| Center |
| Faculty of Philosophy and Educational Sciences |
| Departament |
| Philosophy |
| Lecturers in charge |
| G2057 - FERNANDO SOLER ALVAREZ |
| Met. Docent |
| Lectures, directed reading and tutorials |
| Met. Avaluació |
| Final examination and project work |
| Bibliografia |
| Cassirer, E.: El Problema del Conocimiento, vol. I, Fondo de Cultura Económica. Crombie, A.C.: Historia de la Ciencia, de San Agustín a Galileo. 2 vols. Alianza. Garín, E.: Medioevo y Renacimiento. Taurus. Granada, M.A.: Cosmología, Religión y Política en el Renacimiento. Anthropos. Mínguez, C.: De Ockham a Newton, la formación de la ciencia moderna. Edicions Pedagógicas. |
| Continguts |
| 1. Factors and features of the Renaissance Period. Historiography. 2. The Crisis of the Middle Ages. Nominalism. New perspectives on nature: the Calculators of Oxford and the Physicists of Paris. 3. Humanism. Old and modern. Humanism and science. 4. On Plato: Nicolas of Cusa. The School of Florence. 5. On Aristotle: Piero Pomponazzi. Influences on Nature. 6. Reform and Counter-reform. The free interpretation of the Bible. Repercussions on education and knowledge. 7. Science and method in the origins of the Renaissance. Influences of method on culture. The experimental method. 8. Images of the Cosmos. Vives: "Somnium Scipionis". Copernicus and heliographs. Geographical discoveries. 9. Utopia. Tomas Moro, Campanella. 10. The Philosophy of Nature. Telesio, Polishes, Campanella. 11. Diverse manifestations of scepticism. Montaigne. 12. Social thought in the Renaissance period. |
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