Miroslav Hanke

Biographic Data

ID4004672
NAMEMiroslav Hanke
GIVEN NAMESMiroslav
FAMILY NAMEHanke
SIGNATUREHANKE M
AFFILIATIONSCzech Academy of Sciences
ORCID0000-0002-3906-3151
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS1
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • John of Holland on Logical Consequence. The Late-Fourteenth-Century Development of the British Logical Tradition

    Open AccessMiroslav HankeARTICLEHistory and Philosophy of Logic2025

    The treatise on logical consequence attributed to John of Holland and composed around 1370 is preserved in two currently known copies, namely Kraków, Biblioteka Jagiellońska, ms. 2660, fols. 24r–36r and Wien, Österreichische Staatsbibliothek, ms. 4698, fols. 138v–145v. While neither copy is complete, the missing parts do not overlap, and thus the content of the treatise can be reconstructed. The treatise presents an account of validity based on t…

  • John of Holland on Epistemic Sophisms

    Open AccessMiroslav HankeARTICLEVivarium2025

    The Sophismata attributed to John of Holland (fl. 1369) are preserved in three fourteenth-century manuscripts. The second part of the text contains three (bundles of) epistemic sophisms entitled “scitum a te est tibi dubium,” “tu dubitas an scis esse sicut a significat,” and “ a magis est scitum quam b .” The first two develop William Heytesbury’s Regulae solvendi sophismata and De sensu composito et diviso by incorporating the theory of sententi…

  • Na cestě ze scholastiky

    Open AccessMiroslav HankeARTICLEAither2025References: 36

    Aither is a double-blind peer review, Open Access online academic journal published by the Philosophical Faculty of the PalackĂ ̋ University in Olomouc in cooperation with the Philosophical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

  • A Short Appendix to Richard Lavenham’s Tractatus terminorum naturalium

    Miroslav HankeARTICLEVivarium2024

    Continuing the tradition of Oxford Calculatorial physics, the late fourteenth-century British Carmelite Richard Lavenham authored an amplification of the popular short textbook commonly referred to as Termini naturales . A copy of this amplification, preserved in a late fourteenth-century manuscript (Venezia, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, ms Lat. Z. 300 [= 1872]), is followed by a short series of notes and comments on some of the principles intr…

  • Richard Lavenham’s Tractatus terminorum naturalium

    Miroslav HankeARTICLEVivarium2023

    The late fourteenth-century English Carmelite Richard Lavenham was a prolific author of Latin and vernacular treatises on logic, physics, philosophy, and theology. Among other works pertaining to natural philosophy, he authored the short Tractatus terminorum naturalium , preserved in three complete or almost complete late fourteenth- or early fifteenth-century copies, with the opening passage preserved in three other manuscripts. The text is fund…

  • The Logic of Impossible Scenarios in Hurtado de Mendoza’s Tractatus de Trinitate

    Miroslav HankeARTICLEVivarium2021

    Since the late thirteenth century, the counterfactual Filioque debate, i.e., the question whether the Son and the Holy Spirit were distinct persons in the Trinity if the Holy Spirit only proceeded from the Father and not also from the Son, was an interesting context for developing the methodology of extreme thought experiments and the logic of conditionals with impossible antecedents and paradoxes of implication. In the mid-1620s, Puente Hurtado …

  • Between Imagination and Gambling. The Forms of Validity in Scholastic Logic

    Miroslav HankeARTICLEHistory and Philosophy of Logic2020

    Scholastic logic provided us with a variety of accounts of validity. With some degree of simplification, validity translated into truth-preservation evaluated against a set of worlds (casus) and was tested against a set of counter-models (instantia). Which inferences are valid depends on replacing ‘a set’ by ‘the set’ in such definitions, in other words by specifying the underlying concept of modality. Four levels of modality can be identified in…

  • The Scholastic Logic of Statistical Hypotheses

    Open AccessMiroslav Hanke, Zeta BooksARTICLEJournal of Early Modern Studies2019

    Among the important conceptual innovations introduced in the second scholasticism era and motivated by theological debates following the Council of Trent were the theories of moral necessity and moral implication. As they were centred upon a view of moral necessity as a form of necessity weaker than physical (and, ipso facto, metaphysical and logical) necessity, and moral implication as weaker than physical (and, ipso facto, metaphysical and logi…

  • The Probabilistic Logic of Eusebius Amort (1692-1775)

    Miroslav HankeARTICLEEarly Science and Medicine2019Cited by: 1

    While classical sources including Aristotle, Cicero and Boëthius addressed different notions of probability, medieval contributions to probability (other than epistemic probability) seem rather scarce. The situation changes during the Second Scholasticism with the post-Tridentine debates on “probable opinion” in moral theology and the introduction of “moral necessity” and “moral implication” (tied to the ideas of frequency, stochastic processes, …

  • The Bricot–Mair Dispute

    Miroslav HankeARTICLEHistory and Philosophy of Logic2013References: 1

    From a general semantic point of view, Thomas Bricot (d. 1516) and John Mair (1467–1550) are proponents of the solution to semantic paradoxes based on appreciation of the contextuality of truth, who differ in their approach to the relations of logical consequence and contradiction. The core of the study is the analysis of Mair's criticism of Bricot presented in the sixth quaestio of his Tractatus insolubilium where the consequences of non-composi…