More information and download The latest issue of Lexicon Philosophicum: International Journal for the History of Texts and Ideas is out. The journal is published by the Institute for the European Intellectual Lexicon and History of Ideas (ILIESI - CNR). [...]
More information and purchase Quaestio No. 22 came out. The volume contains a special issue on the History of Ontology, edited by Francesco Fronterotta and Alice Ragni. An additional special section is devoted to John Duns Scotus and His Legacy. [...]
More information and purchase Magic is central to Aristotle's philosophy in this wide-ranging collection of essays that re-frame his natural philosophy. From late Mediaeval and Renaissance discussions on the attribution of magical works to Aristotle, to the philosophical and social [...]
More information and purchase The Lord gave it to him in his sleep... Four hundred years ago, in Neuburg, René Descartes dreamed up the method of "wonderful science" that was to become the foundation of rational science in modern times. An [...]
More information and purchase This book comes out as a joint project between the Institute for Hispanic Studies in Modernity (IEHM) and the Spanish Province of the TOR of St. Francis. Since a systematic study of the dimensions of the [...]
More information and purchase This volume is the first complete critical edition of Peter of Auvergne’s Questiones super I-VII libros Politicorum. The Questiones was produced at the Faculty of Arts of Paris sometime between late 1291 and 1296 and is the earliest surviving [...]
More information and purchase The work Cosmotheoria (Cosmotheory) is an introductory course on geography and the use of some mathematical instruments (astrolabe, celestial globe, altimetric scale among others). It reflects university lectures given by the Jesuit António de Castel-Branco in Evora [...]
This accessible general history of the Reformation in the Netherlands traces the key developments in the process of reformation – both Protestant and Catholic – across the whole of the Low Countries during the sixteenth century. Synthesizing fifty years' worth [...]
More information and purchase The Renaissance witnessed an upsurge in explanations of natural events in terms of invisibly small particles – atoms, corpuscles, minima, monads and particles. The reasons for this development are as varied as are the entities that [...]
More information and purchase The volume offers the first large-scale study of the teaching of Descartes’s philosophy in the early modern age. Its twenty chapters explore the clash between Descartes’s “new” philosophy and the established pedagogical practices and institutional concerns, [...]
More information and purchase Spanish Jesuits such as Francisco Suárez (1548-1617), José de Acosta (1540-1600), Pedro de Ribadeneira (1526-1611) and Juan de Mariana (1536-1624) had a powerful impact on English thinkers of the magnitude of John Locke (1632-1704), Francis Bacon [...]
More information and purchase This book deals with the issues, the problems and the solutions that Suárez's iusnaturalistic philosophy poses and offers to human beings and society as regards the notions of freedom, law and power. As Suárez's principle and [...]
More information and purchase Long considered one of late scholasticism’s most important thinkers, Francisco Suárez has, paradoxically enough, often been treated only in relation to other medieval authors or as a transitional figure in the shift from medieval to early [...]
More information and purchase Bruniana & Campanelliana 2022/1 features a special section, edited by Simone Guidi, on "Parts, Wholes, and Matter in Early Modern Natural Philosophy". Section Contents: Simone Guidi, Introduction; Andrew W. Arlig, Part-Whole Interdependence and the Presence of [...]
More information A very common narrative in the history of both philosophy and science reconstructs the dawn of early-modern thought as a clean break from the dusk of Scholasticism and its Aristotelian roots. The workshop Divergent Scholasticism: Philosophical Thought and [...]
More information and purchase The late-scholastic school of Scotism (after John Duns Scotus) left considerable room for disagreement. This volume innovatively demonstrates just how vividly Scotist philosophers and theologians discussed cognitive matters from the 14th until the 17th century. It [...]
