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Making Euclid Practical: The Impact of Practical Geometry on the Euclidean Tradition in the Sixteenth Century
The Elements of Euclid (third century BC) was regarded from Antiquity on as a reference work for the most fundamental aspects of arithmetic and geomet
A World of the Senses: Jesuit Aristotelianism in Europe and China
The Coimbra Commentaries, published between 1592 and 1606, were intended to serve as the teaching manuals for the philosophy course structured around
Definition and Division in Medieval Latin Commentaries on Aristotle’s De animalibus
Definition is one of the most disputed elements of Aristotle’s scientific methodology. In difficult passages of the Posterior Analytics, Aristotle ask
Experience and Rational Demonstration: Sufis vs. Philosophers in Medieval Islam
In this project, I focus on the way in which Aristotelian notions of reason and experience were first translated into Arabic. During the ninth and ten
Experience and Observation in Narboni's Commentaries on Maimonides' Treatises
The project explores the role of experience in Moses ben Joshua Narboni’s commentaries on two texts by Maimonides: Guide of the Perplexed and Treatise
Between Natural Philosophy and Convention: Albert the Great’s Approach to an Empirical Anthropology
Albert the Great (1200–1280) is one of the earliest and most influential thirteenth-century thinkers to study human beings from the perspective of nat
The Vegetative Soul and Plants in the Study of Living Bodies
Vegetation and vegetative powers, in their ability to preserve, maintain, and reproduce life, have shaped the understanding of living bodies and the d
Alfarabi and Averroes on What is Known Prior to Scientific Demonstration
Alfarabi’s and Averroes’s philosophical treatises are guided by a common recognition that there are four types of knowledge (maʽlūmāt) which are prior
Experience of Soul and Body in the Chinese Jesuit Sciences, 1583–1683
In Jesuit psychological writings, especially from Matteo Ricci to Francesco Sambiasi, one can observe a cognitive sequence from the reception of the f
When to Trust Authoritative Testimony: Generation and Transmission of Knowledge in Medieval Thought
Most of what we know comes not from perception, intuition, or reason, but from what others tell us orally or in writing. From whom and when we accept