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Jean Buridan (French:; Latin: Johannes Buridanus; c. 1301 – c. 1359/62) was an influential 14th‑century French philosopher. Buridan taught in the faculty of arts at the University of Paris for his entire career and focused in particular on logic and on the works of Aristotle.
Jean Buridan was an Aristotelian philosopher, logician, and scientific theorist in optics and mechanics. After studies in philosophy at the University of Paris under the nominalist thinker William of Ockham, Buridan was appointed professor of philosophy there. He served as university rector in 1328.
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May 23, 2018 · Buridan, Jean (b. Béthune, France, ca. 1295; d. Paris, France, ca. 1358)philosophy, logic, physics.Although Jean Buridan [1] was the most distinguished and influential teacher of natural philosophy at the University of Paris in the fourteenth century, little is known of his personal life.
Professor. Sources. Contributions to Science. Probably the most distinguished and influential teacher at the University of Paris during the first half of the fourteenth century, Jean Buridan did little experimental science himself but helped to lay the groundwork for the modern conception of science based on experimentation and observation ...
Jean Buridan (in Latin, Joannes Buridanus) (1300 – 1358) or John Buridan was a French philosopher, a nominalist, who wrote extensively on logic and natural philosophy. Although he was one of the most famous and influential logicians, philosophers and theologians of the later Middle Ages, he is today among the least well known.
In the 14th century, Jean Buridan postulated the notion of motive force, which he named impetus. When a mover sets a body in motion he implants into it a certain impetus, that is, a certain force enabling a body to move in the direction in which the mover starts it, be it upwards, downwards, sidewards, or in a circle.
Jean Buridan on the Web. Jean Buridan (whose portrait appears to the left) was a philosopher in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Paris in the 14th century. This website will provide information, research materials, and links to help people work on Buridan, his sources, and his legacy.
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