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Claus Andersen
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My current project (MSCA) demonstrates the philosophical and historical importance of the “Formalist tradition” in Late-Medieval and Renaissance philosophy. The concepts of identity and distinction are the key components in the “Formalist treatises” that enjoyed vast diffusion during the Renaissance, had roots in Late Medieval scholasticism, esp. in the works of the Franciscan Duns Scotus, and played a significant role in textbooks of scholastic philosophy in the 17th and 18th centuries. The Formalists discussed whether their doctrines constituted a discipline of its own, a “science of the formalities” that would correspond to what to-day goes by the name of “formal ontology”. The rise of a new metaphysical discipline needs to be part of what we know about the intellectual culture of the Renaissance. This project is innovative in its identification and elimination of this gap in our knowledge and in its focus on scholastic metaphysics during the Renaissance.
2024
Andersen, Claus A.. Ens reale, ens rationis, or Something in-between? The Scotist Angelo Volpe († 1647) on the Status of esse cognitum. In: Vivarium : an international journal for the philosophy and intellectual life of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Vol. 62, no.1, p. 58–89 (2024).
2024
Andersen, Claus A.. Scientia formalitatum – The Emergence of a New Discipline in the Renaissance. In: Noctua, Vol. 11, no.2, p. 200-257 (2024). doi:10.14640/NoctuaXI5.
2023
Andersen, Claus A.. Middle Knowledge in the Middle of the 17th Century : Notes on a Recent Book by Sven K. Knebel. In: Studia Neoaristotelica, Vol. 20, no. 2, p. 195-226 (2023). doi:10.5840/studneoar20232025.
2022
Andersen, Claus A. ; Ramis-Barceló, Rafael. Jaume Janer OCist († after 1506) and the Tradition of Scoto-Lullist Metaphysics. In: Bulletin de Philosophie Médiévale, Vol. 64, p. 167-207 (2022). doi:10.1484/j.bpm.5.131551.
2022
Andersen, Claus A.. The Doctrine of Beings of Reason in Renaissance Lullism. Its Late-Medieval Background and Early-Modern Repercussions. In: Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale, Vol. 33, p. 289-323 (2022).
2020
Andersen, Claus A.. Scotist Metaphysics in Mid-Sixteenth Century Padua Giacomino Malafossa from Barge’s A Question on the Subject of Metaphysics. In: Studia Neoaristotelica, Vol. 17, no.1, p. 69-107 (2020). doi:10.5840/studneoar20201713.
2019
Andersen, Claus A.. What is Metaphysics in Baroque Scotism? Key Passages from Bartolomeo Mastri’s Disputations on Metaphysics (1646–1647). In: Analecta Romana Instituti Danici, Vol. 2019, no.44, p. 49–71 (2019).
2018
Andersen, Claus A.. Comprehension at the Crossroads of Philosophy and Theology. The Case of Mastri and Belluto’s Disputationes in De anima (1643). In: Studia Neoaristotelica, Vol. 15, no.1, p. 39-93 (2018). doi:10.5840/studneoar20181512.
2018
Andersen, Claus A.. Islamische Philosophie als Herausforderung für die Philosophiegeschichtsschreibung: Weg mit dem Mittelalterbegriff. In: Philosophisches Jahrbuch, Vol. 2018, no.125, p. 90-97 (2018).
2015
Andersen, Claus A.. Intuitive and Abstractive Cognition, praecisiones obiectivae, and the Formal Distinction in Mastri and Belluto and Later Scotist Authors. In: Archivum Franciscanum Historicum, Vol. 2015, no. 108, p. 183-247 (2015).
2014
Andersen, Claus A.. Ens rationis ratiocinatae and ens rationis ratiocinantis. Reflections on a New Book on Beings of Reason in Baroque-Age Scholasticism. In: Quaestio, Vol. 14, p. 315-327 (2014). doi:10.1484/j.quaestio.5.103618.
2009
Andersen, Claus A.. Metaphysica secundum ethymon nominis dicitur scientia transcendens. On the Etymology of ‘metaphysica’ in the Scotist Tradition. In: Medioevo (Padua) : rivista di storia della filosofia medievale, Vol. 34, no.34, p. 61-104 (2009).
2009
Andersen, Claus A.. The Quaestio de subiecto metaphysicae by Giacomino Malafossa from Barge (ca. 1481-1563). In: Medioevo (Padua) : rivista di storia della filosofia medievale, Vol. 2009, no.34, p. 427-474 (2009).
2024
Scotism Made in Louvain – The Scholastic Culture of the Franciscans in Belgium, éd. Andersen, Claus A.. Louvain-la-Neuve, 2024. 978-2-9603547-1-3. 40 p.
2023
Cognitive Issues in the Long Scotist Tradition, éd. Andersen, Claus A. ; Heider, Daniel (Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy; 5), Schwabe Verlag: Basel, 2023. 978-3-7965-4766-9. 454 p.
2022
Andersen, Claus A.. Falsafa. Ibn Rushd, filosofien og islam, Forlaget Vandkunsten: Copenhagen, 2022. 978-87-7695-641-7. 280 p.
2018
Pere Daguí, Tractatus formalitatum brevis, Tractatus de differentia, éd. Andersen, Claus A. (Bibliotheca philosophorum medii aevi Cataloniae; 4), Obrador Edèndum: Santa Coloma de Queralt, 2018. 978-84-9475-663-4. 212 p.
2016
Andersen, Claus A.. Metaphysik im Barockscotismus. Untersuchungen zum Metaphysikwerk des Bartholomaeus Mastrius. Mit Dokumentation der Metaphysik in der scotistischen Tradition ca. 1620-1750 (Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie; 57), 2016. 9789027214676. 993 p. doi:10.1075/bsp.57.
2016
Stellenindex und Konkordanz zu Alexander Gottlieb Baumgartens Metaphysica, éd. Andersen, Claus A. (Forschungen und Materialien zur deutschen Aufklärung; III,53,1-3), Frommann-Holzboog: Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt, 2016. 978-3-7728-2584-2. 1121 p.
2023
Andersen, Claus A.. Decretum Concomitans. Bartolomeo Mastri on Divine Cognition and Human Free Will. In: Daniel Heider, Claus A. Andersen, Cognitive Issues in the Long Scotist Tradition (Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy; 5), Schwabe Verlag: Basel, 2023, p. 333-363. 978-3-7965-4766-9.
2023
Andersen, Claus A.. Javelli and the Reception of the Scotist System of Distinctions in Renaissance Thomism. In: Tommaso De Robertis, Luca Burzelli, Chrysostomus Javelli Pagan Philosophy and Christian Thought in the Renaissance (International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées; 243), Springer, 2023, p. 143-167. 9783031276729. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-27673-6_7.
2023
Andersen, Claus A.. Short Introduction to a Long Tradition – And to this Volume. In: Daniel Heider. Claus A. Andersen, Cognitive Issues in the Long Scotist Tradition (Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy; 5), Schwabe Verlag: Basel , 2023, p. 9-30 . 978-3-7965-4766-9.
2022
Andersen, Claus A.. A Lullist Contribution to the Formalist Literature of the Renaissance: Jaume Janer’s Tractatulus de distinctionibus omnium rerum (1491). In: Rafael Ramis Barceló (ed.), Ramon Llull y los lulistas (siglos XIV-XX) (Colección Instituto de Estudios Hispánicos en la Modernidad; 22), Editorial Sindéresis: Madrid, 2022, p. 221-240 . 978-84-19199-36-2.
2011
Andersen, Claus A.. Introduction. In: Celia López Alcalde, Josep Batalla, Claus A. Andersen, Robert D. Hughes, Pere Tomàs, Tractatus brevis de modis distinctionum, text edited by (Bibliotheca philosophorum medii aevi Cataloniae; 2), Obrador Edèndum: Santa Coloma de Queralt, 2011, p. 12-270. 978-84-937590-8-7.