Quantifying Aristotle : the impact, spread, and decline of the Calculatores tradition / edited by Daniel A. Di Liscia, Edith Dudley Sylla, Paul J. J. M. Bakker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Di Liscia, Daniel A., editor.

Sylla, Edith Dudley, editor.

Bakker, Paul J. J. M., editor.

Series:

History of science and medicine library. Medieval and early modern philosophy and science ; Volume 34.

Medieval and early modern philosophy and science ; Volume 34

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.

Aristotle.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (491 pages)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, [2022]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Di Liscia, Daniel A. Quantifying Aristotle

ISBN:

90-04-51205-5

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004512054 DOI