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What Logical Consequence Could, Could Not, Should, and Should Not Be (2024)
Journal Article
Uckelman, S. (2024). What Logical Consequence Could, Could Not, Should, and Should Not Be. Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume, 98(1), 255–275. https://doi.org/10.1093/arisup/akae011

In ‘Logical Consequence (Slight Return)’, Gillian Russell asks ‘What is logical consequence?’, a question which has vexed logicians since at least the twelfth century, when people first began to wonder what it meant for one sentence (or proposition)... Read More about What Logical Consequence Could, Could Not, Should, and Should Not Be.

Self-Regulated Sample Diversity in Large Language Models (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Liu, M., Frawley, J., Wyer, S., Shum, H. P. H., Uckelman, S. L., Black, S., & Willcocks, C. G. (2024). Self-Regulated Sample Diversity in Large Language Models. In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (1891–1899)

Lambert of Auxerre (2024)
Digital Artefact
Uckelman, S. (2024). Lambert of Auxerre. [Online Article]

Lambert of Auxerre (?) (Lambertus, Lambert, Lambert of Lagny, Lambert of Ligny) was a thirteenth century French logician whose treatise, Summa Lamberti, was one of the “Big Four” logic textbooks written between 1240 and 1270 which represent the culmi... Read More about Lambert of Auxerre.

Christine Ladd-Franklin (2023)
Book Chapter
Uckelman, S. L. (2023). Christine Ladd-Franklin. In A. L. Stone, & L. Moland (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the Nineteenth Century. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197558898.013.16

Christine Ladd-Franklin was an American mathematician, logician, psychologist, and philosopher who studied at Vassar and Johns Hopkins and worked in institutions Germany and the United States. Although her scientific career spanned seemingly disparat... Read More about Christine Ladd-Franklin.

John Eliot's Logick Primer: A bilingual English-Massachusett logic textbook (2023)
Journal Article
Uckelman, S. L. (2023). John Eliot's Logick Primer: A bilingual English-Massachusett logic textbook. History and Philosophy of Logic, https://doi.org/10.1080/01445340.2023.2207244

In 1672 John Eliot, English Puritan educator and missionary to New England, published The Logick Primer: Some Logical Notions to initiate the INDIANS in the knowledge of the Rule of Reason; and to know how to make use thereof (Eliot 1672) The Logick... Read More about John Eliot's Logick Primer: A bilingual English-Massachusett logic textbook.

Fictional Modality and the Intensionality of Fictional Contexts (2022)
Journal Article
Uckelman, S. L. (2022). Fictional Modality and the Intensionality of Fictional Contexts. Australasian journal of logic, 19(4), 124-132. https://doi.org/10.26686/ajl.v19i4.7542

In [4], Kosterec claims to provide "model-theoretic proofs" of certain theses involving the normal modal operators and and the truth-in- ction (a la Lewis) operator F which he then goes on to show have coun- terexamples in Kripke models. He concludes... Read More about Fictional Modality and the Intensionality of Fictional Contexts.

Lorhard, Ramus, and Timpler and “The Birth of Ontology” (2022)
Journal Article
Øhrstrøm, P., & Uckelman, S. L. (2022). Lorhard, Ramus, and Timpler and “The Birth of Ontology”

This review article offers a discussion of some aspects of the historical and conceptual context when the term “ontology” (Lat. ontologia) was first introduced in the scholarly circles of the early 17th century. In particular, Barry Smith’s (2022) an... Read More about Lorhard, Ramus, and Timpler and “The Birth of Ontology”.

What Problem Did Ladd-Franklin (Think She) Solve(d)? (2021)
Journal Article
Uckelman, S. L. (2021). What Problem Did Ladd-Franklin (Think She) Solve(d)?. Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, 62(3), 527-552. https://doi.org/10.1215/00294527-2021-0026

Christine Ladd-Franklin is often hailed as a guiding star in the history of women in logic—not only did she study under C. S. Peirce and was one of the first women to receive a PhD from Johns Hopkins, she also, according to many modern commentators,... Read More about What Problem Did Ladd-Franklin (Think She) Solve(d)?.

Kinds of Arguments (2021)
Book Chapter
Uckelman, S. L. (2021). Kinds of Arguments. In R. Cross, & J. Paasch (Eds.), Routledge Companion to Medieval Philosophy. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315709604

The central methodology in western philosophy from the ancient Greeks is argumentation. Dialectical arguments are weaker than demonstrative ones, in that they lead to conclusions which are merely probable, rather than necessarily true; the weakness o... Read More about Kinds of Arguments.

Against the Theistic Multiverse (2020)
Journal Article
Uckelman, S. L. (2020). Against the Theistic Multiverse. Kriterion (Salzburg), 34(4), 1-14

We argue that Kraay’s “theistic multiverse” response to the objections to theism [11] is unsuccessful as it simply shifts the problems leveled against theism from the level of possible worlds to the level of possible universes. Furthermore, when we r... Read More about Against the Theistic Multiverse.

William of Sherwood on Necessity and Contingency (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Uckelman, S. L. (2020). William of Sherwood on Necessity and Contingency. In N. Olivetti, R. Verbrugge, S. Negri, & G. Sandu (Eds.), Advances in modal logic

Names Shakespeare Didn't Invent: Imogen, Olivia, and Viola Revisited (2018)
Journal Article
Uckelman, S. L. (2019). Names Shakespeare Didn't Invent: Imogen, Olivia, and Viola Revisited. Names: A Journal of Onomastics, 67(3), 153-159. https://doi.org/10.1080/00277738.2018.1490518

Just as Shakespeare’s plays left their indelible stamp on the English language, so too did his names influence the naming pool in England at the beginning of the 17th century and beyond, and certain popular modern names are often described as inventi... Read More about Names Shakespeare Didn't Invent: Imogen, Olivia, and Viola Revisited.

Normative and Descriptive Rationality: From Nature to Artifice and Back (2018)
Journal Article
Besold, T. R., & Uckelman, S. L. (2018). Normative and Descriptive Rationality: From Nature to Artifice and Back. Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, 30(2), 331-344. https://doi.org/10.1080/0952813x.2018.1430860

Rationality plays a key role in both the study of human reasoning and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Certain notions of rationality have been adopted in AI as guides for the development of intelligent machines and these notions have been given a norma... Read More about Normative and Descriptive Rationality: From Nature to Artifice and Back.

Review of Ana María Mora-Márquez, The Thirteenth-Century Notion of Signification: The Discussions and Their Origin and Development. (Investigating Medieval Philosophy 10.) Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2015. Pp. 256. $142. ISBN: 978-900-429867-5 (2017)
Journal Article
Uckelman, S. L. (2017). Review of Ana María Mora-Márquez, The Thirteenth-Century Notion of Signification: The Discussions and Their Origin and Development. (Investigating Medieval Philosophy 10.) Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2015. Pp. 256. $142. ISBN: 978-900-429867-5. Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies, 92(4), 1223-1225. https://doi.org/10.1086/693663

In this slim, dense, and heavily text-based book, Mora-Márquez traces the development of the semantic notion of ‘signification’ (significatio) from its origins in two distinct Greek philosophical conceptions, semeion and symbolon, into a uniquely med... Read More about Review of Ana María Mora-Márquez, The Thirteenth-Century Notion of Signification: The Discussions and Their Origin and Development. (Investigating Medieval Philosophy 10.) Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2015. Pp. 256. $142. ISBN: 978-900-429867-5.

Medieval Logic (2017)
Book Chapter
Uckelman, S. L. (2017). Medieval Logic. In A. Malpass, & M. A. Marfori (Eds.), The history of philosophical and formal logic : from Aristotle to Tarski (71-99). Bloomsbury

Many people unfamiliar with the history of logic may think of the Middle Ages as a \Dark Ages" in logic, with little development beyond Aristotelian syllogistic and full of scholastic wrangling focused on uninteresting details. This could not be furt... Read More about Medieval Logic.