Modern Views of Medieval Logic

While for a long time the study of medieval logic focused on editorial

projects and reconstructions of central medieval doctrines such as the

theories of signification, supposition, consequences, and obligations,

nowadays the spectrum of analysis has broadened and is increasingly

informed by modern logical research, whose perspective is then applied

to medieval logic. Promoting this tendency, logicians and researchers

concerned with semantics in the Gesellschaft fur Philosophie des

Mittelalters und der Renaissance (GPMR) founded a working group

bringing together medieval logic and modern applied logic. The present

volume is a seminal document of these interests and activities. It

analyzes theories in medieval logic which are useful for solving

questions of recent logic and explains crucial parts of medieval logic,

philosophy, and theology by applying techniques of present-day logic.