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39Walter Burley and the Obligationes attributed to William of SherwoodHistory and Philosophy of Logic 4 (1-2): 9-26. 1983.The history of the mediaeval obligationes-literature has only recently begun to be studied. Two important treatises in this literature, one by Walter Burley and the other attributed to William of Sherwood, have been edited by Romuald Green in a forthcoming book. But there is considerable doubt concerning the authenticity of the text attributed to Sherwood. The correct attribution and dating of this treatise is crucial for our understanding of the history of this literature. In this paper, we arg…Read more
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11Five Texts on the Mediaeval Problem of Universals: Porphyry, Boethius, Abelard, Duns Scotus, OckhamHackett Publishing. 1994.New translations of the central mediaeval texts on the problem of universals are presented here in an affordable edition suitable for use in courses in mediaeval philosophy, history of mediaeval philosophy, and universals. Includes a concise Introduction, glossary of important terms, notes, and bibliography.
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21Language and Logic in the Post-Medieval Period. By E.J. Ashworth. Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel Publishing Company. 1974. Pp. xvi, 304. $39.00 (review)Dialogue 15 (2): 333-340. 1976.
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17Ockham on Terms of First and Second Imposition and Intention, with Remarks on the Liar ParadoxVivarium 19 (n/a): 47. 1981.
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29Robert Fland's Insolubilia: An edition, with comments on the dating of Fland's worksMediaeval Studies 40 (1): 56-80. 1978.
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46From Guillelmi de Ockham, Summa logicae, Philotheus Boehner, Gedeon Gál and Stephanus Brown, ed., (“Guillelmi de Ockham Opera philosophica et theologica,” OPh I; St. Bonaventure, N.Y.: The Franciscan Institute, 1974), pp. 744–.
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33In the summer of 1980, I was privileged to be on the teaching staff of the Summer Institute on Medieval Philosophy held at Cornell University under the direction of Norman Kretzmann and the auspices of the Council for Philosophical Studies and the National Endowment for the Humanities. While I was giving a series of lectures on supposition theory, I went to my office one morning, and there under the door some anonymous wag from the Institute had slid the pen and ink drawing you see in the graphi…Read more
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36Ockham's Nominalist Metaphysics: Some Main ThemesIn The Cambridge Companion to Ockham, Cambridge University Press. 1999.
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86Walter Burley, from the Beginning of his Treatise on the Kinds of Suppositon (De suppositionibus)Topoi 16 (1): 95-102. 1997.(1) (p. 31) (1.1) “Some things that are said are said with complexity, and others are said without complexity.”3 Those that are said without complexity are, for example, ‘man’, ‘animal’. Those that are said with complexity are, for example, ‘A man runs’, ‘An animal runs’.4 (2) It is plain from this that the incomplex is part of the complex.
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15Lies, language, and logic in the late Middle Ages (edited book)Variorum Reprints. 1988.'This sentence is false' - is that true? The 'Liar paradox' embodied in those words exerted a particular fascination on the logicians of the Western later Middle Ages, and, along with similar 'insoluble' problems, forms the subject of the first group of articles in this volume. In the following parts Professor Spade turns to medieval semantic theory, views on the relationship between language and thought, and to a study of one particular genre of disputation, that known as 'obligationes'. The fo…Read more
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36The manuscript Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Class XI n. 12, Zanetti Latini 301 (= 1576), contains on fols. 1r–24v a seemingly unique copy of a series of fifteen logical questions, ten on obligationes and the remaining five on insolubilia.1 The series on obligationes is untitled and unattributed in the manuscript, but the questions on insolubilia begin (fol. 18r11) “Incipiunt quaestiones super insolubilibus,” and are attributed at the end to a certain John of Wesel (fol. 24v41): “Ergo e…Read more
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26How to Start and StopJournal of Philosophical Research 19 193-221. 1994.Mediaeval logicians often wrote about changes between contradictory states, for example a switch’s changing from being on to not being on. One of the questions discussed in these writings was whether at the moment the change occurs the changing thing is in the earlier or the later state. The present paper investigates the general setting for that question, and discusses the answer given by Walter Burley, an important early-fourteenth century author whose theory was a standard one. Burley’s theor…Read more
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Roger Swyneshed's Obligationes. Edition and commentsArchives d'Histoire Doctrinale et Littéraire du Moyen Âge 44. 1977.
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Richard Brinkley's "De Insolubilibus": a Preliminary AssessmentRivista di Storia Della Filosofia 46 (2): 245. 1991.
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56A history of hegelianism in golden age denmark. Tome I, the heiberg period: 1824–1836 (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 47 (1). 2008.This is the first of three “tomes” of Jon Stewart’s habilitationisskrift in philosophy at the University of Copenhagen; the second concerns The Martensen Period: 1837–1842, and the third Kierkegaard and the Left-Hegelian Period: 1842–1860. Together they make up volume 3 of Stewart’s series Danish Golden Age Studies . Their purpose is “to put forth the basic information about the Danish Hegel reception in a clear and readable fashion” . Such information needs to be put forth because, unlike Hegel…Read more
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95Ockham, Adams and connotation: A critical notice of Marilyn Adams, William ockhamPhilosophical Review 99 (4): 593-612. 1990.
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145The “dragon” that graces the cover of this volume has a story that goes with it. In the summer of 1980, I was on the teaching staff of the Summer Institute on Medieval Philosophy held at Cornell University under the direction of Norman Kretzmann and the auspices of the Council for Philosophical Studies and the National Endowment for the Humanities. While I was giving a series of lectures there (lectures that contribute to this volume, as it turns out), I went to my office one morning, and there …Read more
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26John Buridan on the Liar: a study and reconstructionNotre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 19 (4): 579-590. 1978.
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