Nicola Polloni
Biographic Data
| ID | 7205856 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicola Polloni |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicola |
| FAMILY NAME | Polloni |
| SIGNATURE | POLLONI N |
| AFFILIATIONS | KU Leuven Hoger Instituut voor Wijsbegeerte Leuven Belgium |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5543-8032 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Roger Bacon’s Arguments from the Infinity of Matter
This study examines Bacon’s critique of the Unity of Matter Thesis (UMT) as articulated in his Opus maius. In this work, he refutes UMT using mathematical reasoning, particularly targeting its implication of material holenmerism. He argues that if prime matter were numerically identical across all things, it would possess infinite potency, which in turn necessitates an infinite essence. The latter would mean equating matter with God, a heretical …
Untangling Robert Grosseteste’s hylomorphism
During the thirteenth century, Aristotelian hylomorphism became the cornerstone of scholastic natural philosophy. However, this theory was fragmented into a plurality of interpretations and reformulations, sparking a rich philosophical debate. This article focuses on Robert Grosseteste (d. 1253), one of the earliest Latin philosophers to directly engage with Aristotle’s natural philosophy. Specifically, it delves into Grosseteste’s perspective on…
Hylomorphism into Pieces
Conceiving Prime Matter in the Middle Ages
In its formlessness and potentiality, prime matter is a problematic entity of medieval metaphysics and its ontological limitations drastically affect human possibility of conceiving it. In this article, I analyse three influential strategies elaborated to justify an epistemic access to prime matter. They are incidental perception, negative abstraction, and analogy. Through a systematic and historical analysis of these procedures, the article show…
Robert Grosseteste on motion, bodies, and light
The article dissects Grosseteste’s theory of the origin of bodily motion discussed in De motu corporali et luce. The first section examines Grosseteste’s discussion of the metaphysical structure of body qua body and the postulation of a kind of original motion (motion qua motion) as a common feature to all bodies. The second section discusses how Grosseteste’s stance on the ontological structure of bodies is connected to his claim that motion qua…
Early Robert Grosseteste on Matter
This article investigates the origin of Robert Grosseteste's theory of matter. Covering Grosseste's early production, from his De artibus liberalibus to De luce and the Commentarius on Aristotle's Physics , his gradual developing of a philosophical theory of matter and prime matter is examined by means of his progressive study of the works of the Aristotelian tradition. Surprisingly, Grosseteste's first notion of matter is bound to alchemy and as…
Gázquez, José Martínez. The Attitude of the Medieval Latin Translators towards the Arabic Sciences
Gundissalinus on the Angelic Creation of the Human Soul
With his original reflection—deeply influenced by many important Arabic thinkers—Gundissalinus wanted to renovate the Latin debate concerning crucial aspects of the philosophical tradition. Among the innovative doctrines he elaborated, one appears to be particularly problematic, for it touches a very delicate point of Christian theology: the divine creation of the human soul, and thus, the most intimate bond connecting the human being and his Cre…
Gundissalinus on Necessary Being
This article examines the textual alteration strategy carried out by Dominicus Gundissalinus in his original works. One of the most striking examples of this approach can be detected in the large quotation of Ibn Sīnā's Metaphysica I, 6–7 in Gundissalinus’ cosmological treatise De processione mundi , in which the Spanish philosopher variously modifies the text he translated a few years before. After a short presentation of Gundissalinus’ double r…
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Gundissalinus on Necessary Being
This article examines the textual alteration strategy carried out by Dominicus Gundissalinus in his original works. One of the most striking examples of this approach can be detected in the large quotation of Ibn Sīnā's Metaphysica I, 6–7 in Gundissalinus’ cosmological treatise De processione mundi , in which the Spanish philosopher variously modifies the text he translated a few years before. After a short presentation of Gundissalinus’ double r…
Gundissalinus on the Angelic Creation of the Human Soul
With his original reflection—deeply influenced by many important Arabic thinkers—Gundissalinus wanted to renovate the Latin debate concerning crucial aspects of the philosophical tradition. Among the innovative doctrines he elaborated, one appears to be particularly problematic, for it touches a very delicate point of Christian theology: the divine creation of the human soul, and thus, the most intimate bond connecting the human being and his Cre…
Gázquez, José Martínez. The Attitude of the Medieval Latin Translators towards the Arabic Sciences
Robert Grosseteste on motion, bodies, and light
The article dissects Grosseteste’s theory of the origin of bodily motion discussed in De motu corporali et luce. The first section examines Grosseteste’s discussion of the metaphysical structure of body qua body and the postulation of a kind of original motion (motion qua motion) as a common feature to all bodies. The second section discusses how Grosseteste’s stance on the ontological structure of bodies is connected to his claim that motion qua…
Early Robert Grosseteste on Matter
This article investigates the origin of Robert Grosseteste's theory of matter. Covering Grosseste's early production, from his De artibus liberalibus to De luce and the Commentarius on Aristotle's Physics , his gradual developing of a philosophical theory of matter and prime matter is examined by means of his progressive study of the works of the Aristotelian tradition. Surprisingly, Grosseteste's first notion of matter is bound to alchemy and as…
Conceiving Prime Matter in the Middle Ages
In its formlessness and potentiality, prime matter is a problematic entity of medieval metaphysics and its ontological limitations drastically affect human possibility of conceiving it. In this article, I analyse three influential strategies elaborated to justify an epistemic access to prime matter. They are incidental perception, negative abstraction, and analogy. Through a systematic and historical analysis of these procedures, the article show…
Hylomorphism into Pieces
Untangling Robert Grosseteste’s hylomorphism
During the thirteenth century, Aristotelian hylomorphism became the cornerstone of scholastic natural philosophy. However, this theory was fragmented into a plurality of interpretations and reformulations, sparking a rich philosophical debate. This article focuses on Robert Grosseteste (d. 1253), one of the earliest Latin philosophers to directly engage with Aristotle’s natural philosophy. Specifically, it delves into Grosseteste’s perspective on…
Roger Bacon’s Arguments from the Infinity of Matter
This study examines Bacon’s critique of the Unity of Matter Thesis (UMT) as articulated in his Opus maius. In this work, he refutes UMT using mathematical reasoning, particularly targeting its implication of material holenmerism. He argues that if prime matter were numerically identical across all things, it would possess infinite potency, which in turn necessitates an infinite essence. The latter would mean equating matter with God, a heretical …
Philosophy (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Medieval and Classical Philosophy (5 works) · Theology (4 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (3 works) · Historical and Linguistic Studies (3 works) · Historical Philosophy and Science (3 works) · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies (3 works) · Metaphysics (3 works) · Art (2 works)