Quantifying Aristotle
The Impact, Spread and Decline of the Calculatores Tradition
Gebonden Engels 2022 9789004499829Samenvatting
Aristotelian philosophy is generally regarded as incompatible with the mathematical methods and principles that form the basis of modern science. This book offers an entirely new perspective on this presumed incompatibility. 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 the Calculators' techniques of quantification expanded the conceptual and methodological limits of Aristotelianism. In the process, it examines a large number of authors, some of them never studied in this context. Exploring the relationship between various late medieval disciplines, the book sheds new light on the problem of continuity vs. discontinuity between scholasticism and modern science. Beyond its historiographical purpose, this book also hopes to be a source of inspiration for present-day philosophers of science.
Specificaties
Lezersrecensies
Inhoudsopgave
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Daniel A. Di Liscia
1 Thomas Wylton on the Ceasing of an Instant of Time
Cecilia Trifogli
2 The New Interpretation of Aristotle: Richard Kilvington, Thomas Bradwardine, and the New Rule of Motion
Elżbieta Jung
3 The Opuscula de motu Ascribed to Richard Swineshead: The Testimony of the Ongoing Development of the Oxford Calculators’ Science of Motion
Robert Podkoński
4 Calculations in Thomas Bradwardine’s De causa dei, Book I
Edit Anna Lukács
5 The Calculators on the Insolubles: Bradwardine, Kilvington, Heytesbury, Swyneshed, and Dumbleton
Stephen Read
6 The Influence of the Oxford Calculatores on the Understanding of Local Motion: The Example of the Tractatus de sex inconvenientibus
Sabine Rommevaux-Tani
7 Wyclif, the Black Sheep of the Oxford Calculators
Mark Thakkar
8 On the Reception of English Logic at Universities of Central Europe: Helmoldus de Zoltwedel (Prague, Leipzig) on the Liar-Paradox
Harald Berger
9 Blasius of Parma on the Calculation of the Variation of Qualities and Aristotelian Physics
Joël Biard
10 The Calculators Tradition in Oresme’s De visione stellarum
Aníbal Szapiro
11 Perfections and Latitudes: The Development of the Calculators’ Tradition and the Geometrisation of Metaphysics and Theology
Daniel A. Di Liscia
12 Decline of the Calculators in Paris c. 1500: Humanism and Print
Richard Oosterhoff
13 Some Aspects of the ‘Rules’ of motus difformis in Angelo da Fossambruno’s Commentary on Heytesbury’s De tribus praedicamentis
Fabio Seller
14 Leibniz and the Calculators
Edith Dudley Sylla
Manuscripts
Bibliography
Index Nominum
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