Medieval Formal Logic

Obligations, Insolubles and Consequences
2001. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-0-7923-6674-4
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, Band 49, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 1190 g

Reihe: The New Synthese Historical Library

Central topics in medieval logic are here treated in a way that is congenial to the modern reader, without compromising historical reliability. The achievements of medieval logic are made available to a wider philosophical public then the medievalists themselves. The three genres of arising in a later Middle Ages are covered: obligations, insolubles and consequences - the first time these have been treated in such a unified way. The articles on obligations look at the role of logical consistence in medieval disputation techniques. Those on insolubles concentrate on medieval solutions to the Liar Paradox. There is also a systematic account of how medieval authors described the logical content of an inference, and how they thought that the validity of an inference could be guaranteed.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yrjönsuuri, Mikko

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophische Logik, Argumentationstheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Mittelalterliche & Scholastische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I Obligations and Insolubles.- Duties, Rules and Interpretations in Obligational Disputations.- Disputation and Change of Belief—Burley’s Theory of Obligationes as a Theory of Belief Revision.- Obligations and Liars.- The Relations between Insolubles and Obligations in Medieval Disputations.- II Consequences.- Consequence as Inference: Mediaeval Proof Theory 1300–1350.- Consequence and Rules of Consequence in the Post-Ockham Period.- Self-reference and Validity Revisited.- III Translations.- The Emmeran Treatise on False Positio.- The Emmeran Treatise on Impossible Positio.- Questions on Aristotle’s Prior Analytics Opposite of the Consequent?.- Index of Names.