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69Giordano Bruno: An IntroductionBrill | Rodopi. 2012.Giordano Bruno was a philosopher in his own right. However, he was famous through the centuries due to his execution as a heretic. His pronouncements against teachings of the Catholic Church, his defence of the cosmology of Nicholas Copernicus, and his provocative personality, all this made him a paradigmatic figure of modernity. Bruno’s way of philosophizing is not looking for outright solutions but rather for the depth of the problems; he knows his predecessors and their strategies as well as …Read more
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4Neuzeitliche Philosophie ist "Philosophenphilosophie", das ist die These dieses Buches, denn seit der Renaissance und besonders seit der Wende der Philosophie bei Descartes bezieht die Philosophie ihre Autoritat aus dem Philosophen selbst, der sie vertritt. Das fur das moderne philosophische Argumentieren selbstverstandliche "Selbstdenken" belastet den Philosophen mit Verantwortung fur die Wahrheit, was auch moralische Konsequenzen hat. Das Gegenmodell ist die Schulphilosophie, die parallel dazu…Read more
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4Philosophieren in der RenaissanceKohlhammer. 2004."Philosophieren in der Renaissance" - das Thema dieses Bandes ist zugleich bescheiden und voraussetzungsreich. Zwar kann der Autor bei weitem keine "Geschichte der Philosophie der Renaissance" versprechen, er beansprucht aber zeigen zu konnen, was in der Epoche der Renaissance zu philosophieren bedeutet hat. Dabei sollen zentrale Themen des Renaissance-Denkens zur Sprache kommen: Wurde des Menschen, Freiheit des Individuums, Mensch und Welt, Religionsfreiheit, Humanismus, Natur, Naturliche Theol…Read more
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40Marco Sgarbi: The Aristotelian Tradition and the Rise of British Empiricism. Logic and Epistemology in the British Isles (review)Studia Neoaristotelica 10 (2): 247-251. 2013.
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19Humanism and Early Modern Philosophy (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 40 (1): 121-122. 2002.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Journal of the History of Philosophy 40.1 (2002) 121-122 [Access article in PDF] Book Review Humanism and Early Modern Philosophy Jill Kraye and M. W. F. Stone, editors. Humanism and Early Modern Philosophy. New York: Routledge, 2000. Pp. xii + 270. Cloth, $75.00 Early-modern philosophy begins in the seventeenth century. This book, based on a colloquium at the Warburg Institute, London in 1997, strives at extending the limits of this…Read more
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85The Epistemology of Immortality: Searle, Pomponazzi, and FicinoStudia Neoaristotelica 9 (1): 85-102. 2012.The relationship between body and mind was traditionally discussed in terms of immortality of the intellect, because immateriality was one necessary condition for the mind to be immortal. This appeared to be an issue of metaphysics and religion. But to the medieval and Renaissance thinkers, the essence of mind is thinking activity and hence an epistemological feature. Starting with John Searle’s worries about the existence of consciousness, I try to show some parallels with the Aristotelian Piet…Read more
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28La métaphysique comme théologie naturelle : Bartolomeo MastriLes Etudes Philosophiques 1 (1): 31. 2002.L’élaboration d’une théorie de l’objet sert de guide à la doctrine de la science en général, et à l’élaboration formelle du statut de la métaphysique en particulier. L’étude de Paul Richard Blum porte sur l’objet de la métaphysique selon Bartholomaeus Mastrius : l’auteur y dégage les principales positions de Mastrius, débouchant, à la suite de son modèle scotiste, sur une ontologie formelle totalement détachée de la physique, à la différence de la tradition thomiste.The elaboration of the theory…Read more
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1Truth Thrives in Diversity: Battista Mantovano and Lorenzo Valla on Thomas AquinasVerbum – Analecta Neolatina 6 215-226. 2004.
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53I felt so tall within: Anthroplogy in Slave NarrativesAnnals of Cultural Studies (Roczniki Kulturoznawcze) 4 (2): 21-39. 2013.
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28Elisabeth Blum and Paul Richard Blum, both Loyola University Maryland, jointly published: Giordano Bruno: Spaccio della bestia trionfante / Austreibung des triumphierenden Tieres, a translation form the Italian into German with introduction and extensive commentary at Meiner Verlag in Hamburg (Germany) 2009. ISBN: 978-3-7873-1805-6.
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8Federico Cesi e la fondazione dell'Accademia dei Lincei. Mostra bibliografica e documentaria. Hrsg. von Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, CERN. Napoli: Nella Sede dell'Istituto 1988. XVII und 142 Seiten (review)Berichte Zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 12 (4): 257-257. 1989.
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33Platonic References in Pererius’s Comments on the BibleQuaestio 14 215-227. 2014.Benedictus Pererius as a 16th-century Jesuit integrated Platonic and Neo-Platonic sources in his philosophical and theological works as long as they were compatible with Catholic theology. His commentary on Genesis and his theological disputations on St. Paul’s Letter to the Romans gave occasions to calibrate philosophy against theology. Pererius judges that pagan thinkers may be laudable for acknowledging the existence of God but cautions Christian readers as to the orthodoxy of such findings. …Read more
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17Daniel P. Walker: Il concetto di spirito o anima in Henry More e Ralph Cudworth. Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, Lezioni della Scuola di Studi Superiori in Napoli 5. Napoli (Bibliopolis) 1986. 98 Seiten (review)Berichte Zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 10 (3): 189-190. 1987.
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1Philosophie der frühen Neuzeit in den böhmischen LändernIntellectual History Review 20 (4): 531-533. 2010.No abstract
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8Maja Kallinen: Change and Stability. Natural Philosophy at the Academy of Turku (1640–1713). (Suomen Historiallinen Seura ‐ Finnish Historical Society: Studia Historica, Bd 51) Helsinki 1995. 439 Seiten. ISBN 951‐710‐001‐6 (review)Berichte Zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 21 (1): 4-4. 1998.
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80Wonder and Wondering in the RenaissanceIn Michael Funk Deckard & Péter Losonczi (eds.), Philosophy Begins in Wonder. An Introduction to Early Modern Philosophy, Theology, and Science, Pickwick. 2010.Wonder, miracle, occult science, poetry, and the epistemological implications in Renaissance authors: Marsilio Ficino, Giovanni Pico, Pietro Pomponazzi, Agrippa of Nettesheim, Giordano Bruno, Francesco Patrizi, Tommaso Campanella, Francisco Suárez
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Jacques Maritain Against Modern Pseudo-Humanism, in: Atti del Congresso Tomista Internazionale su l’Umanesimo Cristiano nel III Millennio: La Prospettiva di Tommaso d’Aquino, 21-25 Settembre 2003, Vatican City (Pontificia Academia Sancti Thomae Aquinatis) 2004, 780-791 (also available at: http://e-aquinas.net/pdf/blum.pdf). (review)http://e-aquinas.net/pdf/blum.pdf. 2004.
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103The immortality of the soulIn James Hankins (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. 2007.
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1124MICHAEL POLANYI: CAN THE MIND BE REPRESENTED BY A MACHINE?Polanyiana 19 (1-2): 35-60. 2010.In 1949, the Department of Philosophy at the University of Manchester organized a symposium “Mind and Machine” with Michael Polanyi, the mathematicians Alan Turing and Max Newman, the neurologists Geoff rey Jeff erson and J. Z. Young, and others as participants. Th is event is known among Turing scholars, because it laid the seed for Turing’s famous paper on “Computing Machinery and Intelligence”, but it is scarcely documented. Here, the transcript of this event, together with Polanyi’s original…Read more
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Giordano Bruno's Changing of Default PositionsIn Anne Eusterschulte & Henning S. Hufnagel (eds.), Turning traditions upside down: rethinking Giordano Bruno's enlightenment, Central European University Press. pp. 13-18. 2013.
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19Religion – Gesellschaft – Demokratie. Ausgewählte Aufsätze (review)Review of Metaphysics 58 (1): 177-178. 2004.Western Creed, Western Identity: such was the title of a volume of collected essays by Jude P. Dougherty published in 2000; most of these essays are now made available in this German translation. Since the author is well known to the readership of the Review of Metaphysics, which he has served as editor for thirty years, his thought need not to be introduced by way of a book review; rather, it will be of interest to emphasize the timeliness of these studies for the German audience.
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35'Et nuper plethon'—ficino's praise of Georgios gemistos plethon and his rational religionIn Stephen Clucas, Peter J. Forshaw & Valery Rees (eds.), Laus Platonici philosophi: Marsilio Ficino and his influence, Brill. pp. 89. 2011.Paul Richard Blum Et nuper Plethon – Ficino's Praise of Georgios Gemistos ABSTRACT Most authors who refer to Marsilio Ficino's famous Prooemium to his translation of Plotinus, addressed to Lorenzo de'Medici, discuss the alleged foundation of the Platonic Academy in Florence, but rarely continue reading down the same page, where – for a second time – Georgios Gemistos Plethon is mentioned. The passage contains more than one surprising claim: 1. Pletho is a reliable interpreter of Aristotle. 2. Pl…Read more
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7Platonische Liebe: Eine wahre GeschichteIn Günter Frank, Anja Hallacker & Sebastian Lalla (eds.), Erzählende Vernunft, Akademie Verlag. pp. 19-28. 2006.
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114Benedictus Pererius: Renaissance Culture at the Origins of Jesuit ScienceScience & Education 15 (2-4): 279-304. 2006.
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On Popular Platonism: Giovanni Pico with Elia del Medigo against Marsilio FicinoIn Sabrina Ebbersmeyer (ed.), Sol et homo. Mensch und Natur in der Renaissance, Fink. 2008.
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16Soldier or Scholar: Stratocles or WarApprendice House. 2009.ISBN-13: 978-1934074480
Plot Summary from the book:
"An aristocratic young man, fed up with his studies, contemplates military service. His teacher is unable by any reasoning to call him back him from the path he has embarked upon. The young man enlists another youth who commits himself to the journey, dressed in military garb, and he happens upon two deserting soldiers, unsightly and ill-used both in their dress and in their hygiene. Both young men are so moved by the deserters’ remarks depl…Read more
Ludwig Maximilians Universität, München
Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Study of Religion
PhD, 1978
Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Mind |
Philosophy of Religion |
Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |