Directory:Logic Museum/Osmund Lewry

Osmund Lewry (1930-1987) was a Dominican who made significant contributions to the history of logic and the philosophy of language in the thirteenth century. Lewry studied mathematical logic under Lejewski and Prior at Manchester (1961-2). From 1962-7 he taught the philosophy of language and logic at Hawkesyard. He was assigned to the Oxford Blackfriars in 1967. Dissatisfaction with teaching led him to work for an Oxford D.Phil on the logic teaching of Robert Kilwardby. In 1979 he began the study of the history of grammar, logic and rhetoric at Oxford in the period 1220-1320. In 1979 he went to the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies in Toronto first as a Research Associate, then as a Senior Fellow.

He died, surrounded by his fellow-Dominicans, on Easter Thursday, 23 April, at the Oxford Dominican house, of which he was still a member.

Bibliography

• The Commentary on 'Priscianus Maior' Ascribed to Robert Kilwardby. "The Problem of the authorship" CIMAGL 1975 Vol 15
• Robert Kilwardby's Writings on the Logica vetus Studied with Regard to Their Teaching and Method. Ph.D. diss. Oxford, 1978.
• Two Continuators of Aquinas: Robertus de Vulgarbia and Thomas Sutton on the Perihermeneias of Aristotle, Mediaeval Studies 43 (1981), 58–130
• 'The Oxford Condemnations of 1277 in Grammar and Logic', Osmund Lewry, in English Logic and Semantics, ed. Braakhuis, Nijmegen 1981.
• “Oxford Logic 1250-1275: Nicholas and Peter of Cornwall,” in The Rise of British Logic, Toronto 1983, pp. 2-23.
• (ed.), 1985, The Rise of British Logic: Acts of the Sixth European Symposium on Medieval Logic and Semantics , Papers in Mediaeval Studies 7, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto.
• (ed) Robert Kilwardby, On Time and Imagination. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987.

References

• New Blackfriars Volume 68 Issue 806, pp 266 - 316 (June 1987) [1]