“Suarez dans l histoire de la métaphysique – Volume I – L’héritage et le débat contemporain”, by J.-P. Coujou

More information The rich and diversified dialogue that Suárez proposes with the history of metaphysics has effects on the representation that the human being implements in relation to the limits of his knowledge, the use of his faculties, and the [...]

By |2023-04-07T10:02:53+00:00April 7th, 2023|News|0 Comments

“Pedro da Fonseca: Humanism and Metaphysics”, ed. by S. Guidi, M. S. de Carvalho

More information Also known as the “Portuguese Aristotle”, Pedro da Fonseca S. J. (1527-1599) was a prominent figure in early modern scholasticism and particularly in the history of the Society of Jesus. He laid the groundwork for the publication of [...]

By |2023-03-04T10:10:13+00:00March 4th, 2023|News|0 Comments

“Distinction and Identity in Late-Scholastic Thought and Beyond”, 15-17 May 2023 @ Louvain-La-Neuve

More information The conference, organized by Claus Asbjørn Andersen and Jacob Schmutz, aims to bring together scholars working on different strands of Late-Medieval and Early-Modern thought. Its broader focus is on the general variety of distinctions (formal, modal, rational, real, [...]

By |2023-01-30T15:17:38+00:00January 30th, 2023|Events & CFP, News|0 Comments

Lexicon Philosophicum 9 – “Superstitio”, ed. by C. Buccolini and E. Pasini

More information and download The latest issue of Lexicon Philosophicum: International Journal for the History of Texts and Ideas is out. The journal is published by the Institute for the European Intellectual Lexicon and History of Ideas (ILIESI - CNR). [...]

By |2023-01-19T09:32:46+00:00January 19th, 2023|News|0 Comments

Quaestio N. 22: “For a History (and Prehistory) of Ontology: Method, Lexicon, Concepts”, ed. by F. Fronterotta, A. Ragni

More information and purchase Quaestio No. 22 came out. The volume contains a special issue on the History of Ontology, edited by Francesco Fronterotta and Alice Ragni. An additional special section is devoted to John Duns Scotus and His Legacy. [...]

By |2023-01-06T12:42:24+00:00January 6th, 2023|News|0 Comments

“Aristotelianism and Magic in Early Modern Europe: Philosophers, Experimenters and Wonderworkers”, ed. by D. Verardi

More information and purchase Magic is central to Aristotle's philosophy in this wide-ranging collection of essays that re-frame his natural philosophy. From late Mediaeval and Renaissance discussions on the attribution of magical works to Aristotle, to the philosophical and social [...]

By |2022-12-21T08:39:35+00:00December 21st, 2022|News|0 Comments

“Mirabilis Scientiae Fundamenta: Der Anfang Der Kartesischen Philosophie”, ed. by D. Arbib , V. Carraud , E. Mehl , W. Schweidler

More information and purchase The Lord gave it to him in his sleep... Four hundred years ago, in Neuburg, René Descartes dreamed up the method of "wonderful science" that was to become the foundation of rational science in modern times. An [...]

By |2022-12-21T08:20:47+00:00December 21st, 2022|News|0 Comments

“Ramon Llull y los Lulistas (Siglos XIV-XX)”, ed. by Rafael Ramis Barceló

More information and purchase This book comes out as a joint project between the Institute for Hispanic Studies in Modernity (IEHM) and the Spanish Province of the TOR of St. Francis. Since a systematic study of the dimensions of the [...]

By |2022-12-12T18:38:30+00:00December 12th, 2022|News|0 Comments

“Peter of Auvergne, Questiones super I-VII libros Politicorum. A Critical Edition and Study”, ed. by Marco Toste

More information and purchase This volume is the first complete critical edition of Peter of Auvergne’s Questiones super I-VII libros Politicorum. The Questiones was produced at the Faculty of Arts of Paris sometime between late 1291 and 1296 and is the earliest surviving [...]

By |2022-12-12T11:50:33+00:00December 12th, 2022|News|0 Comments

“Compreender, descrever, Medir o mundo. Cosmoteoria de António Castel-Branco. Um curso lecionado na Universidade de Évora (1588)”

More information and purchase The work Cosmotheoria (Cosmotheory) is an introductory course on geography and the use of some mathematical instruments (astrolabe, celestial globe, altimetric scale among others). It reflects university lectures given by the Jesuit António de Castel-Branco in Evora [...]

By |2022-12-10T22:51:50+00:00December 10th, 2022|News|0 Comments

“Reformation in the Low Countries, 1500-1620”, by Christine Kooi

This accessible general history of the Reformation in the Netherlands traces the key developments in the process of reformation – both Protestant and Catholic – across the whole of the Low Countries during the sixteenth century. Synthesizing fifty years' worth [...]

By |2022-12-10T09:38:48+00:00December 9th, 2022|News|0 Comments

“Atoms, Corpuscles and Minima in the Renaissance”, ed. by Christoph Lüthy and Elena Nicoli

More information and purchase The Renaissance witnessed an upsurge in explanations of natural events in terms of invisibly small particles – atoms, corpuscles, minima, monads and particles. The reasons for this development are as varied as are the entities that [...]

By |2022-12-09T18:36:21+00:00December 9th, 2022|News|0 Comments

“Descartes in the Classroom. Teaching Cartesian Philosophy in the Early Modern Age”, ed. by Davide Cellamare and Mattia Mantovani

More information and purchase The volume offers the first large-scale study of the teaching of Descartes’s philosophy in the early modern age. Its twenty chapters explore the clash between Descartes’s “new” philosophy and the established pedagogical practices and institutional concerns, [...]

By |2022-12-09T18:36:51+00:00December 9th, 2022|News|0 Comments

“Projections of Spanish Jesuit Scholasticism on British Thought”, ed. by Leopoldo J. Prieto López and José Luis Cendejas Bueno

More information and purchase Spanish Jesuits such as Francisco Suárez (1548-1617), José de Acosta (1540-1600), Pedro de Ribadeneira (1526-1611) and Juan de Mariana (1536-1624) had a powerful impact on English thinkers of the magnitude of John Locke (1632-1704), Francis Bacon [...]

By |2022-12-09T18:37:17+00:00December 9th, 2022|News|0 Comments

“Libertad, ley y poder. Bien común y Derechos humanos en la obra de Francisco Suárez”, by Isabel Lafuente

More information and purchase This book deals with the issues, the problems and the solutions that Suárez's iusnaturalistic philosophy poses and offers to human beings and society as regards the notions of freedom, law and power. As Suárez's principle and [...]

By |2022-12-09T17:46:37+00:00December 9th, 2022|News|0 Comments

“Immanent Transcendence Francisco Suárez’s Doctrine of Being”, by V. Salas

More information and purchase Long considered one of late scholasticism’s most important thinkers, Francisco Suárez has, paradoxically enough, often been treated only in relation to other medieval authors or as a transitional figure in the shift from medieval to early [...]

By |2022-12-10T09:40:26+00:00November 10th, 2022|News|0 Comments
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