She is a Senior Lecturer in Theoretical Philosophy at Lund University, Wallenberg Academy Fellow 2015-2027, and external member of the CNRS lab SPHERE.  

Her area of specialisation is medieval philosophy with competence in ancient philosophy, notably Aristotle

The title of her talk: Medieval Aristotelian Logic: the syllogism according to Radulphus Brito (1290s) and John Buridan (1320s)

ABSTRACT

This presentation summarises the findings of three papers on medieval Aristotelian logic (2021, 2024 and 2025). First, I show that medieval Aristotelian logic is best understood as a theory of scientific methods. This theory encompasses a formal enterprise, but is not  centred around it. Medieval Aristotelian logic is, rather, a theory of the syllogism, with the syllogism being understood as a tool for producing and transmitting scientific knowledge. I then focus on two pivotal authors from this period: Radulphus Brito and John Buridan. Radulphus Brito presents the most coherent version of thirteenth-century Aristotelian logic, offering a pragmatic perspective on the syllogism. John Buridan, in turn, introduces significant changes to the medieval logical tradition. Among other things, he does this through his 'substantial form of the syllogism', which amounts to the reification of syllogistic form. This represents a radical departure from Brito and the thirteenth-century tradition, which considered syllogistic form merely as a 'mental consideration'. Buridan's approach must be viewed as a subtle yet significant advancement in the history of logic, marking a shift towards considering logical form as an abstract entity and establishing logic as a formal discipline.