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Time, Tense, and Modality
Proceedings of the XXIII European Symposium on Medieval Logic and Semantics
Series: - Investigating Medieval Philosophy, Volume: 26
This volume gathers twelve papers exploring how medieval thinkers conceptualized time, examined the linguistic expression of temporality, and addressed the impact of timeâs passage on the scope of possibility and necessity. Drawing on the XXIII European Symposium on Medieval Logic and Semantics, these essays also venture into natural philosophy, metaphysics, and theology, uncovering fresh arguments and revisiting pivotal debates from Avicenna through the fourteenth century.
Contributors are Fabrizio Amerini, Allan Bäck, Magdalena Bieniak, Jon Bornholdt, Enrico Donato, Davide Falessi, Heine Hansen, Elżbieta Jung, Martyna KoszkaÅo, John Marenbon, Costantino Marmo, Stephen Read, Paul Thom, Luisa Valente, and Wojciech Wciórka.
Contributors are Fabrizio Amerini, Allan Bäck, Magdalena Bieniak, Jon Bornholdt, Enrico Donato, Davide Falessi, Heine Hansen, Elżbieta Jung, Martyna KoszkaÅo, John Marenbon, Costantino Marmo, Stephen Read, Paul Thom, Luisa Valente, and Wojciech Wciórka.
Wojciech Wciórka is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Warsaw. He received his PhD in philosophy for a dissertation on Peter Abelardâs semantic notions associated with alethic modality (2012). His research focuses on twelfth-century logic, its philosophical aspects, and its interplay with theology. Apart from several papers on modality, supposition theory, mereology, and the nominales, his publications include a critical edition of two volumes of Stephen Langtonâs Quaestiones theologiae, III.1â2.
Magdalena Bieniak is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Warsaw. She read for her PhD in Philosophy at the University of Padua and at the Université de Sorbonne â Paris IV (co-tutelle) in 2008 and obtained habilitation in Philosophy in 2019. She has worked on a number of early scholastic authors, such as Stephen Langton, Gilbert of Poitiers, and Hugh of St-Cher, as well as on Socinians. Her major publications include studies on Stephen Langton and a critical edition of his Quaestiones theologiae (Oxford 2014â2024, together with Wojciech Wciórka, Riccardo Quinto, and others), and The Soul-Body Problem at Paris ca. 1200-1250 (Leuven 2010).
Magdalena Bieniak is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Warsaw. She read for her PhD in Philosophy at the University of Padua and at the Université de Sorbonne â Paris IV (co-tutelle) in 2008 and obtained habilitation in Philosophy in 2019. She has worked on a number of early scholastic authors, such as Stephen Langton, Gilbert of Poitiers, and Hugh of St-Cher, as well as on Socinians. Her major publications include studies on Stephen Langton and a critical edition of his Quaestiones theologiae (Oxford 2014â2024, together with Wojciech Wciórka, Riccardo Quinto, and others), and The Soul-Body Problem at Paris ca. 1200-1250 (Leuven 2010).
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Simo Knuuttila (1946â2022) in memoriam
âStephen Read
Introduction
âWojciech Wciórka and Magdalena Bieniak
1 Modal and Temporal Propositions in Avicenna
âAllan Bäck
2 Abelard and the Albricani on Truth Variability
âEnrico Donato and Heine Hansen
3 Comparing and Collecting: Gilbert of Poitiersâs Analysis of the Category of Time (âWhenâ) in His Commentary on Boethiusâs De trinitate, Chapter IV
âLuisa Valente
4 Stephen Langton on Time, Ceasing, and Successives
âWojciech Wciórka
5 Aquinasâ Tertia Via: Sources, Structure, and Logic
âJon Bornholdt
6 God, Time, and the Defence of Contingency: Aquinas and His Critics
âJohn Marenbon
7 Thomas Aquinas on the Omnitemporal Truth of Enuntiabilia: A Reappraisal
âFabrizio Amerini
8 The Will of God and Modalities: Contingency and Necessity: The Position of John Duns Scotus in Reportatio I A and Quodlibetum
âMartyna KoszkaÅo
9 Time as Continuous Quantity in Radulphus Britoâs Philosophy
âCostantino Marmo
10 Gersonidesâ Logic of Substantial and Accidental Change
âPaul Thom
11 Propositions de contingenti and Modal Hexagon in William of Ockham
âDavide Falessi
12 Richard Kilvingtonâs Theory of Contingency, Necessity, and Godâs Absolute and Ordained Power
âElżbieta Jung
Bibliography
Index
Notes on Contributors
Simo Knuuttila (1946â2022) in memoriam
âStephen Read
Introduction
âWojciech Wciórka and Magdalena Bieniak
1 Modal and Temporal Propositions in Avicenna
âAllan Bäck
2 Abelard and the Albricani on Truth Variability
âEnrico Donato and Heine Hansen
3 Comparing and Collecting: Gilbert of Poitiersâs Analysis of the Category of Time (âWhenâ) in His Commentary on Boethiusâs De trinitate, Chapter IV
âLuisa Valente
4 Stephen Langton on Time, Ceasing, and Successives
âWojciech Wciórka
5 Aquinasâ Tertia Via: Sources, Structure, and Logic
âJon Bornholdt
6 God, Time, and the Defence of Contingency: Aquinas and His Critics
âJohn Marenbon
7 Thomas Aquinas on the Omnitemporal Truth of Enuntiabilia: A Reappraisal
âFabrizio Amerini
8 The Will of God and Modalities: Contingency and Necessity: The Position of John Duns Scotus in Reportatio I A and Quodlibetum
âMartyna KoszkaÅo
9 Time as Continuous Quantity in Radulphus Britoâs Philosophy
âCostantino Marmo
10 Gersonidesâ Logic of Substantial and Accidental Change
âPaul Thom
11 Propositions de contingenti and Modal Hexagon in William of Ockham
âDavide Falessi
12 Richard Kilvingtonâs Theory of Contingency, Necessity, and Godâs Absolute and Ordained Power
âElżbieta Jung
Bibliography
Index
This book will interest scholars and students of medieval philosophy, logic, and theology, as well as those concerned with the nature of time and modality.