Interpreting Buridan - Critical Essays

"A collection of new essays on the influential medieval philosopher John Buridan, written by leading Buridan scholars. The volume places Buridan in his philosophical context and examines his writings on topics including logic, modal logic, paradoxes, metaphysics, epistemology, theory of knowledge, moral philosophy, and natural philosophy"--

List of contents

Introduction Spencer Johnston and Henrik Lagerlund; 1. The philosopher as arts master: Buridan's career at the University of Paris Jack Zupko; 2. Principles in Buridan's logic of consequences Paul Thom; 3. Buridan on paradox Stephen Read; 4. Modality and temporality in Buridan's logic Spencer Johnston; 5. A paradigm change within medieval philosophy: semantics and mereology in Aquinas vs. Buridan Gyula Klima; 6. Buridan's internalism Henrik Lagerlund; 7. John Buridan on the ontological status of artifacts: interpreting his commentaries on Aristotle's physics Paul J.J.M. Bakker; 8. John Buridan on final causality Cecilia Trifogli; 9. Female physiology in John Buridan's quaestiones de secretis mulierum. interpreting Buridan's biology Chiara Beneduce; 10. Buridan on the value of emotions Bonnie Kent; 11. Buridan on happiness and the good life Joseph Stenberg; Bibliography of Buridan's known works Jack Zupko; References; Index.

Summary

A collection of new essays on the influential medieval philosopher John Buridan, written by leading Buridan scholars. The volume places Buridan in his philosophical context and examines his writings on topics including logic, modal logic, paradoxes, metaphysics, epistemology, theory of knowledge, moral philosophy, and natural philosophy.

Product details

• Authors: Spencer (University of Cambridge) Lagerl Johnston
• Assisted by: Spencer Johnston (Editor), Henrik Lagerlund (Editor), Lagerlund Henrik (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.02.2024
• EAN: 9781108834247
• ISBN: 978-1-108-83424-7
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Medieval, Philosophy of Mind, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Western Europe, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Philosophy: logic, Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600, Medieval Western philosophy