Brill Robert Kilwardbys Science of Logic: A Thirteenth-Century Intensional Logic: 14 (Investigating Medieval Philosophy, 14)

Thom interprets Kilwardbys science of logic as a logic of intensions with its own proof theory and semantics. This comprehensive reconstruction of Kilwardbys logic shows the medieval master to be one of the most interesting logicians of the thirteenth century. Review "Robert Kilwardby (d. 1279) was almost always of interest to medieval philosophers. This interest, however, has seldom been replicated by modern editorial initiatives, leaving our appreciation of the Oxford master's intellectual profile incomplete, and perhaps uneven. We are aware of the different contributions that Kilwardby made to metaphysics and to the natural philosophy of his time, and we know that he was a dedicated and influential logician. We may even claim that Kilwardby was a fortunate logician, for he was one of the first scholars in the Latin West to read and to comment on the newly discovered books of Aristotle's logic. This feature is greatly stressed in Paul Thom's second book devoted exclusively to Kilwardby's "science of logic", as described in the title.[...] Thom's volume already stands as a great and inspiring work for the almost timeless interpretative potential he fairly attributes to Robert Kilwardby's logic." Edit Anna Lukacs, in Speculum 96/1 , (January 2021). About the Author Paul Thom, B.Phil. (Oxford), is Honorary Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities. He has authored numerous books on the history of logic.