Gyula Klima
Biographic Data
| ID | 3943387 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gyula Klima |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gyula |
| FAMILY NAME | Klima |
| SIGNATURE | KLIMA G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Fordham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1597-7039 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
John Buridan’s Questions on Aristotle’s De Anima – Iohannis Buridani Quaestiones in Aristotelis De Anima
John Buridan's Questions on Aristotle's de Anima - Iohannis Buridani Quaestiones in Aristotelis de Anima
Artificial intelligence and its natural limits
The Medieval Liar
Questions on the Soul by John Buridan and Others
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…
Intentionality, Cognition, and Mental Representation in Medieval Philosophy
Theory of Language
Aquinas mentioned some important and interesting ideas on how language (any human language) is related to the world through the mediation of human thought. Aquinas argued that the corresponding function of the predicate is to signify the individualized forms of individuals, whether the forms are the actual or not. Aquinas held that what establishes signification is an act of imposition. A human language primarily consists of utterances, that is, …
Theory of Language
Thomas Aquinas (1224/6–1274) lived an active, demanding academic and ecclesiastical life that ended while he was still comparatively young. He nonetheless produced many works, varying in length from a few pages to a few volumes. The Oxford Handbook of Aquinas is an introduction to this influential author and a guide to his thought on almost all the major topics on which he wrote. The book begins with an account of Aquinas's life and works. The ne…
Aquinas on the Materiality of the Human Soul and the Immateriality of the Human Intellect
This paper argues that Aquinas's conception of the human soul and intellect offers a consistent alternative to the dilemma of materialism and post‐Cartesian dualism. It also argues that in their own theoretical context, Aquinas' arguments for the materiality of the human soul and immateriality of the intellect provide a strong justification of his position. However, that theoretical context is rather “alien” to ours in contemporary philosophy. Th…
Natural Language and the Idea of a “Formal Syntax” in Buridan
The fifth chapter provides a detailed discussion of Buridan’s strategy of identifying the conceptual structures discussed in the chapter 4 by means of the various “syntactical clues” provided by spoken and written natural languages (in particular, Latin). The chapter compares the Buridanian strategy of “regimentation” with the modern (post-Frege-Russell-Montague) strategy of formalization, and argues that for the purposes of a “natural logic” the…
John Buridan
John Buridan (ca. 1300–1362) has worked out perhaps the most comprehensive account of nominalism in the history of Western thought, the philosophical doctrine according to which the only universals in reality are “names”: the common terms of our language and the common concepts of our minds. But these items are universal only in their signification; they are just as singular entities themselves as are any other items in reality. This book critica…
The nominalist semantics of Ockham and Buridan: A “rational reconstruction”
Ontological Commitment
This chapter continues the discussion of the issues raised by the chapter 6, focusing on the issue of ontological commitment. The chapter argues that Buridan’s theory of ampliation, reconstructed in terms of quantification with restricted variables, provides a genuine third alternative to the opposing modern views of Quine and “the Meinongians.” Furthermore, the chapter argues that Buridan’s theory thus reconstructed says “all the right things” a…
Syncategoremata
Nominalism
On Kenny on Aquinas on Being: A Critical Review of Aquinas on Being
Consequences of a closed, token-based semantics: The case of John Buridan
This paper argues for two principal conclusions about natural language semantics based on John Buridan's considerations concerning the notion of formal consequence, that is, formally valid inference. (1) Natural languages are essentially semantically closed, yet they do not have to be on that account inconsistent. (2) Natural language semantics has to be token based, as a matter of principle. The paper investigates the Buridanian considerations l…
Natures: The problem of universals
Aristotelian science seeks to define the essential nature of a thing and then to demonstrate the features the thing must have because of that nature. A philosophically inevitable question thus arises for Aristotelians: what is a nature? Is it a reality over and above (or perhaps “in”) the things whose nature it is? Is it a mental construction, existing only in our understanding of things; if so, on what basis is it constructed? This is the mediev…
Aquinas’ Theory of the Copula and the Analogy of Being
Man = Body + Soul: Aquinas’s Arithmetic of Human Nature
For philosophers who find both a dualistic and a purely materialistic account of the human soul unacceptable, the Aristotelian-Thomistic conception of the soul as the substantial form of the living body may appear to be an intriguing alternative. However, even if one is not afraid of the prospect of committing oneself to an apparently “obsolete” metaphysics, developing such a commitment may not look to be a wise move after all, since upon closer …
The Metaphysics and Natural Philosophy of John Buridan
This book is a collection of papers on the metaphysics and natural philosophy of John Buridan (ca. 1295-1361), one of the most innovative and influential thinkers of the later Middle Ages. It brings together original contributions by fifteen Buridan scholars on a number of central topics in the Buridanian corpus, including the theory of universals, the role of definitions in scientific practice, necessity and probability, time, the natural order,…
Ockham's Semantics and Ontology of the Categories
Ockham's treatment of the ten Aristotelian categories plays a crucial role in his innovative nominalist program. One of his main complaints against "the moderns," as he is wont to call his opponents, is that they treat the categories as comprising ten mutually exclusive classes of distinct entities. Indeed, the unknown author of a work written against Ockham's logic (characteristically entitled "A very useful and realist logic of Campsall the Eng…
The Semantic Principles Underlying St. Thomas Aquinas's Metaphysics of Being
Page range: 87-144
The changing role ofentia rationis in mediaeval semantics and ontology
‘Debeo tibi equum’: A Reconstruction of the Theoretical Framework of Buridan’s Treatment of the Sophisma
The changing role ofentia rationis in mediaeval semantics and ontology: A comparative study with a reconstruction
The changing role ofentia rationis in mediaeval semantics and ontology
The Semantic Principles Underlying St. Thomas Aquinas's Metaphysics of Being
Page range: 87-144
Ockham's Semantics and Ontology of the Categories
Ockham's treatment of the ten Aristotelian categories plays a crucial role in his innovative nominalist program. One of his main complaints against "the moderns," as he is wont to call his opponents, is that they treat the categories as comprising ten mutually exclusive classes of distinct entities. Indeed, the unknown author of a work written against Ockham's logic (characteristically entitled "A very useful and realist logic of Campsall the Eng…
The Metaphysics and Natural Philosophy of John Buridan
This book is a collection of papers on the metaphysics and natural philosophy of John Buridan (ca. 1295-1361), one of the most innovative and influential thinkers of the later Middle Ages. It brings together original contributions by fifteen Buridan scholars on a number of central topics in the Buridanian corpus, including the theory of universals, the role of definitions in scientific practice, necessity and probability, time, the natural order,…
Aquinas’ Theory of the Copula and the Analogy of Being
Man = Body + Soul: Aquinas’s Arithmetic of Human Nature
For philosophers who find both a dualistic and a purely materialistic account of the human soul unacceptable, the Aristotelian-Thomistic conception of the soul as the substantial form of the living body may appear to be an intriguing alternative. However, even if one is not afraid of the prospect of committing oneself to an apparently “obsolete” metaphysics, developing such a commitment may not look to be a wise move after all, since upon closer …
Natures: The problem of universals
Aristotelian science seeks to define the essential nature of a thing and then to demonstrate the features the thing must have because of that nature. A philosophically inevitable question thus arises for Aristotelians: what is a nature? Is it a reality over and above (or perhaps “in”) the things whose nature it is? Is it a mental construction, existing only in our understanding of things; if so, on what basis is it constructed? This is the mediev…
On Kenny on Aquinas on Being: A Critical Review of Aquinas on Being
Consequences of a closed, token-based semantics: The case of John Buridan
This paper argues for two principal conclusions about natural language semantics based on John Buridan's considerations concerning the notion of formal consequence, that is, formally valid inference. (1) Natural languages are essentially semantically closed, yet they do not have to be on that account inconsistent. (2) Natural language semantics has to be token based, as a matter of principle. The paper investigates the Buridanian considerations l…
Syncategoremata
Nominalism
Natural Language and the Idea of a “Formal Syntax” in Buridan
The fifth chapter provides a detailed discussion of Buridan’s strategy of identifying the conceptual structures discussed in the chapter 4 by means of the various “syntactical clues” provided by spoken and written natural languages (in particular, Latin). The chapter compares the Buridanian strategy of “regimentation” with the modern (post-Frege-Russell-Montague) strategy of formalization, and argues that for the purposes of a “natural logic” the…
John Buridan
John Buridan (ca. 1300–1362) has worked out perhaps the most comprehensive account of nominalism in the history of Western thought, the philosophical doctrine according to which the only universals in reality are “names”: the common terms of our language and the common concepts of our minds. But these items are universal only in their signification; they are just as singular entities themselves as are any other items in reality. This book critica…
The nominalist semantics of Ockham and Buridan: A “rational reconstruction”
Ontological Commitment
This chapter continues the discussion of the issues raised by the chapter 6, focusing on the issue of ontological commitment. The chapter argues that Buridan’s theory of ampliation, reconstructed in terms of quantification with restricted variables, provides a genuine third alternative to the opposing modern views of Quine and “the Meinongians.” Furthermore, the chapter argues that Buridan’s theory thus reconstructed says “all the right things” a…
Aquinas on the Materiality of the Human Soul and the Immateriality of the Human Intellect
This paper argues that Aquinas's conception of the human soul and intellect offers a consistent alternative to the dilemma of materialism and post‐Cartesian dualism. It also argues that in their own theoretical context, Aquinas' arguments for the materiality of the human soul and immateriality of the intellect provide a strong justification of his position. However, that theoretical context is rather “alien” to ours in contemporary philosophy. Th…
Theory of Language
Aquinas mentioned some important and interesting ideas on how language (any human language) is related to the world through the mediation of human thought. Aquinas argued that the corresponding function of the predicate is to signify the individualized forms of individuals, whether the forms are the actual or not. Aquinas held that what establishes signification is an act of imposition. A human language primarily consists of utterances, that is, …
Theory of Language
Thomas Aquinas (1224/6–1274) lived an active, demanding academic and ecclesiastical life that ended while he was still comparatively young. He nonetheless produced many works, varying in length from a few pages to a few volumes. The Oxford Handbook of Aquinas is an introduction to this influential author and a guide to his thought on almost all the major topics on which he wrote. The book begins with an account of Aquinas's life and works. The ne…
Intentionality, Cognition, and Mental Representation in Medieval Philosophy
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…
Questions on the Soul by John Buridan and Others
The Medieval Liar
Artificial intelligence and its natural limits
Philosophy (26 works) · Epistemology (19 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (12 works) · Medieval and Classical Philosophy (12 works) · Historical Philosophy and Science (11 works) · Linguistics (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Medieval Philosophy and Theology (7 works) · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies (6 works) · History (6 works)