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SUMMARY:Peter Abaelard and the Development of Logic - Prof. Christopher Ma
 rtin\, Auckland University\, New Zealand (Leverhulme Visiting Professor of
  Philosophy)
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CONTACT:Xinyi Liu
DESCRIPTION:Peter Abaelard is best known today as a man for his disastrous
  affair with Heloise\, and as a philosopher for his anti-realist theory of
  universals. My investigations of the development of logic in the twelfth 
 century have concentrated\, however\, on his previously ignored contributi
 on to the theory of argumentation. I will argue in my presentation that in
  this field Abaelard was one of the truly great philosophers and someone w
 hose work compares with that of Aristotle and Frege. Abaelard revolutionis
 ed thinking about language and logic at the beginning of the twelfth centu
 ry but\, as we will see\, his theory unfortunately contained the seeds of 
 its own destruction.
LOCATION:Entertaining Room\, Darwin College
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