In the first half of the fourteenth century, a great polemic surrounding atomistic conceptions arose at the University of Oxford and the University of Paris. This paper will focus on the use of two tools of investigation on atomism, to wit, "thought experiments" and the "theory of supposition", which reveal the prominence of the a priori in late medieval debates on atomism. The paper intends to show the heuristic role of those two tools in the investigation of unobservable phenomena. The imaginative scenarios express the relation between natural philosophy, mathematics and logic, illustrating the medieval conception of science.En la primera mitad del siglo xiv, se ha levantado en la Universidad de Oxford y en la Universidad de París una gra...
It is widely accepted that the aim of experimental science is to describe natural phenomena by mathe...
Until early in this century it had been customary (and in certain writings it still is) for historie...
This paper argues that early modern experimental philosophy emerged as the dominant member of a pair...
In the first half of the fourteenth century, a great polemic surrounding atomistic conceptions arose...
Maison Française d’Oxford Service Science et Technologie de l’Ambassade de France à Londres GDR 2522...
In the first two decades of the seventeenth century, atomism was not a widely held doctrine amongst ...
The main characteristic of modern science is that its new theories contain the old ones as their par...
International audienceNicole Oresme, in his Questions on Physics, bears witness to a tendency which ...
Before 1650 philosophy teachers in France were Thomist Aristotelians who paid little attention to at...
Supposition theory is one of the most important later medieval semantic theories (in the Latin tradi...
Séminaire de Leen Spruit (Radboud Universiteit) From 1688 to 1697, Naples, capital of the Spanish ki...
O Grupo de Pesquisa “Física e Humanidades”, radicado no Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas (CBPF...
The question of atomism of Galileo is here reconsidered. A new understanding of his atomism sheds li...
Paradoxes seized the attention of logicians in the middle ages, and were used both as tests for the ...
Emptiness and experiment are the two main notions of the famous debate about the “invention” of the ...
It is widely accepted that the aim of experimental science is to describe natural phenomena by mathe...
Until early in this century it had been customary (and in certain writings it still is) for historie...
This paper argues that early modern experimental philosophy emerged as the dominant member of a pair...
In the first half of the fourteenth century, a great polemic surrounding atomistic conceptions arose...
Maison Française d’Oxford Service Science et Technologie de l’Ambassade de France à Londres GDR 2522...
In the first two decades of the seventeenth century, atomism was not a widely held doctrine amongst ...
The main characteristic of modern science is that its new theories contain the old ones as their par...
International audienceNicole Oresme, in his Questions on Physics, bears witness to a tendency which ...
Before 1650 philosophy teachers in France were Thomist Aristotelians who paid little attention to at...
Supposition theory is one of the most important later medieval semantic theories (in the Latin tradi...
Séminaire de Leen Spruit (Radboud Universiteit) From 1688 to 1697, Naples, capital of the Spanish ki...
O Grupo de Pesquisa “Física e Humanidades”, radicado no Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas (CBPF...
The question of atomism of Galileo is here reconsidered. A new understanding of his atomism sheds li...
Paradoxes seized the attention of logicians in the middle ages, and were used both as tests for the ...
Emptiness and experiment are the two main notions of the famous debate about the “invention” of the ...
It is widely accepted that the aim of experimental science is to describe natural phenomena by mathe...
Until early in this century it had been customary (and in certain writings it still is) for historie...
This paper argues that early modern experimental philosophy emerged as the dominant member of a pair...