The Instant of Change in Medieval Philosophy and Beyond
The Instant of Change in Medieval Philosophy and Beyond

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-05-07

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 9004368736

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Since antiquity, philosophers have investigated how change works. If a thing moves from one state to another, when exactly does it start to be in its new state, and when does it cease to be in its former one? In the late Middle Ages, the "problem of the instant of change” was subject to considerable debate and gave rise to sophisticated theories; it became popular and controversial again in the second half of the twentieth century. The studies collected here constitute the first attempt at tackling the different aspects of an issue that, until now, have been the object of seminal but isolated forays. They do so in through a historical perspective, offering both the medieval and the contemporary viewpoints. Contributors are Damiano Costa, Graziana Ciola, William O. Duba, Simo Knuuttila, Greg Littmann, Can Laurens Löwe, Graham Priest, Magali Roques, Niko Strobach, Edith Dudley Sylla, Cecilia Trifogli and Gustavo Fernández Walker.

Il tempo e il continuo
Il tempo e il continuo

Author: Cord Friebe

Publisher: Philosophy Kitchen. Rivista di filosofia contemporanea

Published: 2020-09-15

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13:

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Nonostante lo sviluppo di una definizione matematica e rigorosa del continuo attraverso i lavori di Cantor e lo sviluppo teoria degli insiemi a fine ‘800, la continuità del tempo rimane un problema per la filosofia contemporanea. Questo vale soprattutto per quelle teorie che accentuano la natura dinamica del tempo e del cambiamento, come la teoria A del tempo e in particolare il presentismo. Come è possibile pensare il tempo come continuo e perciò come esteso, se esso è, in quanto dinamico, in eterno divenire? Come possiamo concepire la continuità del tempo in contrapposizione alla continuità dello spazio? Attraverso un analisi di diverse concezioni del continuo nella storia della filosofia così, il presente volume intende esplorare diverse risposte a tali domande.

Graham Priest on Dialetheism and Paraconsistency
Graham Priest on Dialetheism and Paraconsistency

Author: Can Başkent

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-01-01

Total Pages: 698

ISBN-13: 3030253651

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This book presents the state of the art in the fields of formal logic pioneered by Graham Priest. It includes advanced technical work on the model and proof theories of paraconsistent logic, in contributions from top scholars in the field. Graham Priest’s research has had a considerable influence on the field of philosophical logic, especially with respect to the themes of dialetheism—the thesis that there exist true but inconsistent sentences—and paraconsistency—an account of deduction in which contradictory premises do not entail the truth of arbitrary sentences. Priest’s work has regularly challenged researchers to reappraise many assumptions about rationality, ontology, and truth. This book collects original research by some of the most esteemed scholars working in philosophical logic, whose contributions explore and appraise Priest’s work on logical approaches to problems in philosophy, linguistics, computation, and mathematics. They provide fresh analyses, critiques, and applications of Priest’s work and attest to its continued relevance and topicality. The book also includes Priest’s responses to the contributors, providing a further layer to the development of these themes .

Quantifying Aristotle
Quantifying Aristotle

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2022-06-08

Total Pages: 491

ISBN-13: 9004512055

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This book offers an entirely new perspective on the alleged incompatibility between Aristotelian philosophy and the mathematical methods and principles that form the basis of modern science. It surveys the tradition of the Oxford Calculators from its beginnings in the fourteenth century until Leibniz and the philosophy of the seventeenth century and explores how their various techniques of quantification expanded the conceptual and methodological limits of Aristotelianism.

La mesure de l’être
La mesure de l’être

Author: Sylvain Roudaut

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-12-28

Total Pages: 443

ISBN-13: 9004501894

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The aim of this book is to analyze the problem of the intensity of forms in the late Middle Ages and to show how this debate eventually gave rise to a new metaphysical project in the 14th century: the project of quantifying the different types of perfections existing in the universe – that is the project of “measuring being”. Cet ouvrage se propose d’analyser l’histoire du débat relatif à l’intensité des formes au Moyen Âge, et de retracer la manière dont il conduisit au XIVe siècle à l’émergence d’un projet métaphysique nouveau : celui de quantifier les perfections contenues dans l’univers et, ainsi, de “mesurer l’être”.

Atoms, Corpuscles and Minima in the Renaissance
Atoms, Corpuscles and Minima in the Renaissance

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2022-10-31

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 900452892X

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The Renaissance witnessed an upsurge in explanations of natural events in terms of invisibly small particles – atoms, corpuscles, minima, monads and particles. The reasons for this development are as varied as are the entities that were proposed. This volume covers the period from the earliest commentaries on Lucretius’ De rerum natura to the sources of Newton’s alchemical texts. Contributors examine key developments in Renaissance physiology, meteorology, metaphysics, theology, chymistry and historiography, all of which came to assign a greater explanatory weight to minute entities. These contributions show that there was no simple ‘revival of atomism’, but that the Renaissance confronts us with a diverse and conceptually messy process. Contributors are: Stephen Clucas, Christoph Lüthy, Craig Martin, Elisabeth Moreau, William R. Newman, Elena Nicoli, Sandra Plastina, Kuni Sakamoto, Jole Shackelford, and Leen Spruit.

Middle Way Philosophy
Middle Way Philosophy

Author: Robert M. Ellis

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2015-07-06

Total Pages: 710

ISBN-13: 1326343793

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"A departure at right angles to thinking in the modern Western world. An important, original work, that should get the widest possible hearing" (Iain McGilchrist, author of The Master and his Emissary) Middle Way Philosophy is not about compromise, but about the avoidance of dogma and the integration of conflicting assumptions. To rely on experience as our guide, we need to avoid the interpretation of experience through unnecessary dogmas. Drawing on a range of influences in Buddhist practice, Western philosophy and psychology, Middle Way Philosophy questions alike the assumptions of scientific naturalism, religious revelation and political absolutism, trying to separate what addresses experience in these doctrines from what is merely assumed. This Omnibus edition of Middle Way Philosophy includes all four of the volumes previously published separately: 1. The Path of Objectivity, 2. The Integration of Desire, 3. The Integration of Meaning, and 4. The Integration of Belief.

Philosophy, Rhetoric, and Thomas Hobbes
Philosophy, Rhetoric, and Thomas Hobbes

Author: Timothy Raylor

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 0198829698

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Thomas Hobbes claimed to have founded the discipline of civil philosophy. This book offers a new reading of his intellectual development, arguing that he was dubious about the place of rhetoric in civil society and came to see it as a pernicious presence within philosophy - a position from which he did not retreat.

Medieval Philosophy
Medieval Philosophy

Author: John Marenbon

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 019966322X

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In this book John Marenbon discusses the extraordinary breadth of medieval philosophy as written by Christians in Greek and Latin, Muslims in Arabic and by Jews in Hebrew, from c. 500 to c. 1550. He considers important factors such as where and when it took place, its social setting and its links with religion.