Investigating Medieval Philosophy – serie
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Problem of Negligent Omissions
Medieval Action Theories to the Rescue
Inbunden, 2010
2596 kr
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Negligent omissions, cases in which an agent unintentionally forgets to fulfill an obligation, are philosophically problematic. They are problematic because they are considered blameworthy despite the fact that the conditions for voluntariness often appear unfulfilled. In an attempt to explain how …
Methods and Methodologies
Aristotelian Logic East and West, 500-1500
Inbunden, 2010
2570 kr
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Methods and Methodologies explores two questions about studying the Aristotelian tradition of logic. The first, addressed by the chapters on methods in the first half of the book, is directly about the medieval logical commentaries, treatises and handbooks. How did medieval authors in the different …
Robert Kilwardby on the Human Soul
Plurality of Forms and Censorship in the Thirteenth Century
Inbunden, 2012
3365 kr
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Robert Kilwardby on the Human Soul is the first in-depth study on Kilwardby’s contribution to the thirteenth-century philosophical and theological debate on the nature of the soul and its relation with the body. The book examines his innovative approach to the plurality of substantial forms in the …
Logic and Language in the Middle Ages
A Volume in Honour of Sten Ebbesen
Inbunden, 2012
3847 kr
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During a career spanning four decades, Sten Ebbesen has produced a body of work which stands as a remarkable and important contribution to the field of medieval philosophy. Combining philological expertise and textual work with a deep philosophical understanding and a broad historical outlook, his …
Perception and the Internal Senses
Peter of John Olivi on the Cognitive Functions of the Sensitive Soul
Inbunden, 2013
3052 kr
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In Perception and the Internal Senses Juhana Toivanen advances a detailed philosophical reconstruction of Peter of John Olivi’s (ca. 1248-98) conception of the cognitive psychology of the sensitive (i.e. animal) soul. Like most medieval philosophers, Olivi thought that higher animals and human …
Walter Chatton on Future Contingents
Between Formalism and Ontology
Inbunden, 2017
2778 kr
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In Walter Chatton on Future Contingents, Jon Bornholdt presents the first full-length translation, commentary, and analysis of the various attempts by Chatton (14th century C.E.) to solve the ancient problem of the status and significance of statements about the future. At issue is the danger of …
Animal Rationality
Later Medieval Theories 1250-1350
Av Anselm Oelze
Inbunden, 2018
2518 kr
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In Animal Rationality: Later Medieval Theories 1250-1350, Anselm Oelze offers the first comprehensive and systematic exploration of theories of animal rationality in the later Middle Ages. Traditionally, it was held that medieval thinkers ascribed rationality to humans while denying it to nonhuman …
Robert Kilwardby’s Science of Logic
A Thirteenth-Century Intensional Logic
Av Paul Thom
Inbunden, 2019
2296 kr
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Paul Thom’s book presents Kilwardby’s science of logic as a body of demonstrative knowledge about inferences and their validity, about the semantics of non-modal and modal propositions, and about the logic of genus and species. This science is thoroughly intensional. It grounds the logic of …
Medieval Perceptual Puzzles
Theories of Sense Perception in the 13th and 14th Centuries
Inbunden, 2019
2566 kr
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In our daily lives, we are surrounded by all sorts of things – such as trees, cars, persons, or madeleines – and perception allows us access to them. But what does ‘to perceive’ actually mean? What is it that we perceive? How do we perceive? Do we perceive the same way animals do? Does reason play …
Calculating Ethics in the Fourteenth Century
Inbunden, 2024
2236 kr
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Calculating Ethics in the Fourteenth Century addresses a moment in the history of ethics, when discoveries in natural philosophy blurred the boundary between the possible and the impossible, and made the impossible a preferred territory in discussions on practical reason. The volume studies the …
Mind and Obligation in the Long Middle Ages
Studies in the History of Philosophy in Honour of Mikko Yrjönsuuri
Inbunden, 2024
2076 kr
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Do you have to learn a language to speak with yourself? Can you know something but be uncertain about whether you know that thing? Are you responsible for your own happiness (or lack thereof)? And what about the more basic acts of your soul, such as perception or digestion? These are some of the …
Medieval Metaphysics of Artefacts, 1250–1500
Inbunden, 2025
2615 kr
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Are artefacts, that is, human-made objects, distinct from the natural things that they are made out of? For example, is a chair a thing distinct from the pieces of wood used in making it? This question is intensely debated in contemporary metaphysics, but it is little known that there was an …
Pre-modern Mathematical Thought
The Latin Discussion (13th-16th Centuries)
Inbunden, 2025
2499 kr
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This book takes readers through an exploration of fundamental discussions that redefined mathematics and its philosophical significance in the centuries foregoing modernity. From William of Auvergne’s paradoxes of infinity to Christoph Clavius’ interpretation of Euclidean principles, it examines …
Twelfth-Century Logic and Metaphysics
Alberic of Paris and His Contemporaries
Inbunden, 2026
2003 kr
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Alberic of Paris was one of the leading philosophers of the 12th century. He was the main rival to Peter Abelard and, according to John of Salisbury, “a most fierce opponent of the nominalist school.” But although he was an important figure in his time, Alberic is almost completely unknown …
Time, Tense, and Modality
Proceedings of the XXIII European Symposium on Medieval Logic and Semantics
Inbunden, 2025
2221 kr
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This volume gathers twelve papers exploring how medieval thinkers conceptualized time, examined the linguistic expression of temporality, and addressed the impact of time’s passage on the scope of possibility and necessity. Drawing on the XXIII European Symposium on Medieval Logic and Semantics, …
