Richard Billingham

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Richard Billingham , also Bullingham, (fl 1344-1361) was an English philosopher, theologian, and logician.

Billingham is traceable from about 1344 to 1361 as a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford University and received from the college the degrees of Magister artium and Bachelor in theology. He lectured and was at times sub-warden of the college.

Some of his treatises on logic are known, particularly the Speculum puerorum (also: Terminus est in quem), which was widely used in Italy. Further works are De consequentiis (On Conclusions), De significatio propositionis , De sensu composition et divisio and parts of commentary on sentences. Stephanie Weber-Schroth also lists: De suppositionibus, De ampliationibus, De appellationibus, De obligationibus, De insolubilibus, Conclusiones (collection of sophisms), Numquid scire sit credere, Utrum idem sortes et sortem-esse, Logica.

literature

  • EP Bos: Richard Billingham's Speculum Puerorum: Some Medieval Commentaries and Aristotle, Vivarium, Volume 45, 2007, pp. 360-373
  • Alfonso Maierù (ed.): Lo "Speculum puerorum sive terminus est in quem" by Riccardo Billingham, Centro Italiano di Studi sull'Alto Medioevo, 1970
  • LM de Rijk (ed.): Some 14th Century Tracts on the Probationes terminorum (Martin of Alnwick OFM, Richard Billingham, Edward Upton and others), Aristarium 3, Brepols 1982
  • Stephanie Weber-Schroth (ed.): Richard Billingham “De Consequentiis” with Toledo commentary, John Benjamin 2003
  • Robert Pasnau (Ed.), The Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy, Cambridge UP 2014

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