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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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103The immortality of the soulIn James Hankins (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. 2007.
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1151MICHAEL 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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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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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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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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36'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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8Platonische Liebe: Eine wahre GeschichteIn Günter Frank, Anja Hallacker & Sebastian Lalla (eds.), Erzählende Vernunft, Akademie Verlag. pp. 19-28. 2006.
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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 -
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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9The Transformation of Natural Philosophy: The Case of Philip Melanchthon by Sachiko Kusukawa (review)Isis 87 541-542. 1996.
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55Translations: 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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Lorenzo valla (1406/7-1457) : Humanism as philosophyIn Philosophers of the Renaissance, Catholic University of America Press. 2010.
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34Istoriar 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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1God and individuals. The Arbor-Porphyriana in the 17th and 18th centuriesRivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica 91 (1): 18-49. 1999.
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Pico, theology, and the churchIn M. V. Dougherty (ed.), Pico Della Mirandola: New Essays, Cambridge University Press. 2007.
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44Das Wagnis, ein Mensch zu sein: Geschichte - Natur - ReligionLit Verlag. 2010."Die eigentliche Optik Paul Richard Blums sollte man akkurat als holistisch bezeichnen. Es handelt sich um ein verborgenes Streben nach Ganzheitlichkeit, das diesem Buch eine methodologische Einheit gibt. ... Ein Mensch zu sein nach dem Zeitalter der Renaissance und Moderne ... bedeutet die Aufgabe, sich in einer strukturellen und inhaltlichen Offenheit zu situieren, die die verschiedenen Antworten auf die Frage: Was heißt es, ein Mensch zu sein? in der paradoxen Einheit eines neuen Humanismus z…Read more
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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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14„A pretty curious circumstance in the history of sciences”︁: David Humes Naturalisierung der ReligionBerichte Zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 23 (2): 143-155. 2000.
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269Michael 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…Read more
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25The Lost Italian Renaissance: Humanists, Historians, and Latin's Legacy (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 43 (4): 485-487. 2005.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:The Lost Italian Renaissance: Humanists, Historians, and Latin’s LegacyPaul Richard BlumChristopher S. Celenza. The Lost Italian Renaissance: Humanists, Historians, and Latin’s Legacy. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. Pp. xx + 210. Cloth, $45.00This is a programmatic book about why and how philosophy should care about Renaissance texts. Celenza starts with an assessment of the neglect of the wealth of …Read more
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599Péter 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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18Jesuiten 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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39Giordano Bruno, Matthias Aquarius und die eklektische ScholastikArchiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 72 (3): 275-300. 1990.
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Einleitung. Philosophie in der RenaissanceIn Philosophen der Renaissance, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft/primus. 1999.
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132Philosophy 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 w…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 |