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John Buridan (d. 1362) is one of the great thinkers of the later Middle Ages. He is perhaps best known for his contributions to logic, but the range of his thought is wide. This volume of new essays, written by leading Buridan scholars, places Buridan in his philosophical context and examines his writings on logic, modal logic, paradoxes, metaphysics, epistemology, and natural philosophy. It also introduces several new topics of discussion that have not so far been dealt with in scholarship on Buridan, such as his theory of knowledge, his view of artefacts, his conception of women, his writing on emotions, and his moral philosophy. Together the essays produce a rich picture of Buridan's thought and underline the continuing relevance of his philosophical concerns.

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Buridan, Jean. --- Buridanus, Johannes.

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John Buridan (ca. 1300-1362) worked out perhaps the most comprehensive account of nominalism, the philosophical doctrine according to which the only universals in reality are "names": the common terms of our language and the common concepts of our minds. But these items are universal only in their signification ; they are singular entities like any other in reality. This book examines Buridan's nominalist account of the relationship among language, thought, and reality, focusing on his deployment of the Ockhamist conception of a "mental language" for mapping the complex structures of written and spoken human languages onto a parsimoniously construed reality. Klima carefully analyzes Buridan's conception of the radical conventionality of written and spoken languages, in contrast to the natural semantic features of concepts, paying special attention to Buridan's token-based semantics of terms and propositions, and his conception of existential import, ontological commitment, truth, and logical validity. The book's conclusion discusses how Buridan maintains his nominalist position without giving up Aristotelian essentialism or yielding to skepticism.

Buridan, John --- Philosophy, Medieval. --- Buridan, Jean, --- Buridan, Jean, - 1300-1358.

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Philosophy, Medieval. --- Aristotle. --- Buridan, Jean,

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Logic, Medieval --- Congresses. --- Buridan, Jean, --- Congresses.