It’s been a while since I’ve posted an update here. Here are a few publications I’ve put out since my last update.

In June of 2022, I contributed a short piece, ’13th-14th Century Theories of Inference’ for a special issue of The Reasoner Irene Binini assembled on the history of logical reasoning. The volume is available for free at the Reasoner’s website here.

More recently, I contributed two essays to a volume in honor of Gyula Klima, Metaphysics Through Semantics: The Philosophical Recovery of the Medieval Mind. The first is a revision of an essay going back to my dissertation, ‘The Semantic Account of Formal Consequence, From Alfred Tarski back to John Buridan’, an earlier draft of which is available here. The second is more personal, ‘Gyula Klima as Medievalist’, a bibliographical essay that aims at a broad overview of some of the main themes of Gyula’s scholarship. Springer, the volume’s publisher, has made the latter available for free here. Readers should also check out Joshua Hochschild’s excellent introductory essay to the volume here.

Gyula was my dissertation advisor and mentor at Fordham University. For readers less familiar with his work, Jack Zupko’s remarks on the back of the volume summarize the tenor of his work well, which has also exerted a strong influence on my own scholarship:

“More than any other living scholar of medieval philosophy, Gyula Klima has influenced the way we read and understand philosophical texts by showing how the questions they ask can be placed in a modern context without loss or distortion. The key to his approach is a respect for medieval authors coupled with a commitment to regarding their texts as a genuine source of insight on questions in metaphysics, theology, psychology, logic, and the philosophy of language – as opposed to assimilating what they say to modern doctrines, or using medieval discussions as a foil for ‘new and improved’ conceptual schemes.”