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74Translations: Giordano Bruno Teaches Aristotle. Nordhausen (Bautz) 2016 (Studia Classica et Medievalia 12) ) Giordano Bruno lettore di Aristotele. Ricezione e critica. Lugano (Agorà) 2016 (Novae Insulae: Testi e storia della filosofia 3)
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297Michael Polanyi: Can the Mind Be Represented by a Machine?Existence and Anthropology. 2010.On the 27th of October, 1949, the Department of Philosophy at the University of Manchester organized a symposium "Mind and Machine", as Michael Polanyi noted in his Personal Knowledge (1974, p. 261). This event is known, especially among scholars of Alan Turing, but it is scarcely documented. Wolfe Mays (2000) reported about the debate, which he personally had attended, and paraphrased a mimeographed document that is preserved at the Manchester University archive. He forwarded a copy to Andrew H…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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90Jesuiten zwischen Religion und WissenschaftBerichte Zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 18 (4): 205-216. 1995.Natural sciences and natural philosophy of the Jesuits are based on theology. At least the concept of God is an integral part of their theoretical structure. Examples are taken from Rudjer Boskovic, Honoré Fabri and Nicolaus Cabeus. In fact, the Jesuits, e.g. Theophil Raynaud, dealt with natural theology as the spiritual foundation of knowledge independent of revelation. But natural theology, as in Raimundus Sabundus, has an anthropocentric and hence moral dimension: it links knowledge with reli…Read more
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33Sentiendum 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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112Giordano 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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162Philosophy of Religion in the RenaissanceAshgate. 2010.Contents: Preface; From faith to reason for fideism: Raymond Lull, Raimundus Sabundus and Michel de Montaigne; Nicholas of Cusa and Pythagorean theology; Giordano Bruno's philosophy of religion; Coluccio Salutati: hermeneutics of humanity; Humanism applied to language, logic and religion: Lorenzo Valla; Georgios Gemistos Plethon: from paganism to Christianity and back; Marsilio Ficino's philosophical theology; Giovanni Pico against popular Platonism; Tommaso Campanella: God makes sense in the wo…Read more
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Principles and powers: how to interpret Renaissance philosophy of nature philosophically? in "Minerva - An Internet Journal of Philosophy" 5 166-181 (review)Http://Www.Ul.Ie/~Philos/Vol5/. 2001.
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1Agrippa Von nettesheim (1486-1535) : Philosophical magic, empiricism, and skepticismIn Paul Richard Blum (ed.), Philosophers of the Renaissance, Catholic University of America Press. 2010.
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1070Péter Pázmánys SeelenlehreIn Alinka Ajkay Rita Bajáki (ed.), Pázmány Nyomában. Tanulmányok Hargittay Emil tiszteletére, Mondat. 2013.Péter Pázmány taught philosophy at the Jesuit university of Graz, end of 16th century. This analyzes his interpretation of Aristotelian psychology.
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Lorenz Valla. Humanismus als PhilosophieIn Philosophen der Renaissance, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft/primus. 1999.
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125The immortality of the soulIn James Hankins (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. 2007.
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94Istoriar la figuraAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 77 (2): 189-212. 2003.Syncretism is a challenge to modern philosophy, but it was the main characteristic of Giordano Bruno’s thought. This has been made clear by Frances A. Yates, who in interpreting Bruno and Renaissance Hermeticism was not afraid of connecting theories and cultural expressions which on the surface are alien to philosophy. In doing so Yates was congenial to her object of study, as syncretism of theory was no mere side effect of Hermeticism, but had a philosophical aim. This aim can be identified as …Read more
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127Inhalt: Descartes und das scholastische Argumentieren - Scholastik und Humanismus im Bildungsprogramm der Jesuiten - Nikolaus Cusanus - Marsilio Ficino - Giordano Bruno - Studienordnung und Philosophiebegriff: die Ratio studiorum SJ - Der...
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73Federico 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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96Daniel 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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Pourchot EdmundIn Luc Foisneau (ed.), The dictionary of seventeenth-century French philosophers, Thoemmes. 2008.
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162Michael Polanyi: the anthropology of intellectual historyStudies in East European Thought 62 (2): 197-216. 2010.Scientific and political developments of the early twentieth century led Michael Polanyi to study the role of the scientist in research and the interaction between the individual scholar and the surrounding conditions in community and society. In his concept of “personal knowledge” he gave the theory and history of science an anthropological turn. In many instances of the history of sciences, research is driven by a commitment to beliefs and values. Society plays the role of authority and commun…Read more
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94The Transformation of Natural Philosophy: The Case of Philip Melanchthon. Sachiko KusukawaIsis 87 (3): 541-542. 1996.
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58Kants Vorsehungskonzept auf dem Hintergrund der deutschen Schulphilosophie und -Theologie (review)American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 83 (1): 161-164. 2009.
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79Elisabeth 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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70Giordano Bruno, Matthias Aquarius und die eklektische ScholastikArchiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 72 (3): 275-300. 1990.
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58'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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192Philosophers 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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185Benedictus Pererius: Renaissance Culture at the Origins of Jesuit ScienceScience & Education 15 (2-4): 279-304. 2006.
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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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291Francesco Patrizi in the "Time-Sack": History and Rhetorical PhilosophyJournal of the History of Ideas 61 (1): 59-74. 2000.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Journal of the History of Ideas 61.1 (2000) 59-74 [Access article in PDF] Francesco Patrizi in the "Time-Sack": History and Rhetorical Philosophy * Paul Richard Blum Contemporary theory of history is much concerned with the narrative structure of history, its nature, and its epistemic status. 1 The problem is not only that sources present events mostly wrapped in narrative language but also that temporality is an inherent feature bot…Read more
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