Book contents
- Interpreting Buridan
- Interpreting Buridan
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The Philosopher as Arts Master
- 2 Principles in Buridan’s Logic of Consequences
- 3 Buridan on Paradox
- 4 Modality and Temporality in Buridan’s Logic
- 5 A Paradigm Change within Medieval Philosophy
- 6 Buridan’s Internalism
- 7 John Buridan on the Ontological Status of Artifacts
- 8 John Buridan on Final Causality
- 9 Female Physiology in John Buridan’s Quaestiones de secretis mulierum
- 10 Buridan on the Value of Emotions
- 11 Buridan on Happiness and the Good Life
- References
- Index
9 - Female Physiology in John Buridan’s Quaestiones de secretis mulierum
Interpreting Buridan’s Biology
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 February 2024
- Interpreting Buridan
- Interpreting Buridan
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The Philosopher as Arts Master
- 2 Principles in Buridan’s Logic of Consequences
- 3 Buridan on Paradox
- 4 Modality and Temporality in Buridan’s Logic
- 5 A Paradigm Change within Medieval Philosophy
- 6 Buridan’s Internalism
- 7 John Buridan on the Ontological Status of Artifacts
- 8 John Buridan on Final Causality
- 9 Female Physiology in John Buridan’s Quaestiones de secretis mulierum
- 10 Buridan on the Value of Emotions
- 11 Buridan on Happiness and the Good Life
- References
- Index
Summary
The Quaestiones de secretis mulierum of MS Erfurt-Gotha, Universitäts- und Forschungsbibliothek, Dep. Erf., CA 4º 299, ascribed to John Buridan and recently edited for the first time, are an incomplete set of questions on Pseudo-Albert the Great’s De secretis mulierum. The text contains an extensive treatment of the topic of human generation, with a particular focus on male and female roles in reproduction. This essay retraces Buridan’s view on the generative aspects of female physiology as it emerges in his commentary on Pseudo-Albert’s text. By analyzing this unexplored feature of Buridan’s thought, the essay aims to contribute to the growing research on the biological aspects of Buridan’s natural philosophy.
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- Interpreting BuridanCritical Essays, pp. 157 - 177Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024