On February 28th, I will be at the University of Oxford presenting a paper on the History of Potentialities. I will talk about how the notions of ‘possibility’ and ‘potentiality’ have been constantly reshaped and redefined from ancient philosophy - by Aristotle, the Stoics, the Neoplatonic tradition - up to the early Middle Ages. This seminar will... Continue Reading →
Lo staff di Idee In Bozza è lieto di annunciare il primo seminario del ciclo 2018/2019. Prima speaker di questa stagione è Irene Binini (PhD, University of Freiburg/University of Oxford) con un intervento titolato: “La distinzione de re/de dicto: una scoperta logica del XII secolo”. Vi aspettiamo numerosi Lunedì 29 Ottobre presso l'aula A1 del... Continue Reading →
The Known & The Unknown Exploring Twelfth-Century Philosophy Conference on the twelfth-century commentaries on Aristotle, Boethius and Porphyry with a particular focus on the anonymous and to a large extent unedited material from the period. Speakers Chris Martin (University of Auckland) Caterina Tarlazzi (University of Geneva) Yukio Iwakuma (Fukui Prefectural University) Irene Binini (University of... Continue Reading →
The existence of contingent events - i.e., of events that are equally apt to happen or not to happen in time - is taken by Abelard as an evident and indubitable feature of the way things are. According to him, contingency characterizes both the natural world, inasmuch as some natural events are not the outcome... Continue Reading →
Lunedì 26 marzo, Irene Binini (University of Freiburg) terrà un seminario dal titolo “Strategie medievali contro il determinismo logico”. Il seminario si svolgerà in Aula Frege alle ore h. 12:30. E’ il terzo appuntamento del progetto “IDEE IN BOZZA”, il primo ciclo trasversale di seminari di filosofia organizzato da studenti e dottorandi dell’Università di Parma. Il calendario di “IDEE IN BOZZA” è reperibile qui. ABSTRACT... Continue Reading →
Abstract: The aim of this paper is to investigate the problem of existential import in Abelard’s modal logic, and to ask whether the system of logical relationships that he proposes for modal claims maintains its validity when some of the terms included in these claims are empty. In the following, I first argue that,... Continue Reading →
Giovedì 22 giugno, dalle ore 14.30 alle ore 17.00, si terrà a Bologna il simposio di logica medievale: “Goat-stags, Chimeras and Other Fantastic Creatures. Empty Terms and Existential Import in Medieval Logic“. Il simposio è inserito all’intero della conferenza internazionale SILFS 2017, di cui è possibile consultare l’intero programma online al sito: http://www.silfs.it/silfs-2017-programme/ Qui sotto la descrizione... Continue Reading →
Irene Binini 