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24A Simple Semantics for Aristotelian Apodeictic SyllogisticsIn Marcus Kracht, Maarten de Rijke, Heinrich Wansing & Michael Zakharyaschev (eds.), Advances in Modal Logic, Csli Publications. pp. 454-469. 1998.
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25A Simple Semantics for Aristotelian Apodeictic SyllogisticsIn Marcus Kracht, Maarten de Rijke, Heinrich Wansing & Michael Zakharyaschev (eds.), Advances in Modal Logic, Csli Publications. pp. 454-469. 1998.
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62John Buridan’s Sophismata and Interval Temporal SemanticsHistory of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 13 (1): 131-147. 2010.In this paper we look at the suitability of modern interval-based temporal logic for modeling John Buridan’s treatment of tensed sentences in his Sophismata. Building on the paper, we develop Buridan’s analysis of temporal logic, paying particular attention to his notions of negation and the absolute/relative nature of the future and the past.We introduce a number of standard modern propositional interval temporal logics to illustrate where Buridan’s interval-based temporal analysis differs from…Read more
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31The Knowledge of ContradictionsThought: A Journal of Philosophy 11 (3): 157-164. 2022.If there are true contradictions, where are they? In language or in the world? According to one important view, best represented by Jc Beall (2009), only the former. In this paper, we raise a problem for this view. In order to defend a “merely semantic” version of dialetheism (aka ‘glut theory’), Beall adopts transparent accounts of truth and falsity, which gives rise to “dialethic ascent” on which true contradictions are also, contradictorily, untrue contradictions. This is a consequence of try…Read more
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Mystery at the SpandrelsIn Jonathan C. Rutledge (ed.), Paradox and Contradiction in Theology, Routledge Academic. pp. 173-190. 2023.
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18Interpreting Buridan: critical essays (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2024.A collection of new essays on the influential medieval philosopher John Buridan, written by leading Buridan scholars. The volume places Buridan in his philosophical context and examines his writings on topics including logic, modal logic, paradoxes, metaphysics, epistemology, theory of knowledge, moral philosophy, and natural philosophy.
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53The Modal Octagon and John Buridan's Modal OntologyIn Jean-Yves Béziau & Gianfranco Basti (eds.), The Square of Opposition: A Cornerstone of Thought (Studies in Universal Logic), Birkhäuser. pp. 35-52. 2016.In this paper we will argue that the ontology implicit in John Buridan’s modal octagon commits him to a form of contingentism. In particular, we will argue that Buridan is committed to denying the validity of the Barcan and converse Barcan formulae.
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68Connexive Principles After a ‘Classical’ Turn in Medieval LogicHistory and Philosophy of Logic 43 (3): 251-263. 2021.The aim of this paper is to look at the arguments advanced by three Parisian arts masters about how to understand Prior Analytics II 4 and the more general discussion that medieval authors situate...
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56Robert Kilwardby’s Science of Logic: A Thirteenth-Century Intensional Logic: P. Thom, Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2019. xviii+310 pp. $146. ISBN 978-90-04-40846-3History and Philosophy of Logic 41 (3): 301-303. 2020.Robert Kilwardby occupies an important place in the history of logic, and the history of western thought more generally. Perhaps best known to scholars for his Oxford condemnations of 1277...
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53Per Se Modality and Natural Implication – an Account of Connexive Logic in Robert KilwardbyLogic and Logical Philosophy 28 (3): 449. 2019.
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