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The Abstractiones is of great historical interest because it gives a window onto how generations of British scholars learned a uniform approach to logic and reasoning from basics up to more sophisticated strategies in modal logic and quantification. It gives a systematic introduction to the techniques and terminology found in medieval philosophy.
List of contents
- Introduction
- The Work and its Author
- The Manuscripts
- Ratio edendi
- Editorial Conventions
- History of this Edition
- Bibliography
- Sophismata treated in the Abstractiones
- Text
About the author
Professor Sten Ebbesen Studied classical philology, Russian and Modern Greek in Copenhagen 1964-72, but in 1966-67 at the University of Thessaloniki. BA in Modern Greek 1968, MA in classical philology 1972. Dr. phil. Copenhagen 1981. Honorary doctor University of Gothenburg 2013. Employed as a classicist in Copenhagen since 1972. Main research field: late ancient and medieval logic and semantics. Some 270 scholarly publications, including numerous first editions of Greek and, mainly, Latin texts. Since 1982 editor of Cahiers de l'Institut du Moyen-Âge Grec et Latin. Editor-in-chief of Corpus Philosophorum Danicorum Medii Aev 1982-, and of Johannes Buridanus, Summulae 1994-.
Professor Mary Sirridge is Professor of Philosophy at the Louisiana State University. She received her Ph.D. at The Ohio State University in 1972. Her specializations are aesthetics, ancient and medieval philosophy, and medieval logic and grammar.
Professor E. Jennifer Ashworth read history at Girton College, Cambridge and then received a PhD in philosophy from Bryn Mawr College in the United States. My entire teaching career was spent in Canada, first at the University of Manitoba from 1964 to 1969, and then at the University of Waterloo in Ontario from 1969 to 2005. I specialize in late medieval and Renaissance logic and semantics.
Summary
The Abstractiones is of great historical interest because it gives a window onto how generations of British scholars learned a uniform approach to logic and reasoning from basics up to more sophisticated strategies in modal logic and quantification. It gives a systematic introduction to the techniques and terminology found in medieval philosophy.
