Interpreting Buridan: Critical Essays

Author:   Spencer Johnston (University of Cambridge) ,  Henrik Lagerlund (Stockholms Universitet)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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9781108834247


Pages:   264
Publication Date:   08 February 2024
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Interpreting Buridan: Critical Essays


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John Buridan (d. 1362) is one of the great thinkers of the later Middle Ages. He is perhaps best known for his contributions to logic, but the range of his thought is wide. This volume of new essays, written by leading Buridan scholars, places Buridan in his philosophical context and examines his writings on logic, modal logic, paradoxes, metaphysics, epistemology, and natural philosophy. It also introduces several new topics of discussion that have not so far been dealt with in scholarship on Buridan, such as his theory of knowledge, his view of artefacts, his conception of women, his writing on emotions, and his moral philosophy. Together the essays produce a rich picture of Buridan's thought and underline the continuing relevance of his philosophical concerns.

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Author:   Spencer Johnston (University of Cambridge) ,  Henrik Lagerlund (Stockholms Universitet)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Weight:   0.542kg
ISBN:  

9781108834247


ISBN 10:   1108834248
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   08 February 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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.

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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).

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