Mechanics and Cosmology in the Medieval and Early Modern Period - 2007
Massimo Bucciantini, Michele Camerota, Sophie Roux
ISBN 978-88-222-5661-4
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Transmitting Knowledge
Words, Images, and Instruments in Early Modern Europe - 2006
Sachiko Kusukawa and Ian Mclean
The period between the fifteenth and the middle of the seventeenth centuries saw a great many changes and innovations in scientific thinking. These were communicated to various publics in diverse ways; not only through discursive prose and formal notations, but also in the form of instruments and images accompanying texts. The collected essays in this volume examine the modes of transmission of this knowledge in a variety of contexts.
ISBN 0-190928878-X
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Mechanics and Natural Philosophy before the Scientific Revolution
Laird Walter Roy and Sophie Roux
Modern mechanics was forged in the seventeenth century from materials inherited from Antiquity and transformed in the period from the Middle Ages through to the sixteenth century. These materials were transmitted through a number of textual traditions and within several disciplines and practices, including ancient and medieval natural philosophy, statics, the theory and design of machines, and mathematics.
This volume deals with a variety of moments in the history of mechanics when conflicts arose within one textual tradition, between different traditions, or between textual traditions and the wider world of practice. Its purpose is to show how the accommodations sometimes made in the course of these conflicts ultimately contributed to the emergence of modern mechanics.
The first part of the volume is concerned with ancient mechanics and its transformations in the Middle Ages; the second part with the reappropriation of ancient mechanics and especially with the reception of the Pseudo-Aristotelian Mechanica in the Renaissance; and the third and final part, with early-modern mechanics in specific social, national, and institutional contexts.
ISBN 978-1-4020-5967
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Theories of Perception in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy (Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind)
Simo Knuuttila and Pekka Kärkkäinen
Sense perception is one of the classical themes in philosophy. It is traditionally considered a necessary preamble to many important topics, such as the mind-body relationship, consciousness, knowledge, and scepticism. Perception is also a phenomenon which itself raises philosophical questions, such as what is perceptible, what the content of perception is, whether this content is conceptual and how perception is related to epistemic attitudes. While the philosophy of mind and philosophical psychology are the main areas in which perception is dealt with in contemporary philosophy, it is also discussed in the theory of knowledge, cognitive science, philosophical aesthetics and metaphysics. In recent years, the rich tradition of various philosophical theories of perception has been increasingly studied by scholars of the history of philosophy of mind.
The aim of this collection is to shed light on the developments in the theories of sense-perception in medieval Arabic and Latin philosophy, their ancient background and traditional and new themes in early modern thought. Particular attention is paid to the philosophically significant parts of the theories. The articles concentrate on the so-called external senses and related themes. Many of the central ideas are discussed, although the collection is also meant to shed light on less studied subjects.
ISBN 978-1-4020-6124-0
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Rethinking the History of Skepticism: the Missing Medieval Background (Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters, 103)
Henrik Lagerlund
The history of skepticism usually ignores the Middle Ages. It is customary in most historical overviews to say that epistemological skepticism and external-world skepticism did not find its way into the Western philosophical tradition until Sextus Empiricus was rediscovered and retranslated into Latin in the Sixteenth century. It is the aim of this book to show that this is not true and that the history of skepticism must be rewritten. It is only once the rich discussions of both epistemological and external-world skepticism in the Middle Ages are included that the whole history of skepticism can be written, and only then can the development of modern thought be understood. This book begins this rewriting of the history of skepticism by tracing discussions of skepticism from Al-Ghazali to sixteenth century Paris.
Contributors are Taneli Kukkonen, Martin Pickave, Claude Panaccio, David Piche, Christophe Grellard, Gyula Klima, Dominik Perler, Henrik Lagerlund, and Elizabeth Karger
ISBN 978-90-04-17061-2
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Medieval and Early Moderne Medicine, Alchemy and Magic
Sachiko Kusukawa
ISBN 1383-7427
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Transformations of the Soul. Aristotelian Psychology 1250 - 1650
in: Vivarium, 23 (2008)
Dominik Perler
ISBN 978-90-04-17367-5
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The Language Mental du Moyen âge à l'âge classique
J. Biard
ISBN 978-90-429-2093-4
John Buridan and Beyond: Topics in the Language Sciences, 1300-1700
Russell L. Friedman; Sten Ebbesen
ISBN 978-87-7876-362-4
