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    Selon les histoires classiques de la philosophie, il aurait fallu attendre le XVe siècle pour voir le retour de Platon et de Pythagore sur la scène de la pensée. Pourtant, au XIVe siècle, bien avant la Renaissance, un noble vénitien, Marco Trevisano, écrit pour son fils un livre intitulé Du macrocosme. Il s'y définit lui-même comme un disciple des deux géants antiques et décrit l'origine du monde et sa constitution en termes mathématiques. Ce texte, encore inédit à ce jour, n'a jam…Read more
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    Dans les grandes histoires de l’épicurisme, seul Nicolas d’Autrécourt est parfois mentionné pour le Moyen Âge en raison de son atomisme. Bien qu’il ne se dise jamais épicurien et qu’il refuserait probablement cette étiquette, il défend une thèse longtemps associée à Épicure : tout ce qui apparaît est vrai. Bien qu’il ait pu savoir qu’il s’agissait d’une thèse épicurienne, nous faisons l’hypothèse qu’il arrive à ce résultat parce que leur ambition était la même : sauver Démocrite sans tomber dans…Read more
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    No abstract
  • Atomism and its Place in Natural Philosophy (edited book)
    with Christophe Grellard
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    International audience.
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    In his commentary on Aristotle’s Physics, Nicole Oresme raises a question that he is apparently the first to ask in these terms, in such a context: do all beings have the desire to persevere into being? Before him, this question is not found in any of the medieval commentaries on Aristotle’s Physics. But after him it became canonical until at least the 16th century, since it can be found in Pietro Pomponazzi’s works for example. The novelty here consists in questioning the validity of Averroes’ …Read more
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    La philosophie de Blaise de Parme: physique, psychologie, éthique (edited book)
    with J. Biard
    SISMEL - Edizioni del Galluzzo. 2019.
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    Brill's Companion to the Reception of Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (edited book)
    with Irene Caiazzo and Constantinos Macris
    BRILL. 2021.
    For the first time, the reader can have a synoptic view of the reception of Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, East and West, in a multicultural perspective. All the major themes of Pythagoreanism are addressed, from mathematics, number philosophy and metaphysics to ethics and religious thought.
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    Space, Imagination, and Numbers in John Wyclif’s Mathematical Theology
    In Carla Palmerino, Delphine Bellis & Frederik Bakker (eds.), Space, Imagination and the Cosmos From Antiquity to the Early Modern Period, Springer Verlag. pp. 107-131. 2018.
    The aim of this paper is to show that John Wyclif’s theory of space is at once an interpretation of the Platonic theory of place and a Neopythagorean conception of magnitudes and numbers. The result is an original form of mathematical atomism in which atoms are point-like entities with a particular situation in space. If the core of this view comes from Boethius’ De arithmetica, John Wyclif is also influenced by Robert Grosseteste’s metaphysics, which includes the Boethian number theory within t…Read more
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    Nature Humaine et Complexion du Corps Chez les Médecins Italiens de la Fin du Moyen Âge
    with Joël Chandelier
    Revue de Synthèse 134 (4): 473-510. 2013.
    Comment définir l’homme d’un point de vue médical, sans tomber dans un pur matérialisme? Voilà la question que se posèrent les médecins italiens de la fin du Moyen Âge lorsqu’ils élaborèrent une théorie complète de la notion de complexion, conçue comme « qualité substantielle » propre à l’homme, mais variant dans certaines limites en fonction de l’hérédité, du régime, de l’âge ou encore des climats et des moeurs. Dès lors, certains de ces médecins pouvaient envisager d’améliorer, par leur art, n…Read more
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    L’Anthropologie des Médecins
    with Joël Chandelier
    Revue de Synthèse 134 (4): 415-419. 2013.
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    Humanités Médicales
    with Joël Chandelier, Laetitia Loviconi, Emanuele Coccia, and Matthieu Niango
    Revue de Synthèse 134 (4): 553-569. 2013.
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    Correspondance. Articles condamnés (review)
    Dialogue 42 (1): 159-161. 2003.
    Le lecteur francophone peut enfin apprécier ce qui subsiste de la correspondance entre Nicolas d’Autrécourt, Bernard d’Arezzo et Gilles du Foin. Malgré les quelques lettres perdues, les deux lettres envoyées à Bernard, la lettre de Gilles et la réponse de Nicolas sont autant de témoignages remarquables des discussions philosophiques du XIVe siècle. On trouvera aussi dans ce volume, en annexe, quelques textes choisis avec soin, pertinents pour une bonne compréhension de la philosophie autrécurien…Read more
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    Religion and science
    with Social Sciencesl
    Zygon 35 (3-4): 717. 2000.
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    William Crathorn's mereotopological atomism
    In Christophe Grellard & Aurélien Robert (eds.), Atomism in late medieval philosophy and theology, Brill. pp. 9--127. 2009.
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    Atomism
    In H. Lagerlund (ed.), Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy, Springer. pp. 122--125. 2011.
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    Scepticisme ou renoncement au dogme?
    Chôra 6 251-288. 2008.
    It is well known that during the Middle Ages the Eucharist was not only a theological question but also a philosophical one. Recent studies have shown the semantical and ontological problems concerning the status of substances and accidents after the transsubstantiation. Here the paper focuses on the gnoseological problem of the Eucharist. How do we know that the substance has changed after the consecration of the host? Moreover, how do we manage to know substances in general if sometimes it cha…Read more
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    When contemporary philosophers look at the medieval debate on intentionality, they usually have in mind what we call “Brentano’s thesis”. Indeed, Brentano ascribes to some medieval philosophers the thesis according to which objects of thought have a special kind of being that explains how can our thoughts be about this or that kind of things. Here, we decided to focus on the debates among the so-called “Latin Averroists”, because they clearly show that the medieval question on intentionality can…Read more
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    Contrary to what is generally said about the reception of Epicurus in the Middle Ages, many medieval authors agreed on his great wisdom, even if he made some philosophical and theological errors. From the 12th century to the 14th century on can find several "Lives of Epicurus" in which the best sayings of Epicurus are gathered from ancient sources (Seneca, Cicero, Lactantius, etc.). In this paper, we follow these quite unknown sources about Epicureanism in the Middle Ages. We try to show that if…Read more
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    Scepticisme ou renoncement au dogme?
    Chôra 6 251-288. 2008.
    It is well known that during the Middle Ages the Eucharist was not only a theological question but also a philosophical one. Recent studies have shown the semantical and ontological problems concerning the status of substances and accidents after the transsubstantiation. Here the paper focuses on the gnoseological problem of the Eucharist. How do we know that the substance has changed after the consecration of the host? Moreover, how do we manage to know substances in general if sometimes it cha…Read more