1340 – 1400
Peter of Mantua (d. 1399/1400) was a late medieval Italian logician and natural philosopher associated with the University of Bologna and Padua. He is best known for his work on logic, particularly his Logica, which engaged with problems of consequence, obligations, and epistemic puzzles in the tradition of terminist logic.
Authored the Logica, an influential late-medieval treatise on logic
Contributed to theories of consequence and obligational disputation
Engaged with epistemic and semantic puzzles anticipating later Gettier-style concerns
Taught at major Italian universities including Bologna and Padua
Advanced the terminist tradition of logical analysis