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'Virtus' and 'species' in the Philosophy of Nature of Roger Bacon (c. 1220-1293)
(UCOPress, 2021)
The paper examines Roger Bacon’s use of the concept of virtus in the Communia naturalium and De multiplication specierum. It focuses on the roles which virtus and species play as vehicles of causality in the inanimate ...
“…cupiens mathematicam tractare infra radices metaphyse...” Roger Bacon on Mathematical Abstraction
(UCOPress, 2021)
In some passages of the Opus maius and the Opus tertium, Roger Bacon holds that mathematical objects are the immediate and adequate objects of human’s intellect: in our sensible life, the intellect develops mostly around ...
Knowledge and Power: Courtly science and political utility in the work of Roger Bacon.
(UCOPress, 2021)
In his major works for the pope, as well as several other works from his maturity, Bacon focused on the utility of natural knowledge, both in terms of human know-how and what that know-how could produce. He looked to the ...
Roger Bacon’s New Metaphysics (1260-1292): The Integration of Language Study and Natural Science With Metaphysics and Morals.
(UCOPress, 2021)
The paper presents evidence that Roger Bacon was endeavouring to structure what he considered as a “new metaphysics”. Moreover, it identifies the Opus maius as Bacon’s new preliminary text in metaphysics and morals. The ...