{"id":527,"date":"2022-02-09T15:59:35","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T15:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mechanizationofphilosophy.org\/?p=527"},"modified":"2022-02-09T15:59:35","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T15:59:35","slug":"publication-quantifying-forms-in-the-late-middle-ages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.tlab.nos.bzh\/?p=527","title":{"rendered":"Publication: Quantifying Forms in the Late Middle Ages"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I\u2019m very happy to announce the publication of this book on the quantification of forms in the Middle Ages. The book tells the story of how philosophers from the 13th century onward were gradually led to conceptualize qualitative properties in quantitative terms. This theme has a long and complex history but the terminus a quo<\/em> of the book is the problem over the \u201cintensity of forms\u201d, as it was intensely debated in the mid-13th century. It is then shown how the interactions between different sciences (natural philosophy, metaohysics, theology, medicine and mathematics) eventually resulted in quantification and measurement techniques that were applied to a broad range of topics, eventually reaching their broadest extension with the controversies over the perfection of species from the mid-14th century onward.

One of the main theses of the book is that the evolution of the problem de intensione formarum<\/em> \u2013 and, thus, the tendency to quantify forms (substantial forms as well as accidental ones) \u2013 cannot be properly understood without taking into account its connections with other \u2018problems of forms\u2019 (the debate over the plurality of forms, the forma fluens<\/em>\/fluxus formae <\/em>problem, the status of forms as universals).
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The book is to a large extent a revised version of my PhD dissertation (in French), which explains that I didn\u2019t have the courage to re-write the whole thing in English. However, the terminus ad quem<\/em> is only 1370 \u2014 I still plan to write chapter 2 of this story, which continued until the early modern period, and I\u2019ll do that in English this time! Informations and table of contents may be found here: https:\/\/brill.com\/view\/title\/61204<\/a>.

Sylvain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m very happy to announce the publication of this book on the quantification of forms in the Middle Ages. The book tells the story of how philosophers from the 13th century onward were gradually led to conceptualize qualitative properties in quantitative terms. This theme has a long and complex history but the terminus a quo […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-informations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.tlab.nos.bzh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.tlab.nos.bzh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.tlab.nos.bzh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.tlab.nos.bzh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.tlab.nos.bzh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.tlab.nos.bzh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.tlab.nos.bzh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.tlab.nos.bzh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.tlab.nos.bzh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}