Overview

Paul Thom’s book presents Kilwardby’s science of logic as a body of demonstrative knowledge about inferences and their validity, about the semantics of non-modal and modal propositions, and about the logic of genus and species. This science is thoroughly intensional. It grounds the logic of inference on that in virtue of which the inference holds. It bases the truth conditions of propositions on relations between conceptual entities. It explains the logic of genus and species through the notion of essence. Thom interprets this science as a formal logic of intensions with its own proof theory and semantics. This comprehensive reconstruction of Kilwardby’s logic shows the medieval master to be one of the most interesting logicians of the thirteenth century.

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Author:   Paul Thom
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   14
Weight:   0.657kg
ISBN:  

9789004408463

ISBN 10:   9004408460
Pages:   310
Publication Date:   19 September 2019
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Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Abbreviations  Introduction  1Logic as Science and Art  1 The Evolution of Logic  2 The Art of Logic  3 Branches of the Science of Logic  4 The Science of Logic as Sermocinal  5The Science of Logic Distinguished from Other Content in the Organon  6 Kilwardby’s Writings on Logic  7 Aspects of Kilwardby’s Thought  8 Formalisation  2 The Logic of Terms: Categories and Complex Terms  1 The Categories  2 Complex Terms  3 Formal Language  4 Models  5 Theorems  3The Logic of Terms: Relations between Terms  1 The Predicables  2 Genus and Species  3 Differentia  4 Proprium  5 Accident  6 Formal Analysis  7 Formal Language  8 Models  9 Truth in a Model  10 Postulates  11 Theorems  4 The Logic of Statements: Assertoric Statements  1 Propositions and Statements  2 Assertoric Statements  3 Truth  4 Ut nunc assertorics  5 Simpliciter Assertorics  6 Natural simpliciter Assertorics  7 Opposition and Equipollence  8 Conversion  9 Non-Aristotelian Consequences among Assertorics  10 Formal Analysis  11 Theorems  5 The Logic of Statements: Necessity and Possibility Statements  1 Modal Statements  2 Necessity Statements  3 Possibility Statements  4 Formal Analysis  5 Formal Language  6 Models  7 Theorems  6 The Logic of Statements: Contingency Statements  1 Unampliated Contingencies  2 Kilwardby’s Examples  3 Ampliated Contingencies  4 Kilwardby’s Rules for the Truth of Ampliated Contingency Statements  5 Kilwardby’s Examples  6 Formal Analysis  7 Theorems  7 The Logic of Inferences: Consequences  1 Consequences According to the Relations between Terms  2 Formal Consequences  3Pure Rules of Consequence  4Rules of Consequence and Conversion  5Rules of Consequence and Opposition  6Rules of Consequence, Opposition and Repugnance  7Rules of Consequence and Possibility  8Rules of Consequence and Assertion  9Rules of Consequence and Denial  10Essential Consequences  11Essential Consequence and Essential Inseparability  12Syllogistic Consequences  13Formal Analysis  14Truth Conditions  15Postulates  16Theorems  8The Logic of Inferences: Assertoric Syllogisms  1Syllogistic Figures and Moods  2Reduction  3Perfection  4Being Said of All  5Families of Syllogism  6Principles, Validity, Perfectibility  7Mixed ut nunc / simpliciter Inferences  8Summary  9Formal Analysis  10Generative Rules  11Theorems  9The Logic of Inferences: Necessity Syllogisms  1Family 3. The LLL Family  2Principles for LL Premises  3Being Said of All  4Reduction  5Summary  6Family 4. The LXlL Family  7Principles for L / Xl Premises  8Being Said of All  9Inferences Related to the Perfect Syllogisms  10Reduction  11Summary  12Formal Analysis  13Theorems  10The Logic of Inferences: Contingency Syllogisms  1Unrestricted Syllogistic Conversion in Family 3  2Unrestricted Syllogistic Conversion in Family 4  3Family 5. The Q’ Q’ Q’ Family  4Family 6. The QXlQ Family  5Family 7. The QLQ Family  6Formal Analysis  11The Logic of Inferences: Non-perfectible Inferences  1xq Premises  2Realised Modals  3Formal Analysis  4Envoi  References  Modern Author Index  Subject Index  Ancient an Medieval Author Index

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"""Robert Kilwardby (d. 1279) was almost always of interest to medieval philosophers. This interest, however, has seldom been replicated by modern editorial initiatives, leaving our appreciation of the Oxford master’s intellectual profile incomplete, and perhaps uneven. We are aware of the different contributions that Kilwardby made to metaphysics and to the natural philosophy of his time, and we know that he was a dedicated and influential logician. We may even claim that Kilwardby was a fortunate logician, for he was one of the first scholars in the Latin West to read and to comment on the newly discovered books of Aristotle’s logic. This feature is greatly stressed in Paul Thom’s second book devoted exclusively to Kilwardby’s ""science of logic"", as described in the title.[...] Thom’s volume already stands as a great and inspiring work for the almost timeless interpretative potential he fairly attributes to Robert Kilwardby’s logic."" Edit Anna Lukacs, in Speculum 96/1 , (January 2021)."

Robert Kilwardby (d. 1279) was almost always of interest to medieval philosophers. This interest, however, has seldom been replicated by modern editorial initiatives, leaving our appreciation of the Oxford master's intellectual profile incomplete, and perhaps uneven. We are aware of the different contributions that Kilwardby made to metaphysics and to the natural philosophy of his time, and we know that he was a dedicated and influential logician. We may even claim that Kilwardby was a fortunate logician, for he was one of the first scholars in the Latin West to read and to comment on the newly discovered books of Aristotle's logic. This feature is greatly stressed in Paul Thom's second book devoted exclusively to Kilwardby's science of logic , as described in the title.[...] Thom's volume already stands as a great and inspiring work for the almost timeless interpretative potential he fairly attributes to Robert Kilwardby's logic. Edit Anna Lukacs, in Speculum 96/1 , (January 2021).

Author Information

Paul Thom, B.Phil. (Oxford), is Honorary Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities. He has authored numerous books on the history of logic.

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