The Instant of Change in Medieval Philosophy and Beyond, edited by Frédéric Goubier and Magali Roques, with the collaboration of William Duba and Chris Schabel, Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2018, ISBN (paperback) 978-90-04-36791-3, ISBN (ebook) 978-90-04-36873-6.
The Publisher notifies the readers that the following chapter from this book has been retracted:
‘William of Ockham on the Instant of Change’, pp. 130-151, by Magali Roques, published online on 7 May 2018 and in print on 9 August 2018.
In July 2020, the Publisher was notified of alleged plagiarism in the article ‘William of Ockham on the Instant of Change’, Vivarium 55.1-3 (2017), 130-151, published online on 14 July 2017 and in print on 18 July 2017, and subsequently republished in the above-mentioned book.
The Publisher and the Journal Editors began an investigation into this article, and into other articles published by the same author in the Journal. The Journal Editors confirmed with the author that the article reproduced passages without proper attribution. Further investigation revealed extensive plagiarism.
The retracted book chapter will remain online to maintain the scholarly record, but digitally watermarked on each page as ‘Retracted’.
Brill
26 August 2020