Insolubilia
By: Thomas Bradwardine ; introduction, translation, and notes by Stephen Read
Contributors: Read, Stephen
Series: Dallas medieval texts and translations -- 10; Dallas medieval texts and translations -- 10.
Publisher: Peeters
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Paris; Walpole, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9789042923171
Subjects: Catalogs; Medieval Manuscripts; Philosophy; Early works to 1800; Semantics (Philosophy); Logic; Concepts; Manuscripts; Insolubilia (Logic); Language and languages
Description: "The fourteenth-century thinker Thomas Bradwardine is well known in both the history of science and the history of theology. The first of the Merton Calculators (mathematical physicists) and passionate defender of the Augustinian doctrine of salvation through grace alone, he was briefly archbishop of Canterbury before succumbing to the Black Death in 1349. This new edition of his Insolubilia, made from all thirteen known manuscripts, shows that he was also a logician of the first rank. The edition is accompanied by a full English translation. In the treatise, Bradwardine considers and rejects the theories of his contemporaries about the logical puzzles known as 'insolubles,' and sets out his own solution at length and in detail. In a substantial introduction, Stephen Read describes Bradwardine's analysis, compares it with other more recent theories, and places it in its historical context. The text is accompanied by three appendices, the first of which is an extra chapter found in two manuscripts (and partly in a third) that appears to contain further thoughts by Bradwardine himself. The second contains an extract from Ralph Strode's Insolubilia, composed in the 1360s, repeating and enlarging on Bradwardine's text; and the third consists of an anonymous text that applies Bradwardine's solution to a succession of different insolubles"--P. [4] of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 50-57) and indexes.

Text in Latin and English on facing pages; preliminary matter in English.