Stephen Read

Biographic Data

ID3840137
NAMEStephen Read
GIVEN NAMESStephen
FAMILY NAMERead
SIGNATUREREAD S
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of St Andrews
ORCID0000-0003-2181-2609
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS35
TOTAL CITATIONS304
AUTHOR COUNT33
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1974
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX3

  • Development of a multivariate prediction model for antidepressant resistant depression using reward-related predictors

    Open AccessXiao Liu, Stephen J Read et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2024

    Non-responders displayed 3 distinct symptom profiles along internalizing dimensions of anxiety, anhedonia, motivation, and cognitive function. Results should be replicated in a prospective cohort sample for predictive validity; however, this study demonstrates validity for using a limited anhedonia and internalizing self-report instrument for distinguishing between antidepressant resistant and responsive depression profiles

  • ‘Everything True Will Be False’: Paul of Venice and a Medieval Yablo Paradox

    Open AccessStephen ReadARTICLEHistory and Philosophy of Logic2022

    In his Quadratura, Paul of Venice considers a sophism involving time and tense which appears to show that there is a valid inference which is also invalid. Consider this inference concerning some proposition A: A will signify only that everything true will be false, so A will be false. Call this inference B. Then B is valid because the opposite of its conclusion is incompatible with its premise. But he proceeds to argue that it is possible that B…

  • A re-interpretation of the Levens Park ring cairn, Cumbria, based on the original excavation archives

    Open AccessTom Clare, Geoff Cook et al.ARTICLEArchaeological Journal2021References: 3

    The site of a Beaker burial excavated in Levens Park, Cumbria was published by David Sturdy in 1972 as that of a farmstead or place for the living altered into a ring cairn or place for the dead. However, the recent discovery of the excavation archive and contemporary correspondence reveals a far more complex monument than previously understood. We draw attention to a series of important omissions from the excavation report, provide a detailed ac…

  • The Rule of Contradictory Pairs, Insolubles and Validity

    Open AccessStephen ReadARTICLEVivarium2020

    The Oxford Calculator Roger Swyneshed put forward three provocative claims in his treatise on insolubles, written in the early 1330s, of which the second states that there is a formally valid inference with true premises and false conclusion. His example deployed the Liar paradox as the conclusion of the inference: ‘The conclusion of this inference is false, so this conclusion is false’. His account of insolubles supported his claim that the conc…

  • Anti-Exceptionalism about Logic

    Open AccessStephen ReadARTICLEThe Australasian Journal of Logic2019

    Anti-exceptionalism about logic is the doctrine that logic does not require its own epistemology, for its methods are continuous with those of science. Although most recently urged by Williamson, the idea goes back at least to Lakatos, who wanted to adapt Popper's falsicationism and extend it not only to mathematics but to logic as well. But one needs to be careful here to distinguish the empirical from the a posteriori. Lakatos coined the term '…

  • Non-normal Propositions in Buridan’s Logic

    Stephen ReadCHAPTERFormal Approaches and Natural…2017

    John Buridan’s introduction of the notion of non-normal propositions (propositiones de modo loquendi inconsueto) in his theory of the syllogism is a marked example of the influence of vernacular languages on the use of Latin in medieval logic and the regimentation of the language used. Classical Latin is an SOV language, in which the word order of the simplest sentence form is subject-object-verb, in contrast to the SVO order of the vernacular la…

  • The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Logic

    Open AccessJulie Brumberg-Chaumont, Ahmad Hasnawi et al.BOOKCambridge Companion to Medieval…2016

    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…

  • Aristotle and Łukasiewicz on Existential Import

    Open AccessStephen ReadARTICLEJournal of the American…2015

    Jan Łukasiewicz's treatise on Aristotle's Syllogistic, published in the 1950s, has been very influential in framing the contemporary understanding of Aristotle's logical systems. However, Łukasiewicz's interpretation is based on a number of tendentious claims, not least, on the claim that the syllogistic was intended to apply only to nonempty terms. I show that this interpretation is not true to Aristotle's text and that a more coherent and faith…

  • Replacing Truth

    Stephen ReadARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly2014References: 2

    Journal Article Replacing Truth Get access Replacing Truth. Scharp Kevin. (Oxford: OUP, 2013. Pp. xvi + 325. Price £45.00.) Stephen Read Stephen Read University of St Andrews, UK E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 64, Issue 256, July 2014, Pages 535–537, https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqu019 Published: 30 April 2014

  • Revisiting “Complexification,” Technology, and Urban Form in Lefebvre

    Open AccessStephen Read, Martine de Laat-Lukkassen et al.ARTICLESpace and Culture2013Cited by: 1References: 4

    Henri Lefebvre gave suggestive hints at a theory of urban form that have inspired those involved in the design and planning disciplines. His search was for an urban praxis that opened potentials for new forms of social relations and to this end he proposed a “metaphilosophy” designed to engage with the open-ended material relations of cities and societies. This, however, contradicted his Marxist commitment to a “finality” of man and society and h…

  • The medieval theory of consequence

    Open AccessStephen ReadARTICLESynthese2012Cited by: 3References: 6

  • Necessary truth and proof

    Open AccessStephen ReadARTICLEKriterion Revista de Filosofia2010Cited by: 1References: 5

    What makes necessary truths true? I argue that all truth supervenes on how things are, and that necessary truths are no exception. What makes them true are proofs. But if so, the notion of proof needs to be generalized to include verification-transcendent proofs, proofs whose correctness exceeds our ability to verify it. It is incumbent on me, therefore, to show that arguments, such as Dummett's, that verification-truth is not compatible with the…

  • How Is Material Supposition Possible?

    Stephen ReadARTICLEMedieval Philosophy and Theology1999

    I. SUPPOSITION AND SIGNIFICATIONIn an insightful article on the medieval theory of supposition, Elizabeth Karger noted a remarkable development in the characterization of the material mode of supposition between William of Ockham and his contemporaries in the early fourteenth century and Paul of Venice and others at the turn of the fifteenth century.1. E. Karger, “La Supposition Materielle comme Supposition Significative: Paul de Venise, Paul de …

  • Thinking about logic: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Logic

    Stephen ReadBOOKThinking about logic1994

  • Sophisms in Medieval Logic and Grammar: Acts of the Ninth European Symposium for Medieval Logic and Semantics, Held at St Andrews, June 1990

    Open AccessSt Read, Stephen ReadBOOKSophisms in Medieval Logic and…1993

  • Explaining One's Self to Others: Reason Giving in a Social Context

    James T Tedeschi, Margaret L Mclaughlin et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1993

  • Sophisms in Medieval Logic and Grammar

    Stephen J Read, Stephen ReadARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly1993

    Journal Article Book Notes Get access Sophisms in Medieval Logic and Grammar. Edited By Stephen Read. (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1993. Pp. xvii + 421. Price £ 112.00 h/b.) J.J. H J.J. H Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 43, Issue 173, October 1993, Pages 580–581, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220020 Published: 01 October 1993

  • William Ockham

    Stephen Read, Marilyn Mccord AdamsARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly1990

    Journal Article Book Reviews Get access William Ockham. By Marilyn Mccord Adams. (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1987. 2 volumes. Pp. xx + 1402. Price £40.) Stephen Read Stephen Read University of St. Andrews Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 40, Issue 161, October 1990, Pages 537–538, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220122 Published: 01 October 1990

  • Relevant Logic: A Philosophical Examination of Inference

    G B Keene, Stephen ReadARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly1990

    Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Relevant Logic: A Philosophical Examination of Inference. By Stephen Read. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988. Pp. 199. Price £27.50.) G. B. Keene G. B. Keene University of Exeter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 40, Issue 159, April 1990, Pages 259–263, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219818 Published: 01 April 1990

  • The Circle of John Mair. Logic and Logicians in Pre-Reformation Scotland

    Stephen Read, Alexander BroadieARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly1987

    Journal Article Book Reviews Get access The Circle of John Mair. Logic and Logicians in Pre-Reformation Scotland. By A. Broadie. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985. Pp. viii + 280. Price £25.00.) Stephen Read Stephen Read University of St. Andrews Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 37, Issue 146, January 1987, Pages 120–122, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220071 Published: 01 January…

  • Hypertasks

    Open AccessPeter Clark, Stephen ReadARTICLESynthese1984Cited by: 1References: 3

  • The Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy

    Stephen Read, Norman Kretzmann et al.ARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly1984

    Journal Article Book Reviews Get access The Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy. Edited By N. Kretzmann, A. Kenny and J. Pinborg. (Cambridge: C.U.P., 1982. Pp. xiv + 1036.) Stephen Read Stephen Read University of St. Andrews Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 34, Issue 135, April 1984, Page 170, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219514 Published: 01 April 1984

  • Burgess on relevance: A fallacy indeed.

    Stephen ReadARTICLENotre Dame Journal of Formal Logic1983

  • Once is enough: Causal reasoning from a single instance

    Stephen J Read, Stephen ReadARTICLEJournal of Personality and Social…1983Cited by: 6

  • Disjunction

    Stephen ReadARTICLEJournal of Semantics1982

    Journal Article DISJUNCTION Get access Stephen Read Stephen Read Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Semantics, Volume 1, Issue 3-4, 1982, Pages 275–285, https://doi.org/10.1093/jos/1.3-4.275 Published: 01 November 1982