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Daniel Eduardo Usma Gómez is a PhD student at the University of Lorraine and the Archives Henri Poincaré (PReST), based in Nancy, France. His dissertation aims to reconstruct and examine Thomas Aquinas’ philosophy of Mathematics and its impact on general issues in contemporary philosophy of mathematics from both an epistemological and a metaphysical perspective.

His main interests are the mode of existence of mathematical objects, the doctrine of mathematical abstraction (formal abstraction), the cognitive role of the imagination in mathematical activity, specifically in the description of diagrams, and the metaphysical significance of the vocabulary used in scholastic accounts of those topics

Kamil has just defended a dissertation on Medieval Metaphysics of Artefacts 1250-1500 at the University of Toronto. His main interests lie in late medieval metaphysics and natural philosophy, as well as palaeography and textual editing, since his research draws extensively on manuscript sources. He also has a secondary interest in late scholasticism.

From July 2022, he will be a Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, where his main new project will concern late medieval debates about the ontological status of numbers: whether numbers are entities distinct from numbered things, and if so, what they are and how they exist.

Davide is a PhD student in a joint programme between the University of Lucerne and the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris. He is interested in the relationship between logic and metaphysics and his doctoral research is dedicated to the several senses of being in late medieval philosophy within a broad project titled Senses of Being. The Medieval Reception of Aristotle’s doctrine starting from Metaphysics V 7.

One of his main interests is continuity and, more in detail, the opposition between a realist and a nominalist account of points in a continuum. Starting from that, his research is focused on the notion of infinity and on the role of logic, especially modal logic, for the explanation of the ontological status of the indivisible and the set-up of the structure of a continuous quantity.

Andrei is an associate professor at Babeș-Bolyai University (Cluj, Romania). He recently defended his Phd thesis Debates on the Continuum in the Natural Philosophy of XIVth Century. His research interests focus on the history of medieval atomism, Arabic philosophy, and the history of medieval universities.

Sylvain is a researcher at the CNRS-SPHERE. Previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Philosophy at Stockholm University. Together with Henrik Lagerlund and Erik Åkerlund, he is currently working on the research project The Mechanization of Philosophy, 1300-1700. His main research interests are the interaction between natural philosophy, metaphysics and mathematics in the Middle Ages. More precisely, he is currently investigating the increasing importance of mechanical explanations in late medieval thought focusing on three interrelated themes: the increasing reduction of formal causality to efficient causation; the evolution of theories of material substances; the quantification of natural properties.

Sylvan Roudaut, Cecilia Trifogli and I have presented a panel dedicated to the interplay of medieval mathematics and physics at the next 2022 SIEPM congress, which will take place in Paris.