Logic and Language in the Middle Ages

Jakob Leth Fink, Ph.D. (2009), University of Copenhagen, holds a postdoc position at the Center for the Aristotelian Tradition at that university. He has published on Plato and Aristotle and is the editor of The Development of Dialectic from Plato to Aristotle (Cambridge, forthcoming 2012).Heine Hansen, Ph.D. (2010), in Philosophy, University of Sydney, is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for the Aristotelian Tradition, University of Copenhagen. He is the author of John Pagus on Aristotle's Categories (Leuven University Press, 2012) and has published several articles and editions of medieval philosophical texts.Ana Maria Mora-Márquez, Ph.D. (2009), University Paris 1, holds a postdoc position at the Center for the Aristotelian Tradition at that university. She has published numerous articles on medieval logic and semantics and edited medieval texts on Aristotle's De Interpretatione.

• List of Contributors ... xiPreface ... xiiiIntroduction ... 1Sten Ebbesen1. Preliminary Observations on the Textual Tradition of Boethius’First Peri Hermeneias Commentary ... 13John Magee2. Alberic of Paris on Mont Ste Genevieve against Peter Abelard ... 27Yukio Iwakuma3. Gilbert of Poitiers’s Contextual Theory of Meaning and the Hermeneutics of Secrecy ... 49John Marenbon4. Instantiae and the Parisian Schools ... 65Christopher J. Martin5. Tempting Moves: Anonymus Cantabrigiensis on Peirastic Dialectic ... 85Jakob L. Fink6. Philosophers and Other Kinds of Human Beings according to Peter Abelard and John of Salisbury ... 105Luisa Valente7. A Logical Joust in Nikephoros Blemmydes’ Autobiography ... 125Katerina Ierodiakonou8. Strange Finds, or Nicholas of Paris on Relations ... 139Heine Hansen9. Robert Kilwardby and Albert the Great on Praedicamenta and Praedicabilia ... 155Alessandro D. Conti10. Culuerbinus somnians ... 171Paul Thom11. The ‘Anonymus Aurelianensis III’ and Robert Kilwardby on the Prior Analytics ... 185Christina Thomsen Thörnqvist12. Demonstratio ad oculum and Demonstratio ad intellectum: Pronouns in Ps.-Jordan and Robert Kilwardby ... 199Mary Sirridge and Karin Margareta Fredborg13. A Note on articulatio and University Grammar ... 221C. H. Kneepkens14. Explanation and Defijinition in Thomas Aquinas’ Commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics ... 239Fabrizio Amerini15. Aquinas, Scotus and Others on Naming, Knowing, and the Origin of Language ... 257E. Jennifer Ashworth16. Concrete Accidental Terms ... 273Simo Knuuttila17. Socrates desinit esse non desinendo esse: Limit-decision problems in Peter of Auvergne ... 287Paloma Pérez-Ilzarbe18. Does Loving Every Mean Loving Every Every, Even Non-existent Ones? Distribution and Universals in the Opus puerorum ... 305Laurent Cesalli, Alain de Libera and Frédéric Goubier19. Apparentia and modi essendi in Radulphus Brito’s Doctrine of the Concepts: The Concept of Being ... 337Silvia Donati20. Radulphus Brito on Common Names, Concepts and Things ... 357Ana María Mora-Márquez21. Radulphus Brito on Relations in his Questions on the Sentences ... 373Costantino Marmo22. Buridanian Possibilities ... 389Calvin G. Normore23. Marsilius of Inghen on the Principle of Non-Contradiction ... 403Egbert P. Bos24. Logic, Language and Medieval Political Thought ... 419Roberto LambertiniBibliography ... 433Complete Bibliography of Sten Ebbesen ... 455Index of Names ... 469Index of Manuscripts ... 475