Translation of Thomas Bradwardine's 'Insolubilia'
I just found out that Stephen Read's edition of Thomas Bradwardine's Insolubilia is available. This is the first full translation of Bradwardine's work on paradoxes. (For more on insolubles, see here.) The edition has a long introduction by Stephen Read, comparing Bradwardine's theory both to medieval and contemporary approaches to semantic paradoxes. The text, which contains both the Latin and the English, is based on all thirteen known manuscripts. Highly recommended reading, not only for historians of logic, but for anyone interested in paradoxes.
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Yes, at long last it is out! :-)
The readership of this blog may also be interested in the fact that, much before this translation came out, there has been something of a small industry of papers on Bradwardine's solution to the Liar over the last years, mostly by Stephen himself but also by Greg Restall, Elia Zardini and me. In these papers we try (among other things) to make the relevance of Bradwardine's text more tangible to the modern reader.
There is also a whole book pretty much dedicated to Bradwardine on the Liar:
http://books.google.nl/books?id=uvVNCsZy2-wC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22Unity,+Truth+and+the+Liar&source=bl&ots=l0g5YUZn2Y&sig=yC4BGCJXkohSjj8IVnlAc_muNkw&hl=nl&ei=VrAMTLLZA5qSOPqM_d8C&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CBwQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false
The kink to the book didn't come out properly. But it's enough to google the title, "Unity, Truth and the Liar", and you'll get there!
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