Di Liscia, Daniel A.
(ed.)
Sylla, Edith D.
(ed.)
Editorial: Brill
Colección: Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy and Science ; 34
Número de páginas: 491 págs.
Fecha de edición: 02-06-2022
EAN: 9789004499829
ISBN: 978-90-04-49982-9
Precio (sin IVA): 159,00 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 165,36 €
Aristotelian philosophy is generally regarded as incompatible with the mathematical methods and principles that form the basis of modern science. This book offers an entirely new perspective on this presumed incompatibility. It surveys the tradition of the Oxford Calculators from its beginnings in the fourteenth century until Leibniz and the philosophy of the seventeenth century and explores how the Calculators' techniques of quantification expanded the conceptual and methodological limits of Aristotelianism. In the process, it examines a large number of authors, some of them never studied in this context.