Sara L Uckelman
Biographic Data
| ID | 1306804 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sara L Uckelman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sara L |
| FAMILY NAME | Uckelman |
| SIGNATURE | UCKELMAN S L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0719-371X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
John Eliot's Logick Primer
In 1672 John Eliot, English Puritan educator and missionary to New England, published The Logick Primer: Some Logical Notions to initiate the INDIANS in the knowledge of the Rule of Reason; and to know how to make use thereof (Eliot 1672) The Logick Primer: Some Logical Notions to Initiate the INDIANS in the Knowledge of the Rule of Reason; and to Know How to Make Use Thereof , Cambridge, MA: Marmaduke Johnson]. This roughly 80 page pamphlet intr…
The Routledge Companion to Medieval Philosophy
The central methodology in western philosophy from the ancient Greeks is argumentation. Dialectical arguments are weaker than demonstrative ones, in that they lead to conclusions which are merely probable, rather than necessarily true; the weakness of the argument stems from the weakness of the premises, and not from any defect in the type of argument itself. A demonstrative argument is one which produces knowledge; they are the topic of Aristotl…
Medieval Philosophy
Computation in Medieval Western Europe
Names Shakespeare Didn’t Invent
Just as Shakespeare’s plays left their indelible stamp on the English language, so too did his names influence the naming pool in England at the beginning of the 17th century and beyond. Today, certain popular modern names are often described as inventions of Shakespeare. In this article, we revisit three names which are often listed as coinages of Shakespeare’s and show that this received wisdom, though oft-repeated, is in fact incorrect. The th…
Obligationes
Obligationes are a special, regimented kind of oral disputation involving two participants, known as opponent and respondent. Obligational disputations were an important topic for Latin medieval logicians in the thirteenth and especially fourteenth centuries (and beyond); indeed, most major fourteenth-century authors have written on obligationes. And yet, perhaps due to their highly regimented nature, modern interpreters have often described obli…
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Logic
This volume, the first dedicated and comprehensive companion to medieval logic, covers both the Latin and the Arabic traditions and shows that they were in fact sister traditions, which both arose against the background of a Hellenistic heritage and which influenced one another over the centuries. A series of chapters by both established and younger scholars covers the whole period including early and late developments, and offers new insights in…
Logic in the Latin Thirteenth Century
In the medieval Latin philosophical tradition, the thirteenth century is set apart from other periods as perhaps the one most dominated by the influence of Aristotle. After the rediscovery and re-translation of many Aristotelian texts in the middle of the twelfth century, Aristotle's works quickly became the foundation of teaching in the Arts faculties of the universities of Paris and Oxford in the first few decades of the thirteenth century. Whi…
The logic of categorematic and syncategorematic infinity
Articulating Medieval Logic
Medieval logic can often ‘seem to consist of a variety of unsystematic and disparate remarks, and it is not at all obvious whether or how they fit together’ (p. 1). In this ambitious book, Terence Parsons seeks to demonstrate how ‘medieval logic can [...] be seen as a group of theories and practices clustered around a core theory which is a paradigm of logic; this theory consists of a number of widely known principles, all of which can be derived…
Arthur Prior and medieval logic
Though Arthur Prior is now best known for his founding of modern temporal logic and hybrid logic, much of his early philosophical career was devoted to history of logic and historical logic. This interest laid the foundations for both of his ground-breaking innovations in the 1950s and 1960s. Because of the important rôle played by Prior’s research in ancient and medieval logic in his development of temporal and hybrid logic, any student of Prior…
Prior on an insolubilium of Jean Buridan
We present Prior’s discussion of a puzzle about valditity found in the writings of the fourteenth-century French logician Jean Buridan and show how Prior’s study of this puzzle may have provided the conceptual inspiration for his development of hybrid logic
Reasoning about the Trinity
In Christian discourse, paralogisms arise when one blindly applies classical logic to the traditional definition of the trinity. Some people conclude, on the basis of these paralogisms, that logic cannot be coherently applied to the trinity. Others conclude that it can, but that the right logic is not classical logic, but an extension of it. An anonymous treatise from the late Middle Ages addresses the problems of paralogisms by introducing a sem…
Logic and the Condemnations of 1277
Jacob Lorhard’s Ontology
Modal and temporal logics for abstract space–time structures
Arthur Prior and medieval logic
Though Arthur Prior is now best known for his founding of modern temporal logic and hybrid logic, much of his early philosophical career was devoted to history of logic and historical logic. This interest laid the foundations for both of his ground-breaking innovations in the 1950s and 1960s. Because of the important rôle played by Prior’s research in ancient and medieval logic in his development of temporal and hybrid logic, any student of Prior…
The logic of categorematic and syncategorematic infinity
Articulating Medieval Logic
Medieval logic can often ‘seem to consist of a variety of unsystematic and disparate remarks, and it is not at all obvious whether or how they fit together’ (p. 1). In this ambitious book, Terence Parsons seeks to demonstrate how ‘medieval logic can [...] be seen as a group of theories and practices clustered around a core theory which is a paradigm of logic; this theory consists of a number of widely known principles, all of which can be derived…
Prior on an insolubilium of Jean Buridan
We present Prior’s discussion of a puzzle about valditity found in the writings of the fourteenth-century French logician Jean Buridan and show how Prior’s study of this puzzle may have provided the conceptual inspiration for his development of hybrid logic
Modal and temporal logics for abstract space–time structures
Jacob Lorhard’s Ontology
Reasoning about the Trinity
In Christian discourse, paralogisms arise when one blindly applies classical logic to the traditional definition of the trinity. Some people conclude, on the basis of these paralogisms, that logic cannot be coherently applied to the trinity. Others conclude that it can, but that the right logic is not classical logic, but an extension of it. An anonymous treatise from the late Middle Ages addresses the problems of paralogisms by introducing a sem…
Logic and the Condemnations of 1277
Arthur Prior and medieval logic
Though Arthur Prior is now best known for his founding of modern temporal logic and hybrid logic, much of his early philosophical career was devoted to history of logic and historical logic. This interest laid the foundations for both of his ground-breaking innovations in the 1950s and 1960s. Because of the important rôle played by Prior’s research in ancient and medieval logic in his development of temporal and hybrid logic, any student of Prior…
Prior on an insolubilium of Jean Buridan
We present Prior’s discussion of a puzzle about valditity found in the writings of the fourteenth-century French logician Jean Buridan and show how Prior’s study of this puzzle may have provided the conceptual inspiration for his development of hybrid logic
The logic of categorematic and syncategorematic infinity
Articulating Medieval Logic
Medieval logic can often ‘seem to consist of a variety of unsystematic and disparate remarks, and it is not at all obvious whether or how they fit together’ (p. 1). In this ambitious book, Terence Parsons seeks to demonstrate how ‘medieval logic can [...] be seen as a group of theories and practices clustered around a core theory which is a paradigm of logic; this theory consists of a number of widely known principles, all of which can be derived…
Obligationes
Obligationes are a special, regimented kind of oral disputation involving two participants, known as opponent and respondent. Obligational disputations were an important topic for Latin medieval logicians in the thirteenth and especially fourteenth centuries (and beyond); indeed, most major fourteenth-century authors have written on obligationes. And yet, perhaps due to their highly regimented nature, modern interpreters have often described obli…
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Logic
This volume, the first dedicated and comprehensive companion to medieval logic, covers both the Latin and the Arabic traditions and shows that they were in fact sister traditions, which both arose against the background of a Hellenistic heritage and which influenced one another over the centuries. A series of chapters by both established and younger scholars covers the whole period including early and late developments, and offers new insights in…
Logic in the Latin Thirteenth Century
In the medieval Latin philosophical tradition, the thirteenth century is set apart from other periods as perhaps the one most dominated by the influence of Aristotle. After the rediscovery and re-translation of many Aristotelian texts in the middle of the twelfth century, Aristotle's works quickly became the foundation of teaching in the Arts faculties of the universities of Paris and Oxford in the first few decades of the thirteenth century. Whi…
Computation in Medieval Western Europe
Names Shakespeare Didn’t Invent
Just as Shakespeare’s plays left their indelible stamp on the English language, so too did his names influence the naming pool in England at the beginning of the 17th century and beyond. Today, certain popular modern names are often described as inventions of Shakespeare. In this article, we revisit three names which are often listed as coinages of Shakespeare’s and show that this received wisdom, though oft-repeated, is in fact incorrect. The th…
Medieval Philosophy
The Routledge Companion to Medieval Philosophy
The central methodology in western philosophy from the ancient Greeks is argumentation. Dialectical arguments are weaker than demonstrative ones, in that they lead to conclusions which are merely probable, rather than necessarily true; the weakness of the argument stems from the weakness of the premises, and not from any defect in the type of argument itself. A demonstrative argument is one which produces knowledge; they are the topic of Aristotl…
John Eliot's Logick Primer
In 1672 John Eliot, English Puritan educator and missionary to New England, published The Logick Primer: Some Logical Notions to initiate the INDIANS in the knowledge of the Rule of Reason; and to know how to make use thereof (Eliot 1672) The Logick Primer: Some Logical Notions to Initiate the INDIANS in the Knowledge of the Rule of Reason; and to Know How to Make Use Thereof , Cambridge, MA: Marmaduke Johnson]. This roughly 80 page pamphlet intr…
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