Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

P.Adamson他著　アヴィセンナの後継者たち－12～13世紀イスラーム東方世界における哲学
Adamson, Peter / Benevich, Fedor / Klinger, Dustin, The Heirs of Avicenna: Philosophy in the Islamic East, 12-13th Centuries: Logic and Epistemology. (Islamicate Intellectual History 12/2) 692 pp. 2025:1 (Brill, NE) <735-12>
ISBN 978-90-04-50400-4 hard ¥35,310.- (税込) EUR 150.00

This is the second in a series of sourcebooks charting the reception of Avicenna (Ibn Sina, d.1037) in the Islamic East (from Syria to central Asia) in the 12th-13th centuries CE. Moving on from the metaphysical and theological concerns covered in the first book, this volume looks at issues in logic and epistemology in the reception of Avicenna's thought. Across dozens of authors and hundreds of passages, the translated material covers a wide range of topics including the subject matter of logic, the nature of knowledge and self-knowledge, questions in philosophy of language and syllogistic theory, and paradoxes.

Edelheit, Amos (ed.), Renaissance Scholasticisms: Fighting Back. (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions) 390 pp. 2024:11 (Brill, NE) <735-13>
ISBN 978-90-04-43963-4 hard ¥27,071.- (税込) EUR 115.00

This volume sheds new light on the intellectual history of the Renaissance by focusing on the neglected paradigm of scholasticism. Its chapters aim to recast our present understanding of familiar features of Renaissance thought by showing that many of the assumed innovations of the period took place as a result of a dialogue between plural traditions of scholasticism and the emerging methods of humanism. Written by a team of internationally recognized experts, the volume seeks to further enfranchise scholasticism as an integral aspect of Renaissance intellectual history and explain its value to the study of humanism and early modern philosophy.

Lefebvre, David (ed.), The Science of Life in Aristotle and the Early Peripatos. (Philosophia Antiqua 171) 400 pp. 2024:12 (Brill, NE) <735-14>
ISBN 978-90-04-71168-6 hard ¥51,552.- (税込) EUR 219.00

This volume of fourteen essays explores the biology of Aristotle and the Early Peripatos (Theophrastus and the Physical Problems) in its various dimensions-how the study of the soul contributes to the foundation of the science of perishable life, what is the program of this science and its main explanatory strategies, whether it is the explanation of natural generation or the relationship of the animal to its surroundings. But the authors also explore what might be, for Aristotle, the unity of life, not only that of animals and plants, but also that of celestial bodies and the Prime Mover.

Majcherek, Kamil, Medieval Metaphysics of Artefacts, 1250-1500. (Investigating Medieval Philosophy 24) 608 pp. 2025:2 (Brill, NE) <735-15>
ISBN 978-90-04-72153-1 hard ¥37,664.- (税込) EUR 160.00

Are artefacts, that is, human-made objects, distinct from the natural things that they are made out of? For example, is a chair a thing distinct from the pieces of wood used in making it? This question is intensely debated in contemporary metaphysics, but it is little known that there was an equally heated and sophisticated debate concerning this issue in the late Middle Ages. This book provides the first comprehensive reconstruction, analysis, and evaluation of this discussion, looking at both the most famous figures such as William of Ockham as well as dozens of previously unstudied texts available in manuscript form only.

Michalowska, Monika / Dunne, Michael W., Richard FitzRalph on the Will and Instantaneous Volition: A Critical Edition of Book I, Question 10 from Richard FitzRalph's Lectura in Sententias. (Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters 137) 304 pp. 2025:3 (Brill, NE) <735-16>
ISBN 978-90-04-52803-1 hard ¥27,071.- (税込) EUR 115.00

The volume offers a critical edition of a text by Richard FitzRalph, one of the most original 14th-century Oxonian thinkers. FitzRalph's philosophical and theological ideas were enthusiastically adopted or fiercely challenged, consolidating his recognition at the universities of Oxford, Paris, and Italy. For all this, his work remains relatively little-known today, an obscurity this book redresses by making a question on the will from FitzRalph's Lectura in Sententias available to a large readership. Besides, FitzRalph's strongly voluntaristic position and analytical techniques derived from the natural sciences and logic are shown to place him close to the Oxford Calculators.

Oosthout, Arthur, Proclus on Whole and Part: A Reappraisal of Mereology in Neoplatonic Metaphysics. (Philosophia Antiqua 172) 258 pp. 2025:3 (Brill, NE) <735-17>
ISBN 978-90-04-72175-3 hard ¥31,308.- (税込) EUR 133.00

No late ancient philosopher has written more extensively on part-whole relations than the Neoplatonic commentator Proclus. In Proclus on Whole and Part, Arthur Oosthout unfolds, for the first time, Proclus' detailed and systematic analysis of (Neo-)Platonic mereology in full. Oosthout weaves together a great number of previously disconnected scholarly inquiries into Proclus, while adding many critical notes and new insights of his own. He bases this new synthesis on a detailed theoretical framework built not only on the metaphysical theories of Plato and Aristotle, but also on the arguments of prominent scholars of modern mereology.

Panti, Cecilia / Piccolino, Marco (eds.), Dante's Visions: Crossing Sights on Natural Philosophy, Theory of Vision, and Medicine in the Divine Comedy and Beyond. (Global Perspectives on the History of Natural Philosophy) 240 pp. 2024:12 (Routledge, UK) <735-18>
ISBN 978-1-03-253556-2 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

Dante's Visions: Crossing Sights on Natural Philosophy, Theory of Vision, and Medicine in the Divine Comedy and Beyond offers a fascinating insight into Dante's engagement with the science of his time, particularly with visual perception and neurological disorders. The connection between soul and body and between human beings and their natural environment were relevant fields of interest in the medieval world. In Dante's Divine Comedy, as well as in his Vita Nuova and Convivio, these connections are enhanced to the fullest, expressing feelings and sensations, pain and ecstasy, physical and spiritual passions under exceptional psychological and environmental stimuli.Based on the research of a multidisciplinary group of scholars - including experts in Dante, the culture and history of medieval literature and philosophy, historians of science, neuroscientists, and specialists in vision and visual illusions - this book explores the poet's psychophysical descriptions of sense perception, the theory of vision, optical illusions and deceptions of sight, neurological phenomena, and the anatomy and physiology of the human nervous system. It highlights the Aristotelian sources of his scientific culture and the influence of the Arabic sciences on their dissemination in the Western world.In addition to illustrating the cultural background of a poetic genius, with specific reference to the rich scientific reflections in Italy at Dante's time, the book brings out the many opportunities for future research at the intersection of science and literature in the past.

Peramas, Josep Manuel, A Treatise on the Guarani System of Government in Comparison with Plato's Republic (1793). Tr. & ed.by M. Brumbaugh. (Texts of the Early Americas) 244 pp. 2025:1 (Dumbarton Oaks, US) <735-19>
ISBN 978-0-88402-519-1 hard ¥9,702.- (税込) US$ 45.00

Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, 900 Conclusions. (The I Tatti Renaissance Library) 688 pp. 2025:3 (Harvard U. Pr., US) <735-20>
ISBN 978-0-674-29891-0 hard ¥7,546.- (税込) US$ 35.00

A groundbreaking edition of controversial theses proposed by the most famous philosopher of the Italian Renaissance.Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494), the most famous philosopher of the Italian Renaissance, had ambitions in line with his talents, especially in philosophical theology. His boldest venture urged Christians to save their souls with Jewish mysticism-Kabbalah-while also offering to debate anyone in Italy about his project. In 1486, he announced plans for a disputation in Rome on 900 theses, but Pope Innocent VIII quashed the event with an indictment for crimes against Christian orthodoxy.Pico's theses cited well-known scholastic authorities: Muslims like Ibn Rushd, Jews like Maimonides, and Christians like John Duns Scotus and Thomas Aquinas. But as Brian Copenhaver demonstrates in Nine Hundred Conclusions, many of Pico's scholastic sources were filtered through a less renowned Thomist theologian named Jean Cabrol (Capreolus). Pico also sought to enrich Christian theology with newly available authorities from the Platonic and Pythagorean traditions as well as theosophical texts associated with ancient Orphism and Hermetism. Supreme among his authorities were theses taken from medieval Jewish Kabbalah, which Pico regarded as an angelic revelation and tried to appropriate for Christianity. The present volume is a ground-breaking contribution, containing a new critical edition of the Latin text along with a new translation into contemporary English, a detailed introduction, and a commentary discussing each of the 900 theses individually.

Stamer, Gerhard, Das Sein zurueckgewinnen: Was das Studium der Meta-Physik von Aristoteles erbringt. 144 S. 2025:1 (Koenigshausen & Neumann, GW) <735-21>
ISBN 978-3-8260-8988-6 paper ¥7,014.- (税込) EUR 29.80

Wann ist ein antikes Werk aktuell? Wenn es die vergessenen Grundlagen in Erinnerung bringt. Dafuer ist die Meta-Physik von Aristoteles das beste Beispiel. Sie klaert, dass Erkenntnis eine der Dinge an sich ist, selbst wenn der Mensch an die Erkenntisbedingungen gebunden ist, mit denen er Erkenntnis betreibt. Sie zeigt auf, dass jede Wissenschaft ein geistiges Unternehmen ist, indem sie nicht nur eine Denktaetigkeit ist, sondern Strukturen in der Welt aufweist, die prinzipiell geistig sind, so dass Geist in der Natur angenommen werden muss. Aristoteles’ Meta-Physik weist nicht ueber die Welt hinaus. Das unbewegt Bewegende, die Chiffre fuer Gott, ist eine Affirmation des Seins, indem es der hoechste Ausdruck der aporetischen Wirklichkeit ist, von der wir Wissen erlangen koennen. In ihr vereinen sich die Prinzipien der Bewegung und des Unbewegten.

Sun, Zhongyuan, The Mojing: Origins and Development of Mohist Logic. (Modern Chinese Philosophy 25) 250 pp. 2024:9 (Brill, NE) <735-22>
ISBN 978-90-04-69323-4 hard ¥35,074.- (税込) EUR 149.00

This book is the first and only English language translation of Sun Zhongyuan's research on Mohist logic. Sun investigates the historical contributions made to the research of logic in China, its modern value, its significance to the world, and how the form of logic developed in China is united with those from the rest of the world, focusing on Mohist (mojia ??) logic in particular as its core concern. Sun's work represents a high level of academic merit in the field of logic in China, embodying traditional Chinese culture, reflecting the frontiers of Chinese academia, effectively advocating for Chinese academia to engage with the rest of the world, deepening the academic conversation between China and the rest of the world, furthering the world's understanding of Chinese thought, and strengthening its influence and discursive power.