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 [...]
More information and purchase A Commentary on Aristotle's 'De Anima' as part of the Coimbra Jesuit Course (1592-1606). This volume is dedicated to the translation, edition, explanation (explanatio) and questioning (quaestio) of books I and II of this Aristotelian work, [...]
More information and purchase Medieval Western eschatology was built on the basis of Holy Scripture and has undergone significant changes over the centuries. The witness of the first Christians shows that the advent of the Parousia, the object of their [...]
More information and purchase Aristotelianism, libertinism, erudition are philosophical currents evolving over the entire seventeenth century in Italy, and their results cannot be enclosed in strict definitions. Moving against the background of epochal events, such as Galilei's condemnation, and following [...]
More information and purchase This special issue of Studi Lockiani (2, 2021), edited by Luisa Simonutti (ISPF-CNR), is devoted to Locke and Occasionalism. With papers by Igor Agostini, Raffaele Carbone, Matteo Favaretti, Simone Guidi, Nicholas Jolley, Steven Nadler, Mariangela Priarolo. [...]
More information and purchase This special issue of the Italian Scopus Journal of Philosophy Rivista di storia della filosofia (4/2021) edited by Alberto Frigo (UniMi), is devoted to "Radical Natural Theologies from Duns Scotus to Christian Wolff" Table of contents [...]
More information and purchase The essays composing this volume investigate the stratifications and changes in the evolution of theories of matter in the philosophical and theological tradition. They also investigate cases and crucial moments for the definition of the different [...]
More information and OA download In the letter published here, a young Jesuit priest educated in the colleges of the Society of Jesus in Brabant gives a detailed account of life in the College of Jesus in Coimbra, where he [...]
More information and purchase The Bible is the crucible within which were forged many of the issues most vital to philosophy during the early modern age. Different conceptions of God, the world, and the human being have been constructed [...]
