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dc.contributor.advisorRead, Stephen
dc.contributor.authorJohnston, Spencer C.
dc.coverage.spatialvi, 277 p.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-11-19T10:48:35Z
dc.date.available2015-11-19T10:48:35Z
dc.date.issued2015-11-30
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/7820
dc.description.abstractIn the last 30 years there has been growing interest in and a greater appreciation of the unique contributions that medieval authors have made to the history of logic. In this thesis, we compare and contrast the modal logics of Robert Kilwardby and John Buridan and explore how their two conceptions of modality relate to and differ from modern notions of modal logic. We develop formal reconstructions of both authors' logics, making use of a number of different formal techniques. In the case of Robert Kilwardby we show that using his distinction between per se and per accidens modalities, he is able to provide a consistent interpretation of the apodictic fragment of Aristotle's modal syllogism and that, by generalising this distinction to hypothetical construction, he can develop an account of connexive logic. In the case of John Buridan we show that his modal logic is a natural extension of the usual Kripke-style possible worlds semantics, and that this modal logic can be shown to be sound and complete relative to a proof-theoretic formalisation of Buridan's treatment of the expository syllogism.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of St Andrews
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectLogicen_US
dc.subjectPhilosophyen_US
dc.subjectModalityen_US
dc.subjectMedieval logicen_US
dc.subjectBuridanen_US
dc.subjectKilwardbyen_US
dc.subject.lccBC35.M63J7
dc.subject.lcshModality (Logic)en_US
dc.subject.lcshLogic, Medievalen_US
dc.subject.lcshKilwardby, Robert, d. 1279
dc.subject.lcshBuridan, Johnen_US
dc.subject.lcshEssentialism (Philosophy)en_US
dc.subject.lcshNominalismen_US
dc.titleEssentialism, nominalism, and modality: the modal theories of Robert Kilwardby & John Buridanen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoralen_US
dc.type.qualificationnamePhD Doctor of Philosophyen_US
dc.publisher.institutionThe University of St Andrewsen_US
dc.publisher.departmentUniversity of St Andrews. Arché Philosophical Research Centre for Logic, Language, Metaphysics and Epistemologyen_US


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