Walter Burley
| Walter Burley | |
| Born | 1275 England |
|---|---|
| Died | 1344 Paris?, France? unknown |
| Occupation | Philosopher |
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Walter Burley (or Burleigh), c.1275-1344/5, was a medieval English logician. He was a Master of Arts at Oxford in 1301, and a fellow of Merton College, Oxford until 1305. He studied theology in Paris from before 1310, and by c.1320 he was a doctor of theology at Paris. He was a fellow of the Sorbonne by 1324. After studying William of Ockham's commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, Burley opposed Ockham on a number of points concerning logic and natural philosophy.
Life
Work
His main work was the De Puritate Artis Logicae Tractatus Longior, in which he covers such topics as the truth conditions for complex sentences, both truth-functional and modal, as well as providing rules of inferences for different types of inferences. He was one of the first logicians to recognize the priority of the propositional calculus over the predicate calculus, despite the fact that the latter had been the main focus of logicians up until this period.
Influence
Primary sources
- De Puritate Artis Logicae Tractatus Longior
- Treatise on Suppositions
- In Aristotelis Perihermenias (Questions on Aristotle's Perihermenias, 1301)
- De Formis
Secondary sources
- Broadie, Alexander. Introduction to Medieval Logic (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993).
- Walter Burley. De Puritate Artis Logicae Tractatus Longior, with a revised edition of the Tractatus Brevior, ed. P. Boehner (New York: 1955).
- Walter Burley. On the Purity of the Art of Logic. The Shorter and Longer Treatises, trans. & ed. P.V. Spade (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2000).
- Walter Burley. De Formis, ed. Frederick J. Down Scott (Munich: Verlag der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1970 ISBN 3769690044).
- Gracia, J.G. and Noone, T.B., A Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages, London 2003
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Notability
This philosopher has 1 pages in the Blackwell Companion.
