b. 1956
Gyula Klima is a contemporary Hungarian-American philosopher and medieval scholar at Fordham University, specializing in medieval logic, semantics, and metaphysics. He is among the foremost experts on John Buridan and has worked extensively on reconciling medieval Aristotelian-Scholastic philosophy with contemporary analytic philosophy. His research bridges the history of philosophy and systematic philosophy, particularly in the philosophy of language and ontology.
Leading scholarly authority on John Buridan's logic and metaphysics
Produced the definitive English translation of Buridan's Summulae de Dialectica
Advanced the project of integrating medieval terminist logic into contemporary analytic philosophy
Developed systematic comparisons between Scholastic and analytic approaches to universals and predication
Contributed to revival of serious philosophical engagement with Thomistic metaphysics in analytic contexts
Boethius' observations on genus and species may be the historical precursor of the containment principle (Co)