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41Scholastic Logic and Cartesian LogicPerspectives on Science 26 (5): 533-547. 2018.As Roger Ariew shows, one of the most fascinating challenges for the authors trying to create a Cartesian complete course on philosophy was coming up with a Cartesian Logic based on the existing texts of the master. Were the few simple rules from the Discourse on Method the "logic" of Descartes? Were the Rules for the Direction of the Mind "logic"? How can we even have a logic without syllogism? When looking at the authors studied by Ariew one finds that the best that they could come up was addi…Read more
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1336Theories of mixture in the early modern period. JEMS 4.1 (Spring) (edited book)Zeta Books. 2015.Special issue of the Journal for Early Modern Studies (4.1., Spring 2005) Guest Editor: Lucian Petrescu.
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393Cartesian Meteors and Scholastic Meteors: Descartes against the School in 1637Journal of the History of Ideas 76 (1): 25-45. 2015.This essay presents Descartes’s anti-hylomorphism in The Meteors published in 1637 and in the unpublished works that precede it, The World (Treatise on Light) and the Rules for the Direction of the Mind.
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620Philosophia peripatetica emendata. Leibniz and Des Bosses on the Aristotelian Corporeal SubstanceJournal of the History of Philosophy 54 (3): 421-440. 2016.A few months before his death, Leibniz wrote to Des Bosses, My doctrine of composite substance seems to be the very doctrine of the Peripatetic school, except that their doctrine does not recognize monads. But I add them, with no detriment to the doctrine itself. You will hardly find another difference, even if you are bent on doing so.1 It is tempting to take Leibniz’s profession of Aristotelian orthodoxy as circumstantial: the entire correspondence he had with the Jesuit Father Bartholomew Des…Read more
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520Descartes on the Heartbeat: The Leuven AffairPerspectives on Science 21 (4): 397-428. 2013.There is an interesting historical detour in the dissemination of one of the seventeenth century’s most praised discoveries: the reception of Harvey’s account of the circulation of the blood is closely intertwined, especially in the Low Countries, with Descartes’ account of the origin of the heartbeat. Descartes was one of the first figures to support the circulation of the blood and to give credit to Harvey for it, although he presumably arrived at the same conclusion independently through his …Read more
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435Renaissance Averroism and Its Aftermath: Arabic Philosophy in Early Modern EuropeJournal of Early Modern Studies 5 (1): 189-194. 2016.
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524Hylomorphism versus the Theory of Elements in Late Aristotelianism: Péter Pázmány and the Sixteenth-Century Exegesis of Meteorologica IVVivarium 52 (1-2): 147-172. 2014.This paper investigates Péter Pázmány’s theory of mixtures from his exegesis of Meteorologica IV, in the context of sixteenth-century scholarship on Aristotle’s Meteorologica. It aims to contribute to a discussion of Anneliese Maier’s thesis concerning the incompatibility between hylomorphism and the theory of elements in the Aristotelian tradition. It presents two problems: the placement of Meteorologica IV in the Jesuit cursus on physics and the conceptualization of putrefaction as a type of s…Read more
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193Une autre histoire de la philosophie du XVIIe siècle. Journée en hommage à l’oeuvre de Geneviève Rodis-LewisNouvelles de la République des Lettres 2 87-89. 2005.
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959John Duns Scotus and the Ontology of MixtureRes Philosophica 91 (3): 315-337. 2014.This paper presents Duns Scotus’s theory of mixture in the context of medieval discussions over Aristotle’s theory of mixed bodies. It revisits the accounts of mixture given by Avicenna, Averroes, and Thomas Aquinas, before presenting Scotus’s account as a reaction to Averroes. It argues that Duns Scotus rejected the Aristotelian theory of mixture altogether and that his account went contrary to the entire Latin tradition. Scotus denies that mixts arise out of the four classical elements and he …Read more
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