Modal Logic in the Middle Ages
22nd – 23rd November 2012
St Andrews
Speakers:
- Wilfrid Hodges (formerly, Queen Mary London), “Permanent and necessary in Ibn Sina”
- Saloua Chatti (Tunis), “Existential import in Avicenna’s modal logic”
- Tony Street (Cambridge), “On Translating Katibi’s Epistle for Shams al-Din on the Rules of Logic”
- Paul Thom (Sydney), “The early reception of Robert Kilwardby’s modal syllogistic”
- Sara Uckelman (Tilburg), “Epistemic and Higher-Order Modalities in Obligationes“
- Catarina Dutilh Novaes (Groningen), “Ockham and Buridan on the semantics of divided modal propositions”
- Spencer Johnston (St Andrews), “John Buridan’s Divided Modal Syllogistic”
- Stephen Read (St Andrews), “Contingency syllogisms in Buridan’s Treatise on Consequences“
- Riccardo Strobino (Bochum and Cambridge), “Having one without the other: inseparability and logical consequence”
Inquires to Lynn Hynd