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Since antiquity, philosophers have investigated how change works. If a thing moves from one state to another, when exactly does it start to be in its new state, and when does it cease to be in its former one? In the late Middle Ages, the "problem of the instant of change" was subject to considerable debate and gave rise to sophisticated theories; it became popular and controversial again in the second half of the twentieth century. The studies collected here constitute the first attempt at tackling the different aspects of an issue that, until now, have been the object of seminal but isolated forays. They do so in through a historical perspective, offering both the medieval and the contemporary viewpoints.
Contributors are Damiano Costa, Graziana Ciola, William O. Duba, Simo Knuuttila, Greg Littmann, Can Laurens Löwe, Graham Priest, Magali Roques, Niko Strobach, Edith Dudley Sylla, Cecilia Trifogli and Gustavo Fernández Walker.
Contents
Introduction
Frédéric Goubier and Magali Roques
Indivisible Temporal Boundaries from Aristophanes until Today
Niko Strobach
Change and Contradiction in Henry of Ghent
Simo Knuuttila
The Blessed Virgin and the Two Time-Series: Hervaeus Natalis and Durand of St. Pourçain on Limit Decision
Can Laurens Löwe
Quasi-Aristotelians and Proto-Scotists
William O. Duba
Walter Burley on the Incipit and Desinit of an Instant of Time
Cecilia Trifogli
Mathematics and Physics of First and Last Instants: Walter Burley and William of Ockham
Edith Dudley Sylla
William of Ockham on the Instant of Change
Magali Roques
Nicholas of Autrecourt's Quaestio de intensione visionis Revisited: The scola Oxoniensis and Parisian Masters on Limit Decision Problems
Gustavo Fernández Walker
Marsilius of Inghen on incipit and desinit in Consequentiae II, Chapters 4-5
With an Edition of the Text
Graziana Ciola
The Limit Decision Problem and Four-Dimensionalism
Damiano Costa
Contradiction and the Instant of Change Revisited
Graham Priest
Contradictory Change
Greg Littmann
Index
