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Prof Stephen Read

Arché role: Management Committee

Current Projects: Medieval Logic Research Group (Principal Investigator)

Past Projects: Models, Modality and Meaning (Project leader) and History and Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics (Project leader)

 

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Research

I am the Principal Investigator in a research project funded by the Leverhulme Trust, which started in August 2017 and continues until July 2021, on Theories of Paradox in Fourteenth-Century Logic: Edition and Translation of Key Texts. My interests extend from medieval theories in the philosophy of logic, language and mind, to the more modern concerns of relevance logic and the philosophy of logic.

Selected publications

Buridan on paradox

Read, S., 1 Feb 2024, Interpreting Buridan: critical essays. Johnston, S. & Lagerlund, H. (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 37-50 14 p.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

Theories of paradox from Thomas Bradwardine to Paul of Venice

Read, S., 12 Jan 2023, Theories of paradox in the Middle Ages. Read, S. & Bartocci, B. (eds.). Rickmansworth: College Publications, p. 11-42 32 p. (Studies in logic; vol. 99).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

Theories of paradox in the Middle Ages

Read, S. (ed.) & Bartocci, B. (ed.), 12 Jan 2023, Rickmansworth: College Publications. 241 p. (Studies in logic; vol. 99)

Research output: Book/ReportAnthology

Walter Segrave's 'Insolubles': a restrictivist response to Bradwardine

Read, S., 12 Jan 2023, Theories of paradox in the Middle Ages. Read, S. & Bartocci, B. (eds.). Rickmansworth: College Publications, p. 43-66 24 p. (Studies in logic; vol. 99).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

'Everything true will be false': Paul of Venice and a Medieval Yablo paradox

Read, S., 2022, In: History and Philosophy of Logic. 43, 4, p. 332-346 15 p., 2.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

John Dumbleton on insolubles: an edition of an Epitome of his solution to insolubles

Bartocci, B. & Read, S., 2 Jul 2022, In: Noctua. IX, 3, p. 48-88 41 p., 2.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Paul of Venice, Logica Magna. Treatise on Insolubles

Bartocci, B. & Read, S. L., 25 Oct 2022, Leuven: Peeters. 448 p. (Dallas Medieval Texts and Translations)

Research output: Book/ReportScholarly edition

The calculators on the insolubles: Bradwardine, Kilvington, Heytesbury, Swyneshed and Dumbleton

Read, S., 2 Jun 2022, Quantifying Aristotle: the impact, spread and decline of the Calculatores tradition. Di Liscia, D. A. & Sylla, E. D. (eds.). Leiden: Brill, p. 126-152 27 p. (Medieval and early modern philosophy and science; vol. 34).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

Denotation, Paradox and Multiple Meanings

Read, S. L., 7 Jan 2020, Graham Priest on Dialetheism and Paraconsistency. Baskent, C. & Ferguson, T. M. (eds.). Springer, p. 439-454 16 p. (Outstanding Contributions to Logic).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

Modality in medieval philosophy

Read, S., 30 Dec 2020, Routledge handbook of modality. Bueno, O. & Shalkowski, S. A. (eds.). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 344-354 11 p. (Routledge handbooks in philosophy).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

Swyneshed, Aristotle and the Rule of Contradictory Pairs

Read, S. L., Mar 2020, In: Logica Universalis. 14, 1, p. 27-50 24 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review