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Questions on the Posterior Analytics (Second Redaction) - cover image

Book Series

Copyright

Simon of Faversham; Iacopo Costa; Gustavo Fernández Walker; John Longeway; Ana María Mora-Márquez;

Published On

2025-09-18

ISBN

Paperback978-1-80511-602-8
Hardback978-1-80511-603-5
PDF978-1-80511-604-2

Language

  • English
  • Latin

Print Length

331 pages (xxii+309)

Dimensions

Paperback156 x 18 x 234 mm(6.14" x 0.71" x 9.21")
Hardback156 x 19 x 234 mm(6.14" x 0.75" x 9.21")

Weight

Paperback468g (16.51oz)
Hardback642g (22.65oz)

OCLC Number

1537021937

THEMA

  • NHDJ
  • GTB
  • QDHF

BISAC

  • PHI012000
  • SCI034000
  • HIS037010

Keywords

  • Simon of Faversham
  • Medieval demonstration
  • scientia
  • Medieval science
  • Medieval philosophy

Questions on the Posterior Analytics (Second Redaction)

Simon of Faversham was an English scholar affiliated with the University of Paris during the 1280s, where he most likely wrote his commentaries on Aristotle’s philosophical works. The Posterior Analytics, one of Aristotle’s most important treatises, addresses the nature of scientific demonstration. Faversham’s two extant commentaries on The Posterior Analytics are invaluable witnesses to key elements of late medieval accounts of scientific demonstration, including views on the extent and limits of demonstration, its metaphysical underpinnings, and its epistemic power.

The commentary edited here, together with the accompanying translation, offers new insight into Simon of Faversham’s philosophy—a fascinating chapter in the history of late medieval thought. It also deepens our understanding of the philosophical discussions on demonstration and related topics that took place during the early period of Europe’s university history, and of the ways in which these discussions drew on earlier philosophical developments in non-European traditions, notably the Islamic philosophical tradition.

Contents

Introduction

(pp. ix–xx)
  • Iacopo Costa
  • Gustavo Fernández Walker
  • John Longeway
  • Ana María Mora-Márquez

Book 1

(pp. 2–191)
  • Iacopo Costa
  • Gustavo Fernández Walker
  • Ana María Mora-Márquez
  • John Longeway
  • Matthew Wennemann

Book 2

(pp. 192–302)
  • Iacopo Costa
  • Ana María Mora-Márquez
  • Gustavo Fernández Walker
  • John Longeway
  • Matthew Wennemann

Bibliography

(pp. 303–306)
  • Iacopo Costa
  • John Longeway
  • Ana María Mora-Márquez
  • Gustavo Fernández Walker

Contributors

Iacopo Costa

(editor)
Directeur de recherche, PSL at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
https://orcid.org/0009-0004-1250-0202

Iacopo Costa is « directeur de recherche » at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). He specializes in the history of philosophy and theology in the late Middle Ages, and works also as a text editor. Among his most important publications is the critical edition of Radulphus Brito's commentary on Nicomachean Ethics (in Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis, 2022).

Gustavo Fernández Walker

(editor)
Assistant researcher at the Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science at University of Gothenburg
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0345-7949

Gustavo Fernandez Walker is assistant researcher at the University of Gothenburg. He got his Phd in Philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and a PhD in Philology and Hermeneutics at the Università del Salento, Italy. He has held postdoctoral fellowships in Buenos Aires, Dresden and Gothenburg.

Ana María Mora-Márquez

(editor)
Senior Lecturer in Theoretical Philosophy at Lund University
External Researcher Affiliated to the CNRS research center SPHERE at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9091-4863

Ana María Mora-Márquez is senior lecturer in Theoretical Philosophy at Lund University and the PI of a research projects on the medieval reception of Aristotles’ philosophy of science. She has written extensively on medieval Aristotelian logic and epistemology, edited medieval logical texts, and published the book "The Thirteenth-Century Notion of Signification” (Brill 2015).

John Longeway

(translator)

John Longeway is professor of medieval philosophy at University of Wisconsin, now in retirement. He has published extensively on medieval and renaissance epistemology and philosophy of science, and on Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics and its medieval reception.

Matthew Wennemann

(translator)
PhD Candidate in the Philosophy Department at University of Colorado Boulder
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0995-843X

Matthew Wennemann is a PhD Candidate in the Philosophy Department at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is specializing in medieval philosophy, especially the thought of John Duns Scotus.

Simon of Faversham

(author)