Abstract
Richard Brinkley, OFM (fl. c. 1350) was an English logician and theologian of the middle of the fourteenth century. Among his works, only a Summa logicae and some fragments of theological works are known to us. Brinkley is a realist philosopher (he acknowledges real universals and genuine propositional significates) although his position is much more moderate than that of Burley or Wyclif, for example. Most of his criticisms in the Summa are directed against Ockham, although he agrees with him on some doctrinal issues, like for example the thesis of semantic subordination of written and spoken language to mental language. Brinkley’s philosophical orientation is characterized by the tension between the explicitly formulated methodological aim of segregating logic and metaphysics, and the philosophical necessity of considering them both.
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Theological Works
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Logical Works
(1969) De insolubilibus (= Summa logicae VI), ed. Spade VP. An anonymous fourteenth century treatise on insolubles. Text and study. Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto
(1987) De significato propositionis (= Summa logicae, V.2), ed. and trans. Fitzgerald MJ. Richard Brinkley’s theory of sentential reference. Brill, Leiden
(1995) De obligationibus (= Summa logicae VII), ed. Spade VP. Wilson GA. Richard Brinkley’s obligationes. A late fourteenth century treatise on the logic of disputation. Aschendorff, Münster
(2004) De propositione in genere (= Summa logicae, V.1), ed. Cesalli L. Richard Brinkley O.F.M. De propositione (Summa logicae V.1, 1–5). Archives d’Histoire Doctrinale et Littéraire du Moyen Age 71:203–254
(2008) De universalibus (= Summa logicae II), ed. Cesalli L. Richard Brinkley contra dialecticae haereticos (Summa logicae, II). Une conception métaphysico-logique de l’universel. Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale 19:277–333
(A complete edition of the Summa logicae is prepared by Cesalli L and Lonfat J.)
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Cesalli, L. (2011). Richard Brinkley. In: Lagerlund, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9729-4_436
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