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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.
About the author
Spencer Johnston is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. He has published a number of papers in journals including History and Philosophy of Logic, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, and Logic and Logical Philosophy.Henrik Lagerlund is Professor of Philosophy at Stockholm University. His books include Modal Syllogistics in the Middle Ages (2000), Rethinking the History of Skepticism (2010), Routledge Companion to the Sixteenth Century (2017), Skepticism in Philosophy: A Historical Introduction (2020), and Reconsidering Causal Powers: Historical and Conceptual Perspectives (2021).
