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1Heroic Exercises: Giordano Bruno’s De gli eroici furori as a Response to Ignatius of Loyola’s Exercitia spiritualiaBrunina and Campanelliana 18 359-373. 2012.
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5Sentiendum cum paucis, loquendum cum multis: Die aristotelische Schulphilosophie und die Versuchungen der Naturwissenschaften bei Melchior Cornaeus SJIn Vivian Nutton, Jutta Kolesh, H. J. Lulofs & Jürgen Wiesner (eds.), Kommentierung, Überlieferung, Nachleben, De Gruyter. pp. 538-559. 1985.
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13Erfahrung, Weltbild und Erkenntnis bei Nikolaus Cusanus†Berichte Zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 14 (2): 97-105. 1991.To explain the interaction of stillness and motion of thought, Nicholas Cusanus formulated his renowned comparison with a cosmographer, which through five gateways, corresponding to the five senses, receives information about the world in the form of messages. What follows therefrom is not directly an analysis of the world but of the Creator, whom the philosopher mirrors in himself as a creator of scientific symbols.Cusanus was repeatedly suspected of Pantheism. What is crucial, however, for the…Read more
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168Philosophers of the Renaissance (edited book)Catholic University of America Press. 2010.*A rich and accessible introduction to the philosophical thought that shaped modernity*
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230Cultivating Talents and Social ResponsibilityHttps://Inside.Loyola.Edu/Teams/Peace_and_justice_studies/Lists/Team%20Discussion/Attachments/1/Blum%20cultivating%20talents%20revised.Pdf
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Principles And Powers: How To Interpret Renaissance Philosophy Of Nature Philosophically?Minerva 5 166-181. 2001.The history of philosophy has to understand the problems to which past theories are intended as answers,rather than taking the latter as sets of doctrines, which may be correct or mistaken. Examples from theRenaissance are Nicholas of Cusa, Marsilio Ficino, Bernardino Telesio, Girolamo Cardano, and BenedictusPererius: they show that Renaissance thinkers sought for principles of nature in terms of active powers.Whoever denies the validity of such ideas has the burden of proof that alternative the…Read more
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14Albert Krayer: Mathematik im Studienplan der Jesuiten. Die Vorlesung von Otto Cattenius an der Universität Mainz (1610/11). (Beiträge zur Geschichte der Universität Mainz, Bd 15) Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag 1991. IX + 434 Seiten, DM 98 (review)Berichte Zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 17 (2): 144-144. 1994.
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11Medical Humanism and Natural Philosophy. Renaissance Debates on Matter, Life and the SoulAnnals of Science 1-5. 2013.
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The Young Paul Oskar Kristeller as a PhilosopherIn John Monfasani (ed.), Kristeller Reconsidered, Essays on His Life and Scholarship, Italica. 2006.
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Introduction: Philosophy in the renaissanceIn Philosophers of the Renaissance, Catholic University of America Press. 2010.
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3The Historiographical Concept 'System of Philosophy': Its Origin, Nature, Influence, and LegitimacyIntellectual History Review 20 (2): 295-297. 2010.No abstract
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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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20Humanism 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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54I 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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35Platonic 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.
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 |