Scholasticism and Thomism

After the Philosophy of Mind : Replacing Scholasticism with Science

We provide a taxonomy of the two most important debates in the philosophy of the cognitive and neural sciences. The first debate is over methodological individualism: is the object of the cognitive and neural sciences the brain, the whole animal, or the animal--environment system? The second is over explanatory style: should explanation in cognitive and neural science be reductionist-mechanisti...

Quantum scholasticism: On quantum contexts, counterfactuals, and the absurdities of quantum omniscience

Unlike classical information, quantum knowledge is restricted to the outcome of measurements of maximal observables corresponding to single contexts.

Radical mathematical Thomism: beings of reason and divine decrees in Torricelli’s philosophy of mathematics

Evangelista Torricelli (1608–1647) is perhaps best known for being the most gifted of Galileo’s pupils, and for his works based on indivisibles, especially his stunning cubature of an infinite hyperboloid. Scattered among Torricelli’s writings, we find numerous traces of the philosophy of mathematics underlying his mathematical practice. Though virtually neglected by historians and philosophers...

The Educational Roots of Reformed Scholasticism: Dialectic and Scriptural Exegesis in the Sixteenth Century

The Renaissance notion of woman: A study in the fortunes of scholasticism and medical science in European intellectual life

Reviews protections', where Mme Loux is especially illuminating on the traditional "sagesses du corps" of peasant society-though, as she emphasizes, the crucial divide in France was not so much between "popular" and "scientific" medicine, but between the "underground" and the "official". That is to say, elite medical practice was characterized more by its formal sanctions, than by any unique tr...