Medieval Logic

Workshop organized by

Rodrigo Guerizoli
 (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

and

Guy Hamelin
(University of Brasilia, Brazil)

As scholars know more and more, one of logic’s most fruitful periods extends for almost five centuries between, roughly speaking, 1100 to 1600. This medieval tradition of logic exhibits an extraordinary richness, consisting of creative reinterpretations of syllogisms, research on consequences, quantification, paradoxes, time, and, not to forget,some treatment on the relation between logic and natural language.

For some decades now, the material produced by medieval logicians is being edited, based on the newest research produced by medievalists. In all this nem material, there is much to be discussed.

Call for papers

This UNILOG medieval logic session will focus on the various and diversified contributions on logical questions raised in the Middle Ages. Topics may include:

  • Consequentia
  • Paradoxes: logical, semantical and epistemic
  • Insolubilia
  • Modal logic
  • Natural language and formal logic
  • Obligation
  • Sophismata
  • Syncategoremata
  • Grammar and logic
  • Universals
  • Greek and Roman influence on medieval logic
  • Theory of supposition

Abstracts for this workshop should be sent via e-mail before November 15th 2012 to:

rguerizoli@ufrj.br  or hamelingr@hotmail.com 

 

 

 

 

 

  

Keynote Speaker

Stephen Read
University of St Andrews, Scotland

"Signification, Closure and Indirect Speech Reports"

 

Contributing Speakers

Guilherme Louis Wyllie Medici, Federal Fluminense University UFF, Niteroi, Brazil, The Lullian Methods of Inconsistency Resolution

Frédéric Goubier, University of Geneva, Switzerland,  How Many  Distributions?  The Late Medieval Logic of Natural Language and Its Shifting Border

Wolfgang Lenzen, University of Osnabrück, Germany, Ockham’s Calculus of Strict Implication

Alireza Sayadmansour,  University of Tehran, Iran Muslims’ Logical Research: A Necessity for Unifying Controversial Drivesyncategoremata in Arabic Logic

Saloua Chatti, University of Tunis, Tunisia Syncategoremata in Arabic Logic

Juan Manuel Campos Benítez, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico, The Medieval Modal Octagon and the S5 Lewis Modal System

Mehdi Mirzapour, Ericsson Telecom Buridan's Theory of the Common Personal Supposition. The Origin of the Distribution Doctrine

Abdul Jaleel Kadhim Al Wali, United Arab Emirates, University, Abu Dhabi, UAE, Al Farabi’s  Model of Logic