Monthly Archives: September 2017

Bibliography of literature on obligations

Posted on September 28, 2017 by Sara L. Uckelman

For many years now, I’ve maintained a bibliography of literature on obligationes. It has moved around from website to website as I’ve moved around from place to place, and unfortunately my current academic webspace is so limited, I can’t spare … Continue reading →

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Four grades of necessity in Buridan

Posted on September 21, 2017 by Sara L. Uckelman

I’m currently reading through Paloma Pérez-Ilzarbe and María Cerezo’s History of Logic and Semantics: Studies on the Aristotelian and Terminist Traditions, a collection of papers in honor of Angel d’Ors, and learning all sorts of interesting things. In Calvin Normore’s … Continue reading →

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Spotlight on Thomas Bricot

Posted on September 14, 2017 by Sara L. Uckelman

I’m moving office right now, which involves packing up all of my books (my dept. admin expressed doubt when I said seven crates wouldn’t be enough; I’ve now filled up that many twice, and still have about 1-2 more crates’ … Continue reading →

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Iterated epistemic modalities

Posted on September 7, 2017 by Sara L. Uckelman

There is a lot of very interesting medieval work on epistemic modalities, usually found in treatises De scire et dubitare, and whenever I present on this material at conferences, contemporary logicians always want to know whether they considered iterated modalities. … Continue reading →

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