University of Paris.
Thought in this period moved between the Islamic world, the Jewish communities and the Latin West, and the same texts were argued over in three traditions.
A philosophical position survives not by being proved but by resisting every attempt to dispose of it.
That the work was done from Kingdom of England matters: philosophical traditions, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Adam of Balsham died in 1181, aged 76. The arguments remain in print, which is the form in which philosophy survives.
