Methods and Methodologies

Margaret Cameron, Ph.D. (2005) in Philosophy, University of Toronto, is Research Council Chair and Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Victoria.
John Marenbon, Ph.D (1979), Trinity College, University of Cambridge, is a Senior Research Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge and Honorary Professor of Medieval Philosophy in the University of Cambridge.

All those interested in the history of philosophy, mainly ancient and medieval philosophy (both European and Arabic), logic, language and metaphysics, especially those interested in the comparison between contemporary and medieval logical topics and methods.

List of Contributors .. vii
Preface .. xi
Methods and Methodologies: An Introduction .. 1
Margaret Cameron

PART ONE: METHODS
The ‘Ontologization’ of Logic. Metaphysical Themes in Avicenna’s Reworking of the Organon .. 27
Amos Bertolacci
Averroes and the Logical Status of Metaphysics .. 53
Matteo di Giovanni
Non Est Natura Sine Persona. The Issue of Uninstantiated Universals from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages .. 75
Christophe Erismann
What Counted as Logic in the Thirteenth Century? .. 93
Sten Ebbesen
Two Summulae, Two Ways of Doing Logic: Peter of Spain’s ‘Realism’ and John Buridan’s ‘Nominalism’ .. 109
Gyula Klima
The Scope of Logic: Soto and Fonseca on Dialectic and Informal Arguments .. 127
E. Jennifer Ashworth

PART TWO: METHODOLOGIES
Interpreting Medieval Logic and in Medieval Logic .. 149
Simo Knuuttila
Is There a Medieval Mereology? .. 161
Andrew Arlig
On Formalizing the Logics of the Past .. 191
Paul Thom
De Interpretatione 5–8: Aristotle, Boethius, and Abaelard on Propositionality .. 207
Christopher J. Martin

Bibliography .. 229
Index .. 241