15th century in philosophy

This is a list of philosophy-related events in the 15th century.

Events

1433 – Baverius de Bonittis starts teaching philosophy and logic at the University of Bologna^[1]
1433 – Ambrogio Traversari completed his translation of Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers^[2]

1433 – Marsilio Ficino (d. 1499).^[4] Christian Neoplatonist, head of Florentine Academy and major Renaissance Humanist figure. First translator of Plato's complete extant works into Latin.
1433 – Nil Sorsky (d. 1508), Russian Hesychast^[5]
c.1467 – Desiderius Erasmus (d. 1536).^[6]
1467 – John Major (or Mair) (d. 1550). Scottish logician^[7]

1432 or 1433 – Ibn Turkah (Sa'in al-Din Turkah Isfahani), an influential Turcoman scholar and Sufist philosopher at the School of Isfahan, exiled by Tamerlane until the latter's death. The date of Ibn Turkah's death is uncertain; either 1432 or 1433.^[8]
1499 – Marsilio Ficino (b. 1433). See § Births

Alexander Broadie. History of Scottish Philosophy. Edinburgh University Press. 2009. Chapter 3. Pages 34 to 46.

^ Kristeller, p. 440
^
- Schmitt, p. 70
- Lepage, p. 27
^ Lorch, p. 214
^ Marsilio Ficino, entry by Christopher Celenza in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
^ Laos, p. 158
^ Vredeveld, Harry (1993). "The Ages of Erasmus and the Year of His Birth". Renaissance Quarterly. 46 (4): 754–809. doi:10.2307/3039022. JSTOR 3039022. S2CID 251375496.
^ Biard, Joel. "Major, John (1467–1550)". Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
^ Nasr, p. 209

Kristeller, Paul Oskar, Studies in Renaissance Thought and Letters, Volume 3, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 1993 ISBN 8884983339.
Laos, Nicolas, The Metaphysics of World Order, Pickwick Publications, 2015 ISBN 9781498201018.
Lepage, John L., The Revival of Antique Philosophy in the Renaissance, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 ISBN 1137281812.
Lorch, Maristella de Panizza, "Voluptas, molle quoddem et non invidiosum nomen: Lorenzo Valla's defense of Voluptas in the preface to his De voluptate", pp. 214–228 in, Mahoney, Edward Patrick (ed), Philosophy and Humanism, Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1976 ISBN 9004043780.
Nasr, Seyyed Hossein, Islamic Philosophy from Its Origin to the Present, State University of New York Press ISBN 0791481557.
Schmitt, Charles B., "John Wolley (ca. 1530–1596) and the first Latin translations of Sextus Empiricus", pp. 61–70 in, Watson, Richard A. (ed); Force, James E. (ed), The Sceptical Mode in Modern Philosophy, Springer, 2012 ISBN 9400927444.

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