1st Edition

The Philosophy and Science of Roger Bacon Studies in Honour of Jeremiah Hackett

Edited By Nicola Polloni, Yael Kedar Copyright 2021
270 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

270 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

270 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The Philosophy and Science of Roger Bacon offers new insights and research perspectives on one of the most intriguing characters of the Middle Ages, Roger Bacon. At the intersections between science and philosophy, the volume analyses central aspects of Bacon’s reflections on how nature and society can be perfected. The volume dives into the intertwining of Bacon’s philosophical stances on... Read more

Introduction

1. Roger Bacon on Nature

Michela Pereira

2. Roger Bacon on Chance in Natural Generation in the Questiones super octo libros Physicorum Aristotelis

Cecilia Panti

3. Roger Bacon on Substantial Change

Cecilia Trifogli

4. Roger Bacon on the Conceivability of Matter

Nicola Polloni

5. Ens rationis. Über die vielfache Bedeutung des Gedankendingbegriffs

Theo Kobusch

6. Roger Bacons Idee der Einheit der Wissenschaft und des universalen Friedens

Günther Mensching

7. Roger Bacon’s New Founding of the Sciences in the Thirteenth Century

Nikolaus Egel

8. Sound is not Made of Rays: Roger Bacon’s Rejection of Heavenly Music

Yael Kedar

9. Roger Bacon’s Medical Alchemy and the Multiplication of Species

Meagan S. Allen

10. From Longitudo vitae to Prolungatio vitae: Peter of Ireland and Roger Bacon on Life and Death

Michael W. Dunne

11. Bacon/Olivi : un état des lieux

Dominique Demange

12. The Soul in Roger Bacon and John Pecham

Caleb Colley

13. Plato’s Unholy Trinity: The life, death and afterlife of the anima mundi in the Middle Ages

Jack P. Cunningham

Biography

Nicola Polloni is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy of KU Leuven, Belgium. He has worked at the Universities of Berlin (HU Berlin), Durham, and Pavia.

Yael Kedar is Senior Faculty Member of Multi-Disciplinary Studies at Tel Hai College, and a research fellow at the University of Haifa. She was previously Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgetown University and Visiting Scholar at Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen.