The Instant of Change in Medieval Philosophy and Beyond

The studies collected in the present volume constitute the first attempt at tackling the different aspects of the “problem of the instant of change”, a physical and logical problem that was intensely debated by late medieval philosophers and became popular again in the second half of the twentieth century.

Frederic Goubier, Ph.D. (2003), University of Geneva, is a Research Fellow at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Geneva. He has published several books and articles on medieval philosophy of language.
Magali Roques, Ph.D. (2012), is a Research Fellow at the Department of Philosophy of Universitat Hamburg. She has published several books and papers on fourteenth-century philosophy of language and metaphysics, including the edited volume The Language of Thought in Late Medieval Philosophy. Essays in Honor of Claude Panaccio (2017).
William Duba and Chris Schabel, Ph.D.'s (2006 and 1994) in History at Iowa, have recently published Bullarium Hellenicum. Pope Honorius III’s Letters to Frankish Greece and Constantinople (1216-1227) (2015) and several papers, including "Instrumenta Miscellanea Cypria. A Catalogue of Cypriot Documents in the Instrumenta Miscellanea of the Vatican Archives" (2018), “Francesco d’Appignano and the Non-Existent Canon. Tracing Francesco d’Appignano’s Scientific Legacy in Francesc Marbres, alias Johannes Canonicus, and Fragments Discovered Along the Way” (2017), “Remigio, Scotus, Auriol, and the Myth of the Two-Year Sentences Lecture at Paris" (2017), and “Nos enim sumus sicut talpae. Pierre Ceffons on the Scientific Limitations of Cosmology, with His Views on the Rotation of the Earth and the Plurality of Worlds: II Sentences, d. 1” (2016).