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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. (online). John Eliot's Logick Primer: A bilingual English-Massachusett logic textbook. History and Philosophy of Logic, 45(3), 278-301. 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.

‘Eternal convivencia’: From Madrid’s Painters of Africa to the School of Tetouan (2023)
Journal Article
Hopkins, C. (2023). ‘Eternal convivencia’: From Madrid’s Painters of Africa to the School of Tetouan. World Art, 13(1), 29-61. https://doi.org/10.1080/21500894.2022.2150886

The annual Pintores de África exhibitions, organised by Franco’s colonial administration in mid-twentieth-century Madrid, offered audiences a colourful feast of artistic representations of Spain’s colonial territories in Africa, and of Spain’s archit... Read More about ‘Eternal convivencia’: From Madrid’s Painters of Africa to the School of Tetouan.

"Cicero the philosopher at work: the genesis of De Officiis III" (2023)
Book Chapter
Gilbert, N. (2023). "Cicero the philosopher at work: the genesis of De Officiis III". In N. Gilbert, M. Graver, & S. McConnell (Eds.), Power and Persuasion in Cicero's Philosophy (97-116). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009170352.007

In the chapter I argue that we should set aside the Quellenforschung arguments of Lefèvre and Brunt and Atkins and others and look at what Cicero is up to in book 3, where he aims to fill in a gap left by Panaetius and not followed up by Posidonius.... Read More about "Cicero the philosopher at work: the genesis of De Officiis III".

Professor Sir Richard W. Southern (1912-2001) (2022)
Book Chapter
Gasper, G. E. (2022). Professor Sir Richard W. Southern (1912-2001). In S. Niskanen, & J. Willoughby (Eds.), Routledge Medieval Encyclopedia Online. Routledge

Sir Richard Southern is famous for his biographies of St Anselm of Canterbury and Robert Grosseteste, for his long meditation on medieval universities, humanism, and scholasticism, his early and still influential The Making of the Middle Ages, a surv... Read More about Professor Sir Richard W. Southern (1912-2001).

Transformed ecologies and transformational saints: Exploring new pilgrimage routes in North East England (2022)
Journal Article
Miles‐Watson, J. (2022). Transformed ecologies and transformational saints: Exploring new pilgrimage routes in North East England. The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 33(3), 412-427. https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.12455

County Durham in the UK has witnessed dramatic social and environmental shifts over the past 50 years, yet Durham Cathedral has stood at the heart of the region, seemingly solid, unchanging and eternal. It is frequently narrated as a prestigious jewe... Read More about Transformed ecologies and transformational saints: Exploring new pilgrimage routes in North East England.

Damascien (Johannes Damascenus). (2022)
Book Chapter
Gasper, G. E. (2023). Damascien (Johannes Damascenus). In R. Newhauser, V. Gillespie, J. Rosenfeld, & K. Walter (Eds.), The Chaucer Encyclopedia. Wiley

From the Gods' Mountains to the Messiah's Glade: Christian Landscapes of Africa and Asia (2022)
Book Chapter
Miles-Watson, J., & Quiroz, S. (2022). From the Gods' Mountains to the Messiah's Glade: Christian Landscapes of Africa and Asia. In J. Bielo, & A. Ron (Eds.), Landscapes of Christianity: Destination, Temporality, Transformation. Bloomsbury Academic

How do Christians make relationships with land central to their faith? How have the realities of materiality, geography, and ecology shaped Christian territories of belonging and theologies of territory? What social-economic-political conditions surr... Read More about From the Gods' Mountains to the Messiah's Glade: Christian Landscapes of Africa and Asia.

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”. Journal of Knowledge Structures & Systems, 3(2), 48-56

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”.

A Marvellous Sign and A Fiery Globe: A Medieval English Report of Ball Lightning (2022)
Journal Article
Gasper, G. E., & Tanner, B. K. (2022). A Marvellous Sign and A Fiery Globe: A Medieval English Report of Ball Lightning. Weather, 77(7), 232-234. https://doi.org/10.1002/wea.4144

We describe an entry in a twelfth century monastic chronicle, compiled and composed by Gervase of Canterbury (c. 1145–c. 1210), which gives a credible description of ball lightning. It predates the earliest known report of the phenomenon from England... Read More about A Marvellous Sign and A Fiery Globe: A Medieval English Report of Ball Lightning.