The Metaphysics and Natural Philosophy of John Buridan
Biographical note
J.M.M.H. Thijssen is Director of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Natural Philosophy at Nijmegen University. He has published extensively in the history of philosophy and science. Among his current projects is a critical edition of Book 3 of Buridan's commentary on the Physics, which will be published by Brill.
Jack Zupko, Ph.D. (1989) in Philosophy, Cornell University, is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Emory University. He has published numerous articles on later medieval philosophy and John Buridan.
Jack Zupko, Ph.D. (1989) in Philosophy, Cornell University, is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Emory University. He has published numerous articles on later medieval philosophy and John Buridan.
Readership
All those interested in the history of philosophy, the history of science, and intellectual history, especially late-medieval philosophy, as well as ancient philosophy and medieval and Renaissance Aristotelianism.
Table of contents
Preface
John Buridan, Metaphysician and Natural Philosopher. An Introductory Survey, Johannes M. M. H. Thijssen & Jack Zupko
John Buridan’s Solution to the Problem of Universals, Peter King
Buridan’s Theory of Definitions in his Scientific Practice, Gyula Klima
Buridan’s Theory of Identity, Olaf Pluta
Necessities in Buridan’s Natural Philosophy, Simo Knuuttila
The Natural Order in John Buridan, Joël Biard
Naturaliter principiis assentimus: Naturalism as the Foundation of Human Knowledge?, Gerhard Krieger
John Buridan on Infinity, John E. Murdoch & Johannes M. M. H. Thijssen
Buridan’s Concept of Time. Time, Motion and the Soul in John Buridan’s Questions on Aristotle’s Physics, Dirk-Jan Dekker
On Certitude, Jack Zupko
Sensations, Intentions, Memories, and Dreams, Peter G. Sobol
The Notion of “non velle” in Buridan’s Ethics, Fabienne Pironet
Ideo quasi mendicare oportet intellectum humanum: The Role of Theology in John Buridan’s Natural Philosophy, Edith Dudley Sylla
Aristotelian Metaphysics and Eucharistic Theology: John Buridan and Marsilius of Inghen on the Ontological Status of Accidental Being, Paul J. J. M. Bakker
Philosophical Theology in John Buridan, Rolf Schönberger
Bibliography
Index of Names
Index of Manuscripts
John Buridan, Metaphysician and Natural Philosopher. An Introductory Survey, Johannes M. M. H. Thijssen & Jack Zupko
John Buridan’s Solution to the Problem of Universals, Peter King
Buridan’s Theory of Definitions in his Scientific Practice, Gyula Klima
Buridan’s Theory of Identity, Olaf Pluta
Necessities in Buridan’s Natural Philosophy, Simo Knuuttila
The Natural Order in John Buridan, Joël Biard
Naturaliter principiis assentimus: Naturalism as the Foundation of Human Knowledge?, Gerhard Krieger
John Buridan on Infinity, John E. Murdoch & Johannes M. M. H. Thijssen
Buridan’s Concept of Time. Time, Motion and the Soul in John Buridan’s Questions on Aristotle’s Physics, Dirk-Jan Dekker
On Certitude, Jack Zupko
Sensations, Intentions, Memories, and Dreams, Peter G. Sobol
The Notion of “non velle” in Buridan’s Ethics, Fabienne Pironet
Ideo quasi mendicare oportet intellectum humanum: The Role of Theology in John Buridan’s Natural Philosophy, Edith Dudley Sylla
Aristotelian Metaphysics and Eucharistic Theology: John Buridan and Marsilius of Inghen on the Ontological Status of Accidental Being, Paul J. J. M. Bakker
Philosophical Theology in John Buridan, Rolf Schönberger
Bibliography
Index of Names
Index of Manuscripts
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