The Cambridge Translations of Medieval Philosophical Texts: Volume 1, Logic and the Philosophy of Language

This volume is concerned with the logic and the philosophy of language and has a comprehensive index.

Norman Kretzmann (Edited by), Eleonore Stump (Edited by)

9780521280631, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 24 February 1989

544 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 3.1 cm, 0.79 kg

"As we expect from Kretzmann, the scholarship is impeccable, and the major points the reader needs to know are made clearly and succinctly. Those of us with an interest in medieval grammar have needed for some time a guide like this to the parallel tradition." Canadian Journal of Linguistics

This is the first of a three-volume anthology intended as a companion to The Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy. Volume 1 is concerned with the logic and the philosophy of language, and comprises fifteen important texts on questions of meaning and inference that formed the basis of Medieval philosophy. As far as is practicable, complete works or topically complete segments of larger works have been selected. The editors have provided a full introduction to the volume and detailed introductory headnotes to each text; the volume is also indexed comprehensively.

1. Boethius: on division
2. Anonymous: abbreviatios Montana
3. Peter of Spain: predictables
categories
4. Lambert of Auxerre
properties of terms
5. Anonymous: syncategoremata Monacensia
6. Nicholas of Paris syncategoremata (selections)
7. Peter of Spain: syllogisms, topics, fallacies (selections)
8. Robert Kilwardby: the nature of logic: dialectic and demonstration
9. Walter Burley: consequences
10. William Ockham: modal consequences
11. Albert of Saxony: insolubles
12. Walter Burley: obligations (selections)
13. William Heytesbury: the compounded and divided senses
14. William Heytesbury: the verbs 'know' and 'doubt'
15. Boethius of Dacia: the sophisma 'every man is of necessity an animal'.

Subject Areas: Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600 [HPCB]