Search for dissertations about: "Jack Zupko"

Found 1 swedish dissertation containing the words Jack Zupko.

2. 1. Varieties of Necessity in John Buridan : Logic and Natural Philosophy in the Late Middle Ages

   Author : Guido Alt; Henrik Lagerlund; Jack Zupko; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; History of Philosophy; John Buridan; Medieval Philosophy; Medieval Logic; Natural Philosophy; Nominalism; Modality; Natural Necessity; History of Logic; Philosophy in the Fourteenth Century; Philosophy; filosofi;

   Abstract : This dissertation is a study of John Buridan's (c.1300-c.1361) conception of modalities. Modal concepts - concepts of necessity, possibility, impossibility, and contingency - describe the ways in which things could and could not be otherwise. READ MORE