Interpreting Buridan by Johnston, Spencer; Lagerlund, Henrik;

Critical Essays

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Publisher Cambridge University Press
Date of Publication 21 August 2025

ISBN 9781108994729
Binding Paperback
No. of pages263 pages
Weight 387 g
Language English

Short description:

A collection of new essays on the influential medieval philosopher John Buridan, written by leading Buridan scholars.

Long description:

John Buridan (d. 1362) is one of the great thinkers of the later Middle Ages. He is perhaps best known for his contributions to logic, but the range of his thought is wide. This volume of new essays, written by leading Buridan scholars, places Buridan in his philosophical context and examines his writings on logic, modal logic, paradoxes, metaphysics, epistemology, and natural philosophy. It also introduces several new topics of discussion that have not so far been dealt with in scholarship on Buridan, such as his theory of knowledge, his view of artefacts, his conception of women, his writing on emotions, and his moral philosophy. Together the essays produce a rich picture of Buridan's thought and underline the continuing relevance of his philosophical concerns.

Introduction Spencer Johnston and Henrik Lagerlund; 1. The philosopher as arts master: Buridan's career at the University of Paris Jack Zupko; 2. Principles in Buridan's logic of consequences Paul Thom; 3. Buridan on paradox Stephen Read; 4. Modality and temporality in Buridan's logic Spencer Johnston; 5. A paradigm change within medieval philosophy: semantics and mereology in Aquinas vs. Buridan Gyula Klima; 6. Buridan's internalism Henrik Lagerlund; 7. John Buridan on the ontological status of artifacts: interpreting his commentaries on Aristotle's physics Paul J.J.M. Bakker; 8. John Buridan on final causality Cecilia Trifogli; 9. Female physiology in John Buridan's quaestiones de secretis mulierum. interpreting Buridan's biology Chiara Beneduce; 10. Buridan on the value of emotions Bonnie Kent; 11. Buridan on happiness and the good life Joseph Stenberg; Bibliography of Buridan's known works Jack Zupko; References; Index.

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