Logic and Language in the Middle Ages. A Volume in Honour of Sten Ebbesen

Contents......Page 7
List of Contributors......Page 11
Preface......Page 13
Introduction......Page 15
1. Preliminary Observations on the Textual Tradition of Boethius’ First Peri Hermeneias Commentary......Page 27
2. Alberic of Paris on Mont Ste Geneviève against Peter Abelard......Page 41
3. Gilbert of Poitiers’s Contextual Theory of Meaning and the Hermeneutics of Secrecy......Page 63
4. Instantiae and the Parisian Schools......Page 79
5. Tempting Moves: Anonymus Cantabrigiensis on Peirastic Dialectic......Page 99
6. Philosophers and Other Kinds of Human Beings according to Peter Abelard and John of Salisbury......Page 119
7. A Logical Joust in Nikephoros Blemmydes’ Autobiography......Page 139
8. Strange Finds, or Nicholas of Paris on Relations......Page 153
9. Robert Kilwardby and Albert the Great on Praedicamenta and Praedicabilia......Page 169
10. Culuerbinus Somnians......Page 185
11. The ‘Anonymus Aurelianensis III’ and Robert Kilwardby on the Prior Analytics......Page 199
12. Demonstratio Ad Oculum and Demonstratio Ad Intellectum: Pronouns in PS.-Jordan and Robert Kilwardby......Page 213
13. A Note on Articulatio and University Grammar......Page 235
14. Explanation and Definition in Thomas Aquinas’ Commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics......Page 253
15. Aquinas, Scotus and Others on Naming, Knowing, and the Origin of Language......Page 271
16. Concrete Accidental Terms......Page 287
17. Socrates Desinit Esse Non Desinendo Esse: Limit-Decision Problems in Peter of Auvergne......Page 301
18. Does Loving Every Mean Loving Every Every, Even Non-Existent Ones? Distribution and Universals in the Opus Puerorum......Page 319
19. Apparentia and modi essendi in Radulphus Brito’s Doctrine of the Concepts: The Concept of Being......Page 351
20. Radulphus Brito on Common Names, Concepts and Things......Page 371
21. Radulphus Brito on Relations in His Questions on the Sentences......Page 387
22. Buridanian Possibilities......Page 403
23. Marsilius of Inghen on the Principle of Non-Contradiction......Page 417
24. Logic, Language and Medieval Political Thought......Page 433
Bibliography......Page 447
Complete Bibliography of Sten Ebbesen......Page 469
Index of Names......Page 483
Index of Manuscripts......Page 489