b. 1947
Stephen Read is a British philosopher and logician at the University of St Andrews, specializing in the history of medieval logic and the philosophy of logic. He is known for his foundational work on relevance logic and for recovering and interpreting the logical theories of medieval thinkers such as John Buridan and William of Ockham. His scholarship bridges formal logic and its medieval antecedents, illuminating continuities between scholastic and contemporary logical theory.
Authored Relevant Logic: A Philosophical Examination of Inference (1988), a foundational text in relevance logic
Translated and critically edited John Buridan's Treatise on Consequences, recovering a major medieval logical work
Advanced scholarship on truth and the liar paradox, drawing on both formal and medieval resources
Analyzed medieval theories of consequence and their relation to modern proof theory
Connected scholastic logical vocabulary (genus, species, containment) to contemporary analytic frameworks
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