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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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Pico, theology, and the churchIn M. V. Dougherty (ed.), Pico Della Mirandola: New Essays, Cambridge University Press. 2007.
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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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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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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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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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15Jesuiten 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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19The 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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582Péter 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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39Giordano Bruno, Matthias Aquarius und die eklektische ScholastikArchiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 72 (3): 275-300. 1990.
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131Philosophy 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
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Einleitung. Philosophie in der RenaissanceIn Philosophen der Renaissance, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft/primus. 1999.
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5Bildung und Unbildung im 16. Jahrhundert Ein Gastseminar in WolfenbüttelBerichte Zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 6 (1-4): 194-194. 1983.
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Lorenz Valla. Humanismus als PhilosophieIn Philosophen der Renaissance, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft/primus. 1999.
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11The Transformation of Natural Philosophy: The Case of Philip Melanchthon. Sachiko KusukawaIsis 87 (3): 541-542. 1996.
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Auf dem Weg zur Prozessmetaphysik: Die Funktion der Monaden in Giordano Brunos PhilosophiePerspektiven der Philosophie 27 77-102. 2001.
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10Istoriar 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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Trinity and Triangle -- Giordano Bruno's Secularizing of the Cusanian TrinitySoter 14 (42). 2004.Nicholas of Cusa (1402-1464) explored the boundaries of human reason for the sake of making religious belief believable. Unwillingly, he became a milestone in the process of rationalizing Christian theology. Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) is a proof to this perspective by the way he makes use of Cusanus’s approach. In his ’Spaccio de la bestia trionfante’, Bruno discusses Cusanus’s attempts at the geometrical problem of squaring the circle. Bruno not only promotes his atomistic geometry, he also use…Read more
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100Inhalt: 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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29Giordano BrunoBeck. 1999.Vorbemerkung „Nichts unter der Sonne ist neu," war Giordano Brunos Leitspruch. Dennoch ist es angebracht, ihn als einen Denker vorzustellen, der eine eigene ...
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Pourchot EdmundIn Luc Foisneau (ed.), The Dictionary of Seventeenth-Century French Philosophers, Thoemmes. 2008.
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9Epistemology and Cosmology in Neoplatonism: Is Cognition a Mind-Body-Problem? Paper at Cosmos, Nature, Culture - A Transdisciplinary Conference Metanexus Conference July 18-21, 2009, Phoenix, Arizona (review)http://www.metanexus.net/conference2009/articles/Default.aspx?id=10790. 2009.
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102Michael 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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180Francesco 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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A Természet, Mint Személy: Adalékok a természet fogalmának történetéhezMagyar Filozofiai Szemle 4. 2001.
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 |