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The Medieval Heritage in Early Modern Metaphysics and Modal Theory, 1400–1700

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  1. Russell L. Friedman

    1. University of Copenhagen, Denmark

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  2. Lauge O. Nielsen

    1. University of Copenhagen, Denmark

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Part of the book series: The New Synthese Historical Library (SYNL, volume 53)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Introduction

    • Russell L. Friedman, Lauge O. Nielsen
    Pages 1-7

  3. Via Antiqua and Via Moderna in the Fifteenth Century: Doctrinal, Institutional, and Church Political Factors in the Wegestreit

    • Maarten J. F. M. Hoenen
    Pages 9-36

  4. Ockham and Locke on Mental Language

    • Claude Panaccio
    Pages 37-51

  5. Metaphysics as a Discipline: From the “Transcendental Philosophy of the Ancients” to Kant’s Notion of Transcendental Philosophy

    • Ludger Honnefelder
    Pages 53-74

  6. God as First Principle and Metaphysics as a Science

    • Joël Biard
    Pages 75-97

  7. Gabriel Biel and Later-Medieval Trinitarian Theology

    • Russell L. Friedman
    Pages 99-120

  8. The Question of the Validity of Logic in Late Medieval Thought

    • Simo Knuuttila
    Pages 121-142

  9. Uses of Philosophy in Reformation Thought: Melanchthon, Schegk, and Crellius

    • Sachiko Kusukawa
    Pages 143-163

  10. Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom: Auriol, Pomponazzi, and Luther on “Scholastic Subtleties”

    • Chris Schabel
    Pages 165-189

  11. The Ontological Source of Logical Possibility in Catholic Second Scholasticism

    • Jeffrey Coombs
    Pages 191-229

  12. The Renaissance of Statistical Modalities in Early Modern Scholasticism

    • Sven K. Knebel
    Pages 231-251

  13. Modal Logic in Germany at the Beginning of the Seventeenth Century: Christoph Scheibler’s Opus Logicum

    • Gino Roncaglia
    Pages 253-307

  14. Leibniz on Compossibility: Some Scholastic Sources

    • Fabrizio Mondadori
    Pages 309-338

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 339-349
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About this book

On the most basic level, the articles brought together in the present volume aim to contribute to the charting of the (often subtle) links between the medieval and early modern periods in the fields of metaphysics, philosophical theology, and modal theory. In selecting this line of inquiry the volume is consciously intended to offer support for the stance that in the higher or speculative sciences no sharp divide exists between the later Middle Ages, on the one hand, and the Renaissance and early modern period, on the other. In adopting such an approach, one emphasizing historical continuity instead of discontinuity, the volume can be seen as challenging at least two related sets of convictions concerning the intellectual life of the period 1400-1700. First, prominent Renaissance and early modem thinkers portrayed their own intellectual projects and accomplishments as radical breaks with the scholasticism characteristic of the Middle Ages and also dominant in their own time; the volume to no small extent takes as its point of departure a reluctance - or, at least, a hesitation - to accept these bold claims. Second, a large part of nineteenth- and twentieth-century historiography has taken the Renaissance and early modern claims of fundamental innovation at face-value; in emphasizing the continuity that exists between the thought of the medieval and of the early modern periods, the volume is part of an attempt to offer a more balanced view of the intellectual production of the later period.

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"(...) the book as a whole, by presenting the recent work of leading scholars in this field, provides a good starting point for further researches in the field of late medieval and early modern philosophy."

Jean-Pascal Anfray, University of Paris IV-Sorbonne in the Journal of the History of Philosophy 43:2, April 2005

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Copenhagen, Denmark

    Russell L. Friedman, Lauge O. Nielsen

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Medieval Heritage in Early Modern Metaphysics and Modal Theory, 1400–1700

  • Editors: Russell L. Friedman, Lauge O. Nielsen

  • Series Title: The New Synthese Historical Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0179-2

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2003

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-1631-8Published: 31 October 2003

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6427-1Published: 15 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-0179-2Published: 17 April 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1879-8578

  • Series E-ISSN: 2352-2585

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 349

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Philosophy, general, Cultural Studies, History, general, Medieval Philosophy, Metaphysics, Logic

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