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Professor Emeritus of the History and Philosophy of Logic in the Arché Research Centre for Logic, Language, Metaphysics and Epistemology

Member of the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Institute for Mediaeval Studies ()

Research

My main research interest remains the notion of logical consequence; and extends from medieval theories in the philosophy of language, mind and logic, to the more modern concerns of relevance logic and the philosophy of logic, in particular, proof-theoretic semantics and the semantic paradoxes.

, edited with an English translation by Barbara Bartocci and Stephen Read, was published on 17 October 2024 by Open Book Publishers. It's available in PDF Open Access, and this is the better format, with hyperlinks to one of the manuscripts and to some other relevant texts. (It is also possible to purchase a printed copy.) It was prepared by us as part of our Leverhulme Project, 'Theories of Paradox in Fourteenth-Century Logic: Edition and Translation of Key Texts'.

An edition and English translation, prepared jointly by Barbara Bartocci and myself, of the treatise on Insolubles in Paul of Venice's Logica Magna appeared in October 2022 as in the series published by .

From the summer of 2017, I have been leading the Medieval Logic Research Group in the Research Centre. The research of this group embraced the Leverhulme-funded project on

Theories of Paradox in Fourteenth-Century Logic: Edition and Translation of Key Texts

and Mark Thakkar's Leverhulme-funded project on John Wyclif's Logica (or Probationes Propositionum). It hosts weekly meetings of the Medieval Logic Seminar (formerly, the Medieval Logic Reading Group). Our last workshop was on Theories of Paradox in the Middle Ages: 21-23 October 2020, held by Zoom. Recordings of many of the talks can be found at . A number of the papers will be published in due course in . Previous workshops were held on The History of Arabic Logic in May 2019, on Medieval Logic and its Contemporary Relevance in 2018 and on Proofs of Propositions (probationes propositionum) in 14th-century Logic in 2017.

, which Catarina Dutilh Novaes and I edited, appeared in September 2016.

My English translation with Introduction of John Buridan's (a translation of Hubien's 1976 edition of the Latin text ) appeared at the end of 2014 with Fordham UP. Sten Ebbesen reviewed it in . and Sara Uckelman reviewed it in . Here is a list of corrections and improvements.

An earlier project was an examination of Bradwardine’s discussion of insolubles and the Liar paradox. I prepared a new edition and English translation of Bradwardine’s Latin text from the thirteen known manuscripts. The work appeared in May 2010 as in the series published by . Here is a list of corrections and improvements.

In 2016, I gave some video talks on and at . In May 2018 I was interviewed about the modern and medieval solutions to the liar paradox by William Nava on '' In June 2020, I was invited by Bob Pasnau to organise a panel discussion, with contributions from Sara Uckelman (Durham U) and David Sanson (Illinois State U) as well as myself for the Virtual Medieval Colloquium on . In August 2020 I gave a talk to the entitled.

An interview (End Times: medieval matters) with Richard Marshall was published in 2014 in . Another, with my former student , is in vol.5 no.12 (December 2011).

 

Walter Segrave, InsolublesPaul of Venice, Logica Magna: the Treatise on Insolubles


slr at st-and dot ac dot uk