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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. ...
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 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 ...
The Concept of Motion in Late Medieval Philosophy
(UCOPress, 2022)
La unidad del alma: metafísica, psicología y problemas en la primera lección jesuita parisina sobre el alma (1564)
(UCOPress, 2022)
El artículo reconstruye la concepción del alma del jesuita español Juan Maldonado, uno de los primeros jesuitas que disertó sobre el aristotélico De anima, a través del análisis de la síntesis de las lecciones que impartió ...