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Jean Buridan | |
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| Born | c. 1301 |
| Died | c. 1359 – c. 1362 |
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| Era | Medieval philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | |
| Institutions | University of Paris |
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Jean Buridan (French: [byʁidɑ̃]; Latin: Johannes Buridanus; c. 1301 – c. 1359/62) was an influential 14th‑century French philosopher.
Buridan taught in the faculty of arts at the University of Paris for his entire career and focused in particular on logic and on the works of Aristotle. Buridan sowed the seeds of the Copernican Revolution in Europe.[9] He developed the concept of impetus, the first step toward the modern concept of inertia and an important development in the history of medieval science. His name is most familiar through the thought experiment known as Buridan's ass, but the thought experiment does not appear in his extant writings.[10]
- ^ Zupko 2015, §4
- ^ Zupko 2015
- ^ Jaegwon Kim, Ernest Sosa, Gary S. Rosenkrantz (eds.), A Companion to Metaphysics, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, p. 164: "Buridan, Jean."
- ^ Clagett 1959, p. 331.
- ^ "Insolubles," in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
- ^ a b c Clagett 1960, p. 522.
- ^ Zipko 2015, n. 5
- ^ Zupko 2015, §6
- ^ Kuhn, T. The Copernican Revolution, 1958, pp. 119–123.
- ^ Dugas, René. Histoire de la méchanique. 1955. Tr.: Maddox, J.R.. A History of Mechanics. Dover: NY. 1988:48. "[Pierre] Duhem, who has studied Buridan's works in detail, including those concerning free will, says that he has found no trace of the parable of the ass, which apart from his status in the history of mechanics, has made Buridan's name classical."