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What's in a Name? History and Fantasy in Game of Thrones (2017)
Book Chapter
Uckelman, S. L., Murphey, S., & Percer, J. (2017). What's in a Name? History and Fantasy in Game of Thrones. In B. A. Pavlac (Ed.), Game of Thrones versus history : written in blood (241-250). Wiley

Nowhere is the border between history and fantasy more blurred than in people's perceptions of names. People often assume that names in modern fantasy stories are medieval in origin. Some fault for this assumption can be laid at the feet of the Fathe... Read More about What's in a Name? History and Fantasy in Game of Thrones.

Book Review: Jean Buridan, Treatise on Consequences. Translated with an introduction by Stephen Read, editorial introduction by Hubert Hubien. New York: Fordham University Press, 2015, pp. 185. ISBN 978-0-8232-5718-8 (hardback), $45 (2016)
Journal Article
Uckelman, S. L. (2016). Book Review: Jean Buridan, Treatise on Consequences. Translated with an introduction by Stephen Read, editorial introduction by Hubert Hubien. New York: Fordham University Press, 2015, pp. 185. ISBN 978-0-8232-5718-8 (hardback), $45. Studia Logica, 104(6), 1319-1323. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11225-016-9693-9

The Logic of Where and While in the 13th and 14th Centuries (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Uckelman, S. L. (2016). The Logic of Where and While in the 13th and 14th Centuries. In L. Beklemishev, S. Demri, & A. Máté (Eds.), Advances in modal logic (535-550)

Medieval analyses of molecular propositions include many non-truthfunctional connectives in addition to the standard modern binary connectives (conjunction, disjunction, and conditional). Two types of non-truthfunctional molecular propositions consid... Read More about The Logic of Where and While in the 13th and 14th Centuries.

William of Sherwood (2016)
Book Chapter
Uckelman, S. L. (2016). William of Sherwood. In E. N. Zalta (Ed.), Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. (Summer)

Többnyelvű névtani lexikográfia: a Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources elnevezésű nemzetközi szótári projekt (2015)
Journal Article
Uckelman, S. L., & Slíz, M. (2015). Többnyelvű névtani lexikográfia: a Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources elnevezésű nemzetközi szótári projekt. Névtani Értesítõ, 37, 203-220

The paper discusses the international project entitled Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources, initiated by European researchers. The authors enumerate the reasons for and the aims of the establishment of this online onomasticon; its cont... Read More about Többnyelvű névtani lexikográfia: a Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources elnevezésű nemzetközi szótári projekt.

Against Truth-Conditional Theories of Meaning: Three Lessons from the Language(s) of Fiction (2015)
Journal Article
Uckelman, S. L., & Chan, P. (2016). Against Truth-Conditional Theories of Meaning: Three Lessons from the Language(s) of Fiction. Res Philosophica, 2(93), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.11612/resphil.2016.2.93.4

Fictional discourse and fictional languages provide useful test cases for theories of meaning. In this paper, we argue against truth-conditional accounts of meaning on the basis of problems posed by language(s) of fiction. It is well-known how fictio... Read More about Against Truth-Conditional Theories of Meaning: Three Lessons from the Language(s) of Fiction.

Book Review: Articulating Medieval Logic by Terence Parsons (2015)
Journal Article
Uckelman, S. L. (2016). Book Review: Articulating Medieval Logic by Terence Parsons. Philosophical Quarterly, 66(263), 432-435. https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqv061

Medieval logic can often ‘seem to consist of a variety of unsystematic and disparate remarks, and it is not at all obvious whether or how they fit together’ (p. 1). In this ambitious book, Terence Parsons seeks to demonstrate how ‘medieval logic can... Read More about Book Review: Articulating Medieval Logic by Terence Parsons.

The Logic of Categorematic and Syncategorematic Infinity (2015)
Journal Article
Uckelman, S. L. (2015). The Logic of Categorematic and Syncategorematic Infinity. Synthese, 192(8), 2361-2377. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-015-0670-z

The medieval distinction between categorematic and syncategorematic words is usually given as the distinction between words which have signification or meaning in isolation from other words (such as nouns, pronouns, verbs) and those which have signif... Read More about The Logic of Categorematic and Syncategorematic Infinity.

Sit Verum Obligationes and Counterfactual Reasoning (2015)
Journal Article
Uckelman, S. L. (2015). Sit Verum Obligationes and Counterfactual Reasoning. Vivarium: A Journal for Medieval and Early-Modern Philosophy and Intellectual Life, 53(1), 90-113. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685349-05301005

In the early 1980s, Paul V. Spade advanced the thesis that obligational reasoning was counterfactual reasoning, based upon his interpretation of the obligationes of Walter Burley, Richard Kilvington, and Roger Swyneshed. Eleonore Stump in a series of... Read More about Sit Verum Obligationes and Counterfactual Reasoning.

A Medieval Epistemic Puzzle (2014)
Book Chapter
Uckelman, S. L. (2014). A Medieval Epistemic Puzzle. In Z. Christoff, P. Galeazzi, N. Gierasimczuk, A. Marcoci, & S. Smets (Eds.), LIRa Yearbook (301-316). Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation

A Curious Dialogical Logic and Its Composition Problem (2014)
Journal Article
Uckelman, S. L., Alama, J., & Knoks, A. (2014). A Curious Dialogical Logic and Its Composition Problem. Journal of Philosophical Logic, 43(6), 1065-1100. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10992-013-9307-1

Dialogue semantics for logic are two-player logic games between a Proponent who puts forward a logical formula φ as valid or true and an Opponent who disputes this. An advantage of the dialogical approach is that it is a uniform framework from which... Read More about A Curious Dialogical Logic and Its Composition Problem.

Reasoning about Obligations in Obligationes: A Formal Approach (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Uckelman, S. L. (2014). Reasoning about Obligations in Obligationes: A Formal Approach. In R. Goré, B. Kooi, & A. Kurucz (Eds.), Advances in modal logic. Volume 10 (553-568)

Despite the appearance of `obligation' in their name, medieval obligational dispu- tations between an Opponent and a Respondent seem to many to be unrelated to deontic logic. However, given that some of the example disputations found in me- dieval te... Read More about Reasoning about Obligations in Obligationes: A Formal Approach.