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165Change and Contradiction in Henry of GhentVivarium 55 (1-3): 22-35. 2017.Hugh of Novocastro, Landolfo Caracciolo, John Baconthorpe, and some other medieval authors argued that there are real contradictions in nature. The background of this early fourteenth-century theory was the Aristotelian question of how to determine the instant of change between p and ~p. The argument was that these are simultaneously true at the temporal instant of change if it is an instant of changing. The author’s aim is to discuss the background of this view in Henry of Ghent’s theory of ins…Read more
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Reforging the Great Chain of Being. Studies of the History of Modal TheoriesTijdschrift Voor Filosofie 46 (1): 182-182. 1984.
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1Reforging the Great Chain of Being: Studies of the History of Modal TheoriesMind 92 (367): 448-452. 1983.
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68Reforging the Great Chain of Being: Studies of the History of Modal Theories (edited book)Reidel. 1980.JAAKKO HINTIKKA GAPS IN THE GREAT CHAIN OF BEING: AN EXERCISE IN THE METHODOLOGY OF THE HISTORY OF IDEAS* For some historians, to understand everything is to pardon everything. For others, like Lord Acton, history is not only a judge, ...
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2Duns Scotus and the foundations of logical modalitiesIn Ludger Honnefelder, Rega Wood & Mechtild Dreyer (eds.), John Duns Scotus: metaphysics and ethics, E.j. Brill. pp. 127--145. 1996.
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42Trinitarian LogicIn H. Lagerlund (ed.), Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy, Springer. pp. 1335--1337. 2011.
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69Jaakko Hintikka in the Library of Living Philosophers: A DialogueVienna Circle Institute Yearbook 14 231-243. 2010.An evening discussion between professors Jaakko Hintikka and Simo Knuuttila on September 2, 2007, at the Helsinki conference: Knuuttila: Ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for inviting us to this event and for this opportunity to discuss the latest volume of the Library of Living Philosophers, which was published last spring. The title of the volume is “The Philosophy of Jaakko Hintikka”. Probably most people here know this series, which was founded in 1939 by P. A. Schilpp. The idea of the volumes…Read more
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173Review: The Critical Edition of Adam Wodeham's "Lectura secunda" (review)Synthese 96 (1). 1993.
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61New Ideas on Subject and Identity in Medieval LogicIn Ludger Honnefelder, Edmund Runggaldier & Benedikt Schick (eds.), Unity and Time in Metaphysics, Walter De Gruyter. pp. 183-197. 2009.
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373Medieval Commentators on Future Contingents in De Interpretatione 9Vivarium 48 (1-2): 75-95. 2010.This article considers three medieval approaches to the problem of future contingent propositions in chapter 9 of Aristotle’s De Interpretatione. While Boethius assumed that God’s atemporal knowledge infallibly pertains to historical events, he was inclined to believe that Aristotle correctly taught that future contingent propositions are not antecedently true or false, even though they may be characterized as true-or-false. Aquinas also tried to combine the allegedly Aristotelian view of the di…Read more
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76Time and creation in AugustineIn Eleonore Stump & Norman Kretzmann (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Augustine, Cambridge University Press. pp. 103--15. 2001.
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22003 European Summer Meeting of the Association for Symbolic Logic Logic Colloquim'03Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 10 (2). 2004.
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29Modern Modalities: Studies of the History of Modal Theories From Medieval Nominalism to Logical Positivism (edited book)Kluwer Academic Publishers. 1988.The word "modem" in the title of this book refers primarily to post-medieval discussions, but it also hints at those medieval mo dal theories which were considered modem in contradistinction to ancient conceptions and which in different ways influenced philosophical discussions during the early modem period. The me dieval developments are investigated in the opening paper, 'The Foundations of Modality and Conceivability in Descartes and His Predecessors', by Lilli Alanen and Simo Knuuttila. Boet…Read more
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John Buridan: Portrait of a Fourteenth-Century Arts Master, by Jack Zupko (review)Ars Disputandi 4. 2004.
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29EmotionsIn H. Lagerlund (ed.), Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy, Springer. pp. 290--294. 2011.
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28The Logic of Being: Historical StudiesSpringer Verlag. 1985.The last twenty years have seen remarkable developments in our understanding of how the ancient Greek thinkers handled the general concept of being and its several varieties. The most general examination of the meaning of the Greek verb 'esti'/'einai'/'on' both in common usage and in the philosophical literature has been presented by Charles H. Kahn, most extensively in his 1973 book The Verb 'Be' in Ancient Greek. These discussions are summarized in Kahn's contribution to this volume. By and la…Read more
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1Alexander Broadie, Introduction to Medieval Logic. New York and Oxford: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1993. Pp. viii, 219. $42.50 (review)Speculum 70 (2): 343-344. 1995.
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223Supposition and Predication in Medieval Trinitarian LogicVivarium 51 (1-4): 260-274. 2013.Many fourteenth-century logicians took affirmative propositions to maintain that the subject term and the predicate term stand or supposit for the same. This is called the identity theory of predication by historians and praedicatio identica by Paul of Venice and others. The identity theory of predication was an important part of early fourteenth-century Trinitarian discussions as well, but what was called praedicatio identica by Duns Scotus and his followers in this context was something differ…Read more
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Natural Necessity in John BuridanIn Stefano Caroti (ed.), Studies in medieval natural philosophy, L.s. Olschki. 1989.