Tag Archives: Walter Burley

What Should I Read? Recommendations for getting started in medieval logic

Posted on September 26, 2019 by Sara L. Uckelman

Two weeks ago I was at a workshop and someone asked me what books they should read if they wanted to get started in medieval logic — not secondary sources, but which primary texts. I told him I’d write up … Continue reading →

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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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Bulthuis on Burley on propositions

Posted on May 4, 2017 by Sara L. Uckelman

Over at the blog of the APA today, there’s an excellent interview with Nathaniel Bulthuis, whose research on Walter Burley’s views on the nature of propositions is germane to the interests of medieval logic. Among the many quite interesting things … Continue reading →

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Ex impossibili sequitur quidlibet in the 13th C (part 2)

Posted on October 20, 2016 by Sara L. Uckelman

Oh, look, it’s Thursday again! Time to write another medieval logic post. We’re still doing Aristotle in my intro class, so I haven’t any new interesting medieval tidbits from class prep to share. So I guess I’ll just return to … Continue reading →

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Integrating medieval logicians into Introduction to Logic

Posted on October 6, 2016 by Sara L. Uckelman

Term starts next week, and I am so pleased to be teaching again what is probably my favorite course ever, Introduction to Logic. Most of it is going to be a pretty standard Intro Logic course: syntax and semantics of … Continue reading →

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What’s in a name?

Posted on May 19, 2016 by Sara L. Uckelman

Yesterday I was writing up comments on an essay on Heloise and Abelard, and found myself, somewhat to my surprise, stubbornly referring to her exclusively as “d’Argenteuil”. After all, we call him “Abelard”, not “Peter”, so why shouldn’t we afford … Continue reading →

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Spotlight on William of Sherwood

Posted on May 12, 2016 by Sara L. Uckelman

When one thinks of the big names of medieval logic, it’s probably ones like William of Ockham, Jean Buridan, and Walter Burley that come to mind — or, if you’re a 13th C person, maybe Peter of Spain. So people … Continue reading →

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