This thesis assesses the extent to which fourteenth-century Middle English poets were interested in, and influenced by, traditions of thinking about logic and mathematics.
Paul of Venice on a Puzzle About Uncertainty
June 10, 2012 By
Since the advent of Hintikka’s Knowledge and Belief [8] in 1962, epistemic logic has become a vibrant and exciting subfield of modal logic. However, like its sister alethic modal logic [18], epistemic logic is not a new invention or dis- covery of the 20th century. In the Middle Ages, philosophers were concerned with many of the same problems in epistemology that exercise us today, and logicians were correspondingly interested in what types of inferences containing epistemic modes or operators are licet
Religious and Scientific Duality of Thought: How Ibn Rushd and al-Ghazili Set the Agenda for Medieval Scholastic Debates
May 17, 2012 By
Ibn Rushd’s response to al-Ghazili ’s rather specious use of logic introduces the differentiation of religious and “scientific” or philosophical truths: an important, necessary, and previously unarticulated distinction which reverberated in the cathedrals and universities of Europe and which remains relevant for contemporary thinkers faced with similar dilemmas.
Interactive Logic in the Middle Ages
April 6, 2011 By
Interactive Logic in the Middle Ages By Sara L. Uckelman Published Online (2011) Introduction: The recent trend in logic has been to shift emphasis from static systems developed for purely theoretical reasons to dynamic systems designed for application to real world situations, such as modeling knowledge, belief, interaction, and reasoning in multi-agent systems. The emphasis […]
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