This volume deals with the philosophy and thought of Roger Bacon. It is an effort to bring Roger Bacon studies up to date. Attention is given to a wide range of topics: Bacon's life and works, Bacon's contribution to the "trivium" (language studies) and the "quadrivium" (scienti…
"The demise of the logical positivism programme. The answers given to these qu- tions have deepened the already existing gap between philosophy and the history and practice of science. While the positivists argued for a spontaneous, steady and continuous growth of scientific kno…
"In his sixth-century work commonly known as the De hebdomadibus, Boethius (ca. 480-524) poses the question of how created things or substances can be good just as they are -- that is, good just by existing -- without being the same as the source of all goodness, God, who is und…
Hacia la mitad del siglo IX, en los albores de la filosofía medieval, nos sorprendemos con la primera y más grande síntesis racional y sistemática elaborada a partir de las diversas fuentes griegas y latinas, llevada a cabo por Juan Escoto Eriúgena en su obra Periphyseon. Pensad…
