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The 2002 Brigitte Rosenkranz Memorial Lecture
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STEPHEN L. READ
Department of Logic & Metaphysics
University of St. Andrews, Scotland
"CONCEPTS & MEANING IN MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY"
Friday, April 12, 2002
3:00 PM
Dodd Hall 175
Reception following in Dodd 399
Stephen Read is a Senior Lecturer in Logic and Metaphysics and Reader in History and Philosophy of Logic at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. He is currently working on a research project on "Truthmaking and Necessity". In 2001, he published an edition and commentary on two medieval treatises on concepts. In 1995, he published _Thinking about Logic_ (Oxford University Press), an introduction to the philosophy of logic. He also edited a collection of papers, Sophisms in Medieval Logic and Grammar, published by Kluwer in 1993. His main area of interest in medieval studies is philosophy of language and logic in the late fourteenth century; in contemporary philosophy, it is in the philosophy of logic, especially modal and relevance logics and the notion of logical consequence. He is the Editorial Chairman of The Philosophical Quarterly.
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These lectures are given occasionally on a topic in philosophy of language or mind.
