Oxford Calculators

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Richard Swineshead , Calculator , 1520

The Oxford Calculators (or Mertonian Calculators ) were a group of 14th-century thinkers at Merton College and Oxford University who sought a logical-mathematical approximation of philosophical problems.

Main representatives of the current were Thomas Bradwardine , William Heytesbury , Richard Swineshead and John Dumbleton . They built on earlier work by Walter Burley and Gerhard von Brussels .

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literature

  • Edith Sylla - The Oxford Calculators -, In: Kretzmann, Kenny & Pinborg (eds.) - The Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy -, 1982.
  • John Longeway - William Heytesbury -, In: The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy , 2003.

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