Monthly Archives: January 2019

A medieval Brexit sophism

Posted on January 31, 2019 by Sara L. Uckelman

(With apologies to Burley, Buridan, Ockham, and PoV.) Curtain opens. Scene: the EU/UK Brexit negotiating room. PLATO, playing the part of the EU negotiators, is sitting at the table. Enter SOCRATES, playing the part of the UK parliament. SOCRATES: “In … Continue reading →

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A medieval puzzle of generic subjects and conjunctive predicates

Posted on January 24, 2019 by Sara L. Uckelman

Last weekend I had the pleasure of giving a keynote talk at the Twelfth Annual Cambridge Graduate Conference on the Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic. I was asked to give an overview/introduction to medieval logic (here are my slides), working … Continue reading →

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Spotlight on Gaunilo

Posted on January 10, 2019 by Sara L. Uckelman

Sometime between 1032 and 1064, a miller named Gualdrich, his wife Richilde, and their three daughters, Adelaide, Dominica, and Alburg, were indentured to the abbot of Marmoutier Abbey in Tours, and a document was drawn up in witness of this … Continue reading →

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