Dr Mark Thakkar

Honorary Research Fellow

Researcher profile

Email

mnat@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Research areas

I am working on an edition and translation of two philosophical works written by John Wyclif in the 1360s. Wyclif presents both of them as textbooks of logic, but the larger and more advanced work is particularly interesting for its digressions on atomism and natural philosophy.

Selected publications

• Open access

  A note on equiprobability prior to 1500

  Thakkar, M. N. A., 30 Jun 2022, In: Early Science and Medicine. 27, 2, p. 225-231 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Wyclif, the black sheep of the Oxford calculators

  Thakkar, M. N. A., 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. 186-214 29 p. (Medieval and early modern philosophy and science; vol. 34).

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

• Open access

  Duces caecorum: on two recent translations of Wyclif

  Thakkar, M., 22 Oct 2020, In: Vivarium. 58, 4, p. 357-383

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review

• Wyclif’s Logica and the Logica Oxoniensis

  Thakkar, M. N. A., 1 Dec 2020, Before and After Wyclif: Sources and Textual Influences. Campi, L. & Simonetta, S. (eds.). Rome: Fédération Internationale des Instituts d’Études Médiévales, p. 1-31 (Textes et Etudes du Moyen Âge; vol. 97).

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

• Walter Chatton on Future Contingents: Between Formalism and Ontology, written by Jon Bornholdt

  Thakkar, M. N. A., Apr 2019, In: Vivarium. 57, 1-2, p. 210-221

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review

• Open access

  Robert Fland, or Elandus Dialecticus?

  Read, S. & Thakkar, M. N. A., 1 May 2017, In: Mediaeval Studies. 78, p. 167-180

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Terence Parsons. Articulating Medieval Logic. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xiv + 331. Cloth, $74.00.

  Thakkar, M., Apr 2017, In: Journal of the History of Philosophy. 55, 2, p. 348-349

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review

• Oxford Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources: Fascicules XV–XVII (salvator - Z)

  Pezzini, G. (ed.), Howlett, D. (ed.), Ashdowne, R. (ed.), Thakkar, M. N. A., Sneddon, S. (ed.), Korn, K. (ed.) & White, C. (ed.), 2013, Oxford University Press.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

 

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