Peter King is a contemporary philosopher and historian of medieval philosophy at the University of Toronto, specializing in medieval logic, metaphysics, and epistemology. He is known for his work on Abelard, Boethius, and the transmission of ancient logical and metaphysical concepts into the medieval tradition. His scholarship traces how medieval thinkers developed theories of universals, inference, and epistemic probability from late antique sources.
Leading scholar on Peter Abelard's logic and metaphysics
Reconstructed medieval probabilism and its role in pre-modern epistemology
Traced Boethian transmission of Porphyrian universal theory into Scholasticism
Contributed foundational articles on medieval philosophy to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Advanced study of medieval theories of mental language and cognition
Boethius' observations on genus and species may be the historical precursor of the containment principle (Co)