Notes on Contributors
Joël Biard is Emeritus Professor at the University of Tours (France), Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance. Focussing mainly on William Ockham, John Buridan, and Blasius of Parma, he published numerous papers, collective volumes, critical editions and several monographs about late medieval and early modern philosophy language, theories on mind and knowledge, and natural philosophy.
Stephen Clucas is emeritus Professor of Early Modern Intellectual History at Birkbeck, University of London. His publications include an edited collection of essays John Dee: Interdisciplinary Studies in English Renaissance Thought (2006). He was founding co-editor (with Stephen Gaukroger) of the journal Intellectual History Review. He is currently editing (with Timothy Raylor) Thomas Hobbes’ De corpore ad related manuscripts for the Clarendon edition of the works of Thomas Hobbes.
Clelia V. Crialesi (PhD 2019) is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at SPHERE-CNRS (Paris, France). Formerly, she was an FWO Research Fellow at KU Leuven (Belgium) and a Mellon Fellow at PIMS (Canada). Her research focuses on premodern mathematical thought, with publications ranging from Boethian number theory to Euclidean geometry in the late medieval continuum debate—she is currently investigating the link between philosophical conceptions of quantity and algebraic practices in 14th-century Italy.
Vincenzo De Risi is a CNRS research director at the Laboratoire SPHERE in Paris. He works on the history of the epistemology of geometry from antiquity to the Modern Age. He has published on Leibniz, the history of the foundations of geometry, and the history of the metaphysics of space.
Daniel A. Di Liscia works at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy/LMU München and is Visiting Scientist at the Department of Humanities and Arts of Technion (Israel Institute of Technology). He authored Eine Wiener Expositio zum Tractatus de latitudinibus formarum. Edition und Kommentar (Böhlau Verlag, 2022) and together with Edith D. Sylla, edited Quantifying Aristotle. The Impact, Spread and Decline of the Calculatores Tradition (Brill, 2022).
André Goddu is emeritus professor of astronomy and physics at Stonehill College, Easton, Massachusetts. He has published numerous articles and has authored three books on late medieval and early modern astronomy and natural philosophy. His most recent book is a translation into English of Ludwik Antoni Birkenmajer’s Polish work from 1900: Nicolaus Copernicus: Part One, Studies on Copernicus’s Works and Biographical Materials (Nicolaus Copernicus University Press, 2023).
Paolo Mancosu is Willis S. and Marion Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of numerous articles and books on logic and the philosophy of mathematics. He is also the author of four books on the publication history of Doctor Zhivago.
Kamil Majcherek (PhD 2022, University of Toronto) is Research Fellow in History of Philosophy of Trinity College, Cambridge. His main interests lie in late medieval metaphysics and natural philosophy. His monograph on Medieval Metaphysics of Artefacts, 1250–1500 is forthcoming at Brill. He is currently mainly interested in late medieval metaphysics of numbers and of creation.
Aurélien Robert is Senior Research Fellow at the CNRS (SPHERE—University Paris Cité—University Panthéon Sorbonne). He published monographs and papers on medieval philosophy and science, and more particularly on atomism and mathematics, medicine, and the reception of Greek philosophers in the Middle Ages. These publications include Atomism in Late Medieval Philosophy and Theology (Brill, 2009, with Ch. Grellard), Epicure aux enfers. Hérésie, athéisme et hédonisme au Moyen Âge (Paris, 2021), Le monde mathématique. Marco Trevisano et la philosophie dans la Venise du Trecento (Paris, 2023).
Sabine Rommevaux-Tani is directrice de recherche at the CNRS, and currently a member of the Ausonius laboratory at Bordeaux-Montaigne University. She specializes in the history of mathematics and philosophy in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. In particular, she has worked on the use of logic and mathematics, especially the theory of proportions, in the study of nature. She has published several books and critical editions of natural philosophy texts from the Calculatores tradition.
Sylvain Roudaut (PhD, 2017) is Senior Researcher at the CNRS (SPHERE, Paris). He previously held research and teaching positions at Stockholm University and KU Leuven. His research focuses on the interaction between philosophy, science, and mathematics in the Middle Ages. He published a monograph on quantification techniques in the Middle Ages (La mesure de l’être, Brill, 2021) and co-edited several volumes on medieval natural philosophy and metaphysics, including recently The Ontology of Artifacts in the Middle Ages (Philosophies, 2022) and Hylomorphism into Pieces (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024).
Cecilia Trifogli is Professor of Medieval Philosophy at the University of Oxford. She has published extensively on the medieval tradition of Aristotle’s natural philosophy and psychology. She is the author of a book on the early English commentaries on the Physics (Oxford Physics in the Thirteenth Century, Brill 2000). She also works on the critical editions of medieval philosophical texts.