Matter as Epistemic Object: Intellection, Manipulation, and Particularisation in the 13th Century

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The paper explores the richness of scientific and philosophical approaches to matter in the thirteenth century. The twelfth-century Arabic- and Greek-into-Latin translation movements provided, in a relatively short time, Latinate audience with different accounts of matter as epistemic object proper to diverse disciplines—natural philosophy, logic, metaphysics, as well as alchemy, medicine, and astronomy. I will discuss tensions and implications arising from a consideration of such a plurality of meanings and theories of matter and materiality in the thirteenth century.
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HSS888
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Medieval
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Astrology, cosmology,
Institut für Philosophie, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

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