Notes on Contributors
Harald Berger is an Associate Professor at the University of Graz (Austria), Department of Philosophy. He teaches classic, medieval, and early modern philosophy. He specializes in late medieval philosophy, including manuscript studies and history of universities. Among his publications are the volumes: Albert von Sachsen, Logik. Lateinisch—Deutsch (Hamburg, 2010) and Heinrich Totting von Oyta, Schriften zur Ars vetus (Munich 2015) and a contribution on ‘Albert of Saxony on Parts and Wholes,’ in F. Amerini, I. Binini, M. Mugnai (eds.), Mereology in Medieval Logic and Metaphysics (Pisa 2019).
Joël Biard is Professor Emeritus at the University of Tours (France), Centre d’ Études Supérieures de la Renaissance. His research fields are the late medieval philosophy of language, theories of mind and knowledge, and natural philosophy. Focussing on John Buridan and Blasius of Parma he has published, among severals papers, Science et nature. La théorie buridanienne du savoir, (Paris 2012), Les Questions sur l’ âme de Jean Buridan (Paris 2019) and, with Aurélien Robert, the collective volume La philosophie de Blaise de Parme. Physique, psychologie, éthique (Florence 2019). He is currently preparing a monograph about Blasius of Parma’s theory of matter.
Daniel A. Di Liscia is Lecturer at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Germany), at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy. He carried out several research projects on the Calculators’ tradition, especially on the geometrisation of natural philosophy and metaphysics. His most recent publications are ‘Biagio Pelacani da Parma’s Geometrisation of Latitudes and the Problems of the Mean Degree Theorem’ (in: J. Biard and A. Robert [eds.], La philosophie de Blaise de Parme. Physique, psychologie, éthique [Florence 2019]) and Eine Wiener Expositio zum Tractatus de latitudinibus formarum. Edition mit Einführung und Kommentar (Vienna, 2022). He is currently editing Jacques Legrand’s Compendium utriusque philosophie.
Elżbieta Jung is a historian of science, medieval philosophy and theology focusing on the mathematical physics of the Oxford Calculators. Additionally, she works on the history of late medieval universities and the history of feminism. She is Chair of the Department of the History of Philosophy at the University of Łódź (Poland) and is Director of the Center for Philosophy of Nature. She is currently working on critical editions of Richard Kilvington’s Quaestiones super Physicam, Quaestiones super De generatione et corruptione (with Robert Podkoński), and Quaestiones super libros Sententiarum (with Monika Michałowska). Her most recent publication (with R. Podkoński) is Towards the Modern Theory of Motion. Oxford Calculators and the New Interpretation of Aristotle (Łódź 2020).
Edit Anna Lukács works at the Austrian Academy of Sciences at Vienna (Austria). She has been a Visiting Fellow at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies in Toronto (Canada) in 2018–2019. Her research focuses on the philosophy and theology of the Oxford Calculators, and their influence at the early University of Vienna. She has published numerous papers on Thomas Bradwardine and a Latin-German edition of selected parts from Thomas Bradwardine’s De causa Dei (Göttingen 2013). Her latest book, Dieu est une sphère (Aix-en-Provence 2019) explores the theological uses of a geometric metaphor in the French Middle Ages.
Richard J. Oosterhoff teaches early modern history at the University of Edinburgh (Scotland), with specialisms in intellectual history and history of science. Previously he held posts at the University of Cambridge, and fellowships at Houghton Library, the Huntington Library, and the Warburg Institute. His publications include Making Mathematical Culture: University and Print in the Circle of Lefèvre d’ Étaples (Oxford 2018) and Logodaedalus: Word Histories of Ingenuity in Early Modern Europe, co-authored with Alexander Marr, Raphaële Garrod, and José Ramón Marcaida (Pittsburgh 2018).
Robert Podkoński is a historian of natural philosophy at the Department of the History of Philosophy, University of Łódź (Poland). His research focuses on the Oxford Calculators’ philosophical ideas and their impact on the development of early modern science. He has recently published editions of three treatises from Richard Swineshead’s Liber calculationum: De potentia rei, De luminosis, and De motu locali, as well as an edition of two short treatises on motion ascribed to Richard Swineshead. He is currently preparing a critical edition of Richard Kilvington’s commentary on Aristotle’s De generatione et corruptione (with Elżbieta Jung).
Stephen Read is Professor Emeritus of History and Philosophy of Logic at the University of St. Andrews (Scotland). He is the author of Relevant Logic (Oxford 1988) and Thinking about Logic (Oxford 1995), editor of Sophisms in Medieval Logic and Grammar (Dordrecht 1993), editor and translator of Thomas Bradwardine: Insolubilia (Leuven 2010), translator of John Buridan: Treatise on Consequences (New York 2015), and joint editor (with Catarina Dutilh Novaes) of The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Logic (Cambridge 2016). In addition, he is the author of many articles on contemporary and medieval philosophy of logic and language. He led the Leverhulme-funded project ‘Theories of Paradox in Fourteenth-Century Logic: Edition and Translation of Key Texts’ (2017–2021).
Sabine Rommevaux-Tani is researcher at the CNRS in France and current director of the laboratory SPHERE. Focusing on Radulphus Brito, Thomas Bradwardine, Nicole Oresme, Blasius of Parma, and Christopher Clavius, she has published extensively on the history of mathematics and natural philosophy in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. She is the author of Les nouvelles théories des rapports mathématiques du XIVe au XVIe siècle (Paris 2014). She has recently published a critical edition of the anonymous treatise De sex inconvenientibus (Paris 2021).
Fabio Seller is Research Fellow in the History of Medieval Philosophy at the University of Naples Federico ii (Italy). He has widely published on late medieval and Renaissance philosophy and science, specifically on the history of astronomy and astrology. Among his publications are Scientia astrorum. La fondazione espistemologica dell’astrologia in Pietro d’Abano (Naples 2009), La città, il sole, le stelle. Temi astrologici e astronomici in Tommaso Campanella (Naples 2015), and Apocalittica e tempo della fine in Tommaso Campanella (Milan 2020).
Edith D. Sylla is Professor Emerita at North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina, USA). She works on the history of mathematics, physics, and their interrelations from the late Middle Ages to the early eighteenth century. She published extensively on the different aspects related to the Calculators. Her most recent paper is ‘Infinity and Continuity: Thomas Bradwardine and His Contemporaries,’ in S. Shapiro and G. Hellman (eds.), The History of Continua: Philosophical and Mathematical Perspectives (Oxford 2021).
Aníbal Szapiro is Assistant Professor of History of Science at the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina). After completing his Ph.D. in philosophy on the history of early modern Astronomy (Changes in the Astronomical Concept of Horizon during Modernity, 2016), his research has focused on the relation between optics and astronomy in late medieval and early modern thought. His contribution to the present volume was produced during his postdoc stay at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Germany) (2018–2019, DAAD Scholarship) on The Calculators’ Tradition and the Geometrisation of Light.
Mark Thakkar is a historian of fourteenth-century scholasticism. He took his D.Phil. in Philosophy at Balliol College, Oxford (2005–2010), and worked as a lexicographer on the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources (2010–2014) before embarking on an edition of John Wyclif’s logical works, for which he held a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at the University of St. Andrews (2014–2018). He is currently an Honorary Research Fellow at St. Andrews and a Research Associate at the IRHT in Paris.
Cecilia Trifogli is Professor of Medieval Philosophy at the University of Oxford (UK), and Chairperson of the British Academy committee responsible for the series Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi. She has published extensively on the tradition of Aristotle’s natural philosophy in the Middle Ages. She is the author of a book on the early English tradition of commentaries on the Physics (Oxford Physics in the Thirteenth Century, 2000). She also works on critical editions of medieval philosophical texts. She has recently edited (with Silvia Donati and Jennifer Ashworth) the Quaestiones on the Physics by the Oxford master Geoffrey of Aspall (Oxford 2017).