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John Buridan (d. ca. 1360) was one of the most talented and influential philosophers of the later Middle Ages. He spent his career as a master in the Arts Faculty at the University of Paris, producing commentaries and independent treatises on logic, metaphysics, natural philosophy, and ethics. His Questions Commentary on the eight books of Aristotle's Physics is the most important witness to Buridan's teachings in the field of natural philosophy. The commentary was widely read during the later Middle Ages and the Renaissance. This volume presents the first critical edition of books III and IV of the final redaction of Buridan's Questions Commentary on the Physics. The critical edition of the Latin text is accompanied by a detailed guide to the contents of Buridan's questions.

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En resume, le livre qui nous est propose est un outil indispensable pour la recherche sur la philosophie naturelle medievale et on ne peut que souhaiter une parution prochaine, sous la meme forme, de la suite de cette edition critique. [In summary, the book that is offered to us is an essential tool for the research on medieval natural philosophy and we can only hope for a next publication, in the same form, of the rest of this critical edition.] - Jean Celeyrette (Universite de Lille 3), Archives de Philosophie, cahier 2018/3, tome 81, Automne - Juillet-septembre 2018, p.666-668. The present volume continues the groundbreaking work of the editorial team that produced the critical edition of books 1-2 of Buridan's Quaestiones on the Physics in 2015. [...] All in all, this edition is an extremely valuable contribution to the history of medieval philosophy and medieval science. Scholars will be using this key source text for many years to come. - Jack Zupko (University of Alberta), Renaissance Quarterly, vol. LXXI (2018), NO. 1, pp. 264-265 L'ensemble constitue [...] un instrument de premiere importance, indis- pensable tant pour les amateurs de la pensee buridanienne que pour les historiens de la physique medievale. [The ensemble is an instrument of primary importance, indispensable for anyone interested in Buridan's ideas and historians of medieval physics.] - Joel Biard (Universite Francois-Rabelais, Tours, France), Vivarium 55 (2017) 361-370

The present volume continues the groundbreaking work of the editorial team that produced the critical edition of books 1-2 of Buridan's Quaestiones on the Physics in 2015. [...] All in all, this edition is an extremely valuable contribution to the history of medieval philosophy and medieval science. Scholars will be using this key source text for many years to come. - Jack Zupko (University of Alberta), Renaissance Quarterly, vol. LXXI , NO. 1, pp. 264-265

The present volume continues the groundbreaking work of the editorial team that produced the critical edition of books 1-2 of Buridan's Quaestiones on the Physics in 2015. [...] All in all, this edition is an extremely valuable contribution to the history of medieval philosophy and medieval science. Scholars will be using this key source text for many years to come. - Jack Zupko (University of Alberta), Renaissance Quarterly, vol. LXXI, NO. 1, pp. 264-265

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Michiel Streijger (Ph.D. 2008) is a researcher at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Munich. He is working on an edition of book II of Robert Cowton's commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard. Paul J.J.M. Bakker (Ph.D. 1999) is Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy at Radboud University. His research focuses on the commentary tradition on Aristotle's works on natural philosophy, from the late Middle Ages to the seventeenth century. Edith D. Sylla (Ph.D. 1971) is Professor Emerita at North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina). She works on the history of mathematics, physics, and their interrelations from the late Middle Ages to the early eighteenth century.

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