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804Renaissance philosophyOxford University Press. 1992.The Renaissance has long been recognized as a brilliant moment in the development of Western civilization. Little attention has been devoted, however, to the distinct contribution of philosophy to Renaissance culture. This volume introduces the reader to the philosophy written, read, taught, and debated during the period traditionally credited with the "revival of learning." Beginning with original sources still largely inaccessible to most readers, and drawing on a wide range of secondary studi…Read more
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Giovanni Pico della Mirandola on virtue, happiness, and magicIn Stephen Gersh (ed.), Plotinus' Legacy: The Transformation of Platonism From the Renaissance to the Modern Era, Cambridge University Press. 2019.
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51Magic and the Dignity of Man: Pico della Mirandola and His Oration in Modern MemoryHarvard University Press. 2019.Pico della Mirandola, one of the most remarkable thinkers of the Renaissance, has become known as a founder of humanism and a supporter of secular rationality. Brian Copenhaver upends this understanding of Pico, unearthing the magic and mysticism in the most famous work attributed to him, The Oration on the Dignity of Man.
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98A normative historiography of philosophy: room for internalism and externalismBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 28 (1): 177-199. 2020.Change in the human past, studied by historians, includes changes in philosophy's past, which can be explained by causes, motives and reasons. In the case of philosophy, must explanatory antecedents of change always be philosophical? Should philosophers ever treat non-philosophical reasons as belonging to the history of philosophy? Saying ‘never’ is absolutely internalist, while ‘sometimes’ rejects this absolutely internalist rule. To show that ‘sometimes’ is the better answer, I examine two cas…Read more
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9Giovanni Gentile. The Philosophy of PraxisIn Rebecca Copenhaver & Brian P. A. Copenhaver (eds.), From Kant to Croce: Modern Philosophy in Italy, 1800-1950, University of Toronto Press. pp. 642-664. 2012.
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10Benedetto Croce. History of Europe in the Nineteenth Century: EpilogueIn Rebecca Copenhaver & Brian P. A. Copenhaver (eds.), From Kant to Croce: Modern Philosophy in Italy, 1800-1950, University of Toronto Press. pp. 753-761. 2012.
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20Name IndexIn Rebecca Copenhaver & Brian P. A. Copenhaver (eds.), From Kant to Croce: Modern Philosophy in Italy, 1800-1950, University of Toronto Press. pp. 805-824. 2012.
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8General IndexIn Rebecca Copenhaver & Brian P. A. Copenhaver (eds.), From Kant to Croce: Modern Philosophy in Italy, 1800-1950, University of Toronto Press. pp. 825-859. 2012.
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9References and AbbreviationsIn Rebecca Copenhaver & Brian P. A. Copenhaver (eds.), From Kant to Croce: Modern Philosophy in Italy, 1800-1950, University of Toronto Press. pp. 779-804. 2012.
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13Benedetto Croce. What Is Living and What Is Dead in the Philosophy of HegelIn Rebecca Copenhaver & Brian P. A. Copenhaver (eds.), From Kant to Croce: Modern Philosophy in Italy, 1800-1950, University of Toronto Press. pp. 533-641. 2012.
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37Marianna Bacinetti Florenzi Waddington. Remarks on Pantheism: The Infinite, the Finite, God, and ManIn Rebecca Copenhaver & Brian P. A. Copenhaver (eds.), From Kant to Croce: Modern Philosophy in Italy, 1800-1950, University of Toronto Press. pp. 422-428. 2012.
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8Bertrando Spaventa. The Character and Development of Italian Philosophy from the Sixteenth Century Until Our TimeIn Rebecca Copenhaver & Brian P. A. Copenhaver (eds.), From Kant to Croce: Modern Philosophy in Italy, 1800-1950, University of Toronto Press. pp. 343-370. 2012.
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38Count Terenzio Mamiani della Rovere. The Renewal of the Ancestral Italian PhilosophyIn Rebecca Copenhaver & Brian P. A. Copenhaver (eds.), From Kant to Croce: Modern Philosophy in Italy, 1800-1950, University of Toronto Press. pp. 312-342. 2012.
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29Francesco Fiorentino. Positivism and IdealismIn Rebecca Copenhaver & Brian P. A. Copenhaver (eds.), From Kant to Croce: Modern Philosophy in Italy, 1800-1950, University of Toronto Press. pp. 447-462. 2012.
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1The Religion of LibertyIn Rebecca Copenhaver & Brian P. A. Copenhaver (eds.), From Kant to Croce: Modern Philosophy in Italy, 1800-1950, University of Toronto Press. pp. 153-158. 2012.
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33A Strange HistoryIn Rebecca Copenhaver & Brian P. A. Copenhaver (eds.), From Kant to Croce: Modern Philosophy in Italy, 1800-1950, University of Toronto Press. pp. 3-6. 2012.
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8Notes to Part IIn Rebecca Copenhaver & Brian P. A. Copenhaver (eds.), From Kant to Croce: Modern Philosophy in Italy, 1800-1950, University of Toronto Press. pp. 173-190. 2012.
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Facts and LawsIn Rebecca Copenhaver & Brian P. A. Copenhaver (eds.), From Kant to Croce: Modern Philosophy in Italy, 1800-1950, University of Toronto Press. pp. 53-59. 2012.
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19Common Sense and Good SenseIn Rebecca Copenhaver & Brian P. A. Copenhaver (eds.), From Kant to Croce: Modern Philosophy in Italy, 1800-1950, University of Toronto Press. pp. 147-152. 2012.
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12No Speculative MovementIn Rebecca Copenhaver & Brian P. A. Copenhaver (eds.), From Kant to Croce: Modern Philosophy in Italy, 1800-1950, University of Toronto Press. pp. 86-89. 2012.
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11Still a Strange HistoryIn Rebecca Copenhaver & Brian P. A. Copenhaver (eds.), From Kant to Croce: Modern Philosophy in Italy, 1800-1950, University of Toronto Press. pp. 163-172. 2012.
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36Idealism and SensismIn Rebecca Copenhaver & Brian P. A. Copenhaver (eds.), From Kant to Croce: Modern Philosophy in Italy, 1800-1950, University of Toronto Press. pp. 7-10. 2012.
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9A Natural MethodIn Rebecca Copenhaver & Brian P. A. Copenhaver (eds.), From Kant to Croce: Modern Philosophy in Italy, 1800-1950, University of Toronto Press. pp. 45-47. 2012.
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1The occultist tradition and its criticsIn Daniel Garber & Michael Ayers (eds.), The Cambridge history of seventeenth-century philosophy, Cambridge University Press. pp. 1--454. 1998.
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170Jewish theologies of space in the scientific revolution: Henry More, Joseph Raphson, Isaac Newton and their predecessorsAnnals of Science 37 (5): 489-548. 1980.(1980). Jewish theologies of space in the scientific revolution: Henry More, Joseph Raphson, Isaac Newton and their predecessors. Annals of Science: Vol. 37, No. 5, pp. 489-548.
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19On DiscoveryHarvard University Press. 2002.On Discovery became a key reference for anyone who wanted to know about "firsts" in theology, philosophy, science, technology, literature, language, law, material culture, and other fields. Polydore took his information from dozens of Greek, Roman, biblical, and Patristic authorities. His main point was to show that many Greek and Roman claims for discovery were false and that ancient Jews or other Asian peoples had priority.
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59Science and philosophy in early modern Europe: The historiographical significance of the work of Charles B. SchmittAnnals of Science 44 (5): 507-517. 1987.In his many contributions to the history of science and the history of philosophy, the late Charles Schmitt demonstrated the interdependence of these two spheres of thought in early modern Europe. Schmitt was particularly insistent on a large and positive role for Aristotelian philosophy in the development of early modern science.
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1Lorenzo valla, scourge of scholasticism: Nature, power and modality in the dialectical disputationsRinascimento 51 3-26. 2011.
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