John Buridan's Tractatus de Infinito. Quaestiones Super Libros Physicorum Secundum Ultimam Lecturam, Liber III, Quaestiones 14-19
Author: J. M. M. H. Thijssen
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 142
ISBN-13: 9782503564005
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: J. M. M. H. Thijssen
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 142
ISBN-13: 9782503564005
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: John Buridan
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2016-08-01
Total Pages: 578
ISBN-13: 9004322353
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume presents the first critical edition of books III and IV of the final redaction of John Buridan's Questions Commentary on Aristotle's Physics. The edition is accompanied by a detailed guide to the contents of Buridan's questions.
Author: Andrew Janiak
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2020-01-23
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0199914117
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Recurrent questions about space have dogged philosophers since ancient times. Can an ordinary person draw from his or her perceptions to say what space is? Or is it rather a technical concept that is only within the grasp of experts? Can geometry characterize the world in which we live? What is God's relation to space? In Ancient Greece, Euclid set out to define space by devising a codified set of axioms and associated theorems that were then passed down for centuries, thought by many philosophers to be the only sensible way of trying to fathom space. Centuries later, when Newton transformed the 'natural philosophy' of the seventeenth century into the physics of the eighteenth century, he placed the mathematical analysis of space, time, and motion at the center of his work. When Kant began to explore modern notions of 'idealism' and 'realism,' space played a central role. But the study of space was transformed forever when, in 1915, Einstein published his general theory of relativity, explaining that the world is not Euclidean after all. This volume chronicles the development of philosophical conceptions of space from early antiquity through the medieval period to the early modern era. The chapters describe the interactions at different moments in history between philosophy and various other disciplines, especially geometry, optics, and natural science more generally. Fascinating central figures from the history of mathematics, science and philosophy are discussed, including Euclid, Plato, Aristotle, Proclus, Ibn al-Haytham, Nicole Oresme, Kepler, Descartes, Newton, Leibniz, Berkeley, and Kant. As with other books in the series, shorter essays, or Reflections, enrich the volume by characterizing perspectives on space found in various disciplines including ecology, mathematics, sculpture, neuroscience, cultural geography, art history, and the history of science.
Author: Jean Buridan
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 148
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2022-05-16
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9004452893
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is a collection of papers on the metaphysics and natural philosophy of John Buridan (ca. 1295-1361), one of the most innovative and influential thinkers of the later Middle Ages. It brings together original contributions by fifteen Buridan scholars on a number of central topics in the Buridanian corpus, including the theory of universals, the role of definitions in scientific practice, necessity and probability, time, the natural order, the theory of motion, time and infinity, certitude, sensation, dreams, and volition. The papers provide a unified picture of Buridan's non-logical writings, most of which are still unedited, emphasizing throughout his particular methods of presenting and solving philosophical problems. The result suggests that Buridan's reputation for brilliance in logic and semantics deserves to be extended to other areas of philosophy, and that his work deserves closer study. Contributors include: Paul J.J.M. Bakker, Joël Biard, Dirk-Jan Dekker, Peter King, Gyula Klima, Simo Knuuttila, Gerhard Krieger, John E. Murdoch, Fabienne Pironet, Olaf Pluta, Rolf Schönberger, Peter G. Sobol, Edith Dudley Sylla, Johannes M.M.H. Thijssen, and Jack Zupko.
Author: Edith Sylla
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2009-09-29
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9047441133
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Containing sixteen essays and a substantial introduction by noted historians of premodern science, this book provides a fresh look at divergent yet complementary traditions of interpreting the natural world, ranging from Greek mechanics to early modern Chinese theories of dragons.
Author: Gyula Klima
Publisher: OUP USA
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 0195176227
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is a brief, accessible introduction to the thought of the philosopher John Buridan. Klima argues that many of Buridan's academic concerns are strikingly similar to those of modern philosophy and his work sometimes quite directly addresses modern philosophical questions.
Author: Anne Davenport
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-10-11
Total Pages: 458
ISBN-13: 9004452877
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume examines a selection of late medieval works devoted to the intensive infinite in order to draw a comprehensive picture of the context, character and importance of scholastic efforts to reason philosophically about divine infinity. As Dominican masters face Franciscan 'spirituals' and as university-trained theologians face evangelical laymen, the purpose and meaning of divine infinity shift, reflecting a basic tension between the Church's Petrine vocation for geopolitical orthodoxy and its more Pauline mission to promote Christian orthopraxis. The first part of the book traces the scholastic defense of divine infinity from the holocaust of Montségur up to John Duns Scotus. The second part examines the semiotic breakthrough initiated by William of Ockham and the subsequent penetration of infinist theory into a wide variety of disciplines.
Author: Noretta Koertge
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 538
ISBN-13:
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