430. I’ll Teach You Differences: British Scholasticism
The evolution of Aristotelian philosophy from John Mair in the late 15th century to John Case in the late 16th century.
Themes:
• E.J. Ashworth, Language and Logic in the Post-Medieval Period (Dordrecht: 1974).
• E.J. Ashworth, “Logic in Late Sixteenth-Century England: Humanist Dialectic and the New Aristotelianism,” Studies in Philology 88 (1991), 224-36.
• E.J. Ashworth, “Changes in British Logic Teaching During the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries,” History and Philosophy of Logic 41 (2020), 309-30.
• A. Broadie, The Circle of John Mair: Logic and Logicians in Pre-Reformation Scotland (Oxford: 1985).
• A. Broadie, A History of Scottish Philosophy (Edinburgh: 2009), ch. 4.
• W.S. Howell, Logic and Rhetoric in England, 1500-1700 (Princeton: 1956).
• C.B. Schmitt, John Case and Aristotelianism in Renaissance England (Kingston: 1983).
• J.T. Slotemaker and J.C. Witt (eds.) A Companion to the Theology of John Mair (Leiden: 2015).
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