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I have always been impressed by the work of Marsilius Ficino (1433 - 1499), but was not sure how to tackle him in a short blog post. Whet...

[I am on a brief vacation, so here is a post from the past. This post first appeared 25 August 2012.] Speaking of æther ...* In Greek my...

Realism [ link ] At the foundation of philosophy is a question: what defines reality? There are several questions that are connected to ...

Statue commemorating Averroes in C órdoba Averroes (1126-1198) was born in Córdoba into a family of distinguished jurists and scholars a...

Daily Medieval has frequently mentioned the importance of Arabic texts in the transmission of knowledge to Western Europe. Arabic, however...

William of Conches (1085-1154), as mentioned yesterday , wrote on Plato's Timaeus . The Timaeus was a popular work or analysis because,...

In 1620, Sir Francis Bacon published Novum Organum ("The New Organon," by which he meant a new interpretation of nature). In it, ...

As the unknown becomes close and familiar, imagination must seek new realms further away. Modern fiction doesn't write about alien life ...

Plato's Timaeus contains a description of the origin of the universe that was much discussed in the Middle Ages. For Plato (or for Socra...