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Wilkins, John
One of the founding fathers of the Royal Society, Wilkins’ early natural philosophical works contain defenses of Galilean and Copernican astronomy....
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De Volder’s Views on Metaphysics and on the Method of Natural Philosophy
In this chapter I focus on De Volder’s ideas on metaphysics, namely, on De Volder’s alleged Spinozism, as well as on his ideas on certainty and on...
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Streben
›Streben‹ (oregesthai) und das entsprechende abstrakte Hauptwort ›Strebung‹ (orexis) bilden den Oberbegriff für alle konativen Zustände, d. h. für...
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Phantasia
Phantasia ist ein terminologischer Ausdruck aus Aristoteles’ philosophischer Psychologie. Er bezeichnet das Vermögen von Lebewesen,...
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Leoniceno, Nicolò
A major humanist physician and Hellenist, owner of a conspicuous library, translator of Galen, editor of Dioscorides in Greek, and promoter of a new...
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Experimentation in the Life Sciences
This chapter provides a brief overview of the increasing importance of experimentation in the life sciences from the seventeenth century to the...
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Life in Renaissance Philosophy
The concept of life has always served as an idea integrating thoughts on this world and the afterlife, on the physical and the spiritual existence....
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The Life and the Works of Burchard de Volder
In this chapter I reconstruct De Volder’s education and intellectual career at Amsterdam, Utrecht and Leiden, by taking into account the biographical...
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Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas on Charity and the Common Good
This article draws attention to the conception of charity found in two important Dominican theologians of the thirteenth century, namely Albert the...
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Copernicus, Nicolaus
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) – astronomer, mathematician, physician, and Catholic clergyman – was one of the most important contributors of the...
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Jørgensen’s Dilemma in the Interface Between Legal Positivism and the Natural Law Tradition
The questions about the relation between the fields of logic and that of prescriptive norms represent only one of the aspects of a broader field of...
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Before Natural Acceleration
By way of introduction, the chapter considers aspects of Galileo’s considerations regarding motion and mechanics prior to his conceptual shift toward...
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Croatian Renaissance Philosophy
Turbulent political situation and no continuity of organized philosophical activity on the territory of the present-day Croatia in the Renaissance...
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Cartesianismus-Streit in Frankfurt an der Oder: Johannes Placentinus and His Opponents, 1653–1656
In the second half of the sixteenth century, a quarrel over Descartes and the new philosophy burst out at Brandenburg University in Frankfurt an der...
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The Natural Philosophical Foundations for Astrological Revolutions: Albertus Magnus’s Commentary on the Pseudo-Aristotelian De Causis Proprietatum Elementorum
Now that I have established the fundamentally similar structures of astrologizing Aristotelian natural philosophy in the works of Albertus Magnus and...