Master Richard Sophista Abstractiones

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.

About the author

E. Jennifer Ashworth was Distinguished Professor Emerita of Philosophy at the University of Waterloo. She was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a member of the British Academy Medieval Texts Editorial Committee. She was an expert in medieval and Renaissance philosophy and had contributed to a number of volumes in the Auctores Britannic Medii Aevi series. She died in 2024.

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.

Product details

• Authors: Sten (University of Copenhagen) Sirridge Ebbesen, Sten ( Ebbesen
• Assisted by: Mary Sirridge (Editor), E. Jennifer Ashworth (Editor), Ebbesen Sten (Editor), Ashworth E. Jennifer (Editor), Sirridge Mary (Editor), Sten Ebbesen (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 29.09.2016
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works
• EAN: 9780197265970
• ISBN: 978-0-19-726597-0
• Pages: 350
• Series: Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi > 25
• Subjects: PHILOSOPHY / Logic; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Medieval; Philosophy: logic; Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600; Medieval Western philosophy