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

Book Series

Copyright

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

ISBN

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

Language

  • English

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)

    FORTHCOMING
    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.

    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 CNRS and teaches philosophy at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He is a member of the Leonine Commission (Paris). He is a specialist of the history of moral philosophy and theology and particularly of the Latin reception of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics in the 13th and 14th centuries. He has published several critical editions of Scholastic texts, as well as articles concerning medieval ethics.

    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.

    John Longeway

    (editor)

    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.

    Ana María Mora-Márquez

    (editor)
    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 an external researcher affiliated to the CNRS research center SPHERE. She is the author of several studies on medieval logic, epistemology and philosophy of language. She has led a project on the medieval reception of Aristotle’s topics and is at present the principal investigator of a research project on Aristotelian epistemology of science, which aims to identify and analyze socio-epistemic elements in the medieval reception of Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics. Both projects have been funded through a Wallenberg Academy Fellowship (Sweden) that she obtained in 2015 and runs until 2027.

    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.