Browsing Revista Española de Filosofía Medieval. N. 29/1 (2022) by Title
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An (Apparent) Exception in the Aristotelian Natural Philosophy: Antiperistasis as Action on Contrary Qualities and its Interpretation in the Medieval Philosophical and Medical Commentary Tradition
(UCOPress, 2022)This paper explores the scholastic debate about antiperistasis, a mechanism in Aristotle’s dynamics described in the first book of Meteorology as an intensification of a quality caused by the action of the contrary one. ... -
Intermediate Parts of Motion According to Ramon Llull: Some Remarks About His Medieval Background
(UCOPress, 2022)Following Aristotle, Averroes rejects atomism and the infinite division of geometric lines. Thus, his arguments deal with the continuity and contiguity of the non-atomic parts of motion. He vindicates the perceptual aspect ... -
Nicole Oresme on Motion and the Atomization of the Continuum
(UCOPress, 2022)As Aristotle classically defined it, continuity is the property of being infinitely divisible into ever-divisible parts. How has this conception been affected by the process of mathematization of motion during the 14th ... -
Nicole Oresme on the Movements of Javelin Throwers: a Peripatetic Reading of De Configurationibus II, 37
(UCOPress, 2022)In this contribution, I analyze a text by Oresme which gives a rather original explanation of the process of throwing a javelin and, more generally, of the actions of people who seem to have a kind ofnatural ability to ... -
Robert Halifax, an Oxford Calculator of Shadows
(UCOPress, 2022)In his commentary on Lombardʼs Sentences, question 1, Robert Halifax OFM presents a remarkably original and inventive optical argument. It compares two pairs of luminous and opaque bodies with two shadow cones until the ... -
The Concept of Motion in Jacques Legrand’s Philosophical Compendium
(UCOPress, 2022)The following paper investigates the concept of motion in Jacques Legrand, a hitherto little-studied author of the early fifteenth century. Legrand, an important member of the Order of Hermits of Saint Augustine, ... -
The Concept of Motion in Late Medieval Philosophy
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The Paradoxes Produced by the Different Ways of Determining the Rapidity of Motion in the Anonymous Treatise De sex inconvenientibus
(UCOPress, 2022)The anonymous treatise De sex inconvenientibus is a good example of the calculatores’ approach when dealing with motion. It is organized around four main questions relating to the determination of rapidity in four kinds ...