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