The project’s main areas of research
The project aims to investigate the tradition of the Oxford Calculators and the influence hat their works had on early-modern logic and natural philosophy in Europe. The project’s focus are the modal theories …
Why Thought Experiments?
At the beginning of the 2020 pandemic, perhaps as a result of the academic solitude we all felt at the time, I started with my two colleagues Daniele Molinari and …
A conference on the Calculators and their ethical theories
My paper “Thinking and believing the impossible. Medieval reflections on opinabiles and inopinabiles impossibilities” will be presented at the international online conference “The Oxford Calculators and their milieu on Ethics” …
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Beyond Impossible. A conference on the logic of impossibility
The Calculatores Project is very pleased to invite you to the workshop: “Beyond Impossible. Logical and Philosophical Perspectives”, dedicated to the notion of impossibility in the history of logic and …
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Our Project at the European Researcher Night 2021!
On Friday, September 24, the Calculators Project will participate to the European Research Night with an activity dedicated to the topic of Imagination and Thought Experiments in the history of …
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“reshaping the boundaries of the possible in 14th-century discussions on modalities”. april 9th at melo seminar
“Reshaping the boundaries of the possible in the 14th discussion on modalities” April 9th at MELO seminar This spring semester I’ve been invited to participate to the MeLO Seminars series, …
It’s impossible! A series of online seminars on the logic of impossibility
It’s Impossible! A series of online seminars on the logic of impossibility We are very pleased to announce a new series of online seminars related to Calculators Project that will …
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Timothy Williamson on “Worlds and meaning”, Jan 25th 2021
Timothy Williamson on “Worlds and Meaning” Jan, 25th 2021 Our series of online seminars dedicated to the logic and epistemology of impossibility will begin with a paper pr by Timothy Williamson …
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“La necessità della natura e la necessità dei filosofi”. Uno sguardo sulle logiche della modalità fra XI e XII secolo
“La necessità della natura e la necessità dei filosofi” Uno sguardo sulle logiche della modalità tra XI e XII sec. During the conference “Pier Damiani – Nuove prospettive sul suo …
17/18 dicembre @UNIPR: “Pier Damiani – Nuove prospettive sul suo pensiero”
“Pier Damiani – Nuove prospettive sul suo pensiero” 17/18 dicembre @UNIPR Giovedì 17 e venerdì 18 dicembre si svolgerà su piattaforma Teams il convegno “Pier Damiani – Nuove prospettive sul suo pensiero”, …
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