@article {13901,
	title = {The Mathematics of Natural Action in Seventeenth-Century Jesuit Scholasticism (Hurtado, Arriaga, Oviedo, Compton)},
	journal = {Filozofia},
	volume = {79},
	number = {6},
	year = {2024},
	pages = {593 - 607},
	type = {State},
	abstract = {This paper discusses the notion of the {\textquotedblleft}sphere of action{\textquotedblright} (sphaera activitatis) as developed by a group of seventeenth-century Jesuit intellectuals: Hurtado, Arriaga, Oviedo, and Compton. The problem inherited from fourteenth-century natural philosophers was to describe natural action which is spatially limited and decreases with distance at a regular rate. To capture natural patterns, scholastic philosophers introduced various forms of regularity or {\textquotedblleft}uniformity,{\textquotedblright} the relevant type for the present context being {\textquotedblleft}uniform difformity.{\textquotedblright} While the scholastic tradition also defined more sophisticated forms of regularity, these were not part of the discussion in the analyzed corpus.},
	keywords = {Francisco de Oviedo, Jesuit scholasticism, natural action, Natural philosophy, Oxford Calculators, Pedro Hurtado de Mendoza, Rodrigo de Arriaga, sphere of action, Thomas Compton Carleton},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.31577/filozofia.2024.79.6.2},
	url = {https://www.sav.sk/journals/uploads/0619173710.31577filozofia.2024.79.6.2.pdf},
	author = {Hanke, Miroslav}
}
