Revisiting Medieval Dialectics

Ana María Mora-Márquez holds a PhD in Philosophy from University Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne. Since February 2025 she works as senior lecturer in Theoretical Philosophy at Lund University. Since 2016 she has been the principal investigator of two research projects: one on pragmatic approaches to Aristotelian dialectics (2016—2022, KAW) and another one on socio-epistemic approaches to Aristotelian science (2022-2027, KAW). She has published extensively on logic and epistemology in the Aristotelian tradition and is the author of The Thirteenth-Century Notion of Signification. The Discussions and Their Sources and Development (Brill, 2015).Gustavo Fernández Walker holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina) and a PhD in Classical Philology from the University of Salerno (Italy) and the University of San Martín (Argentina). From 2017 he has been a postdoc at the University of Gothenburg, working in projects about medieval logic and dialectics. He is the editor of Robert Kilwardby’s commentary on the Topics (forthcoming).

• Introduction.- Chapter 1. Laura Castelli (Munich/Cambridge): Alexander of Aphrodisias on Aristotle’s Topics.- Chapter 2. Fosca Mariani Zini (Lille): Boethius’ Topics.- Chapter 3. Barbara Bartocci (Geneva): Latin Medievals on Dialectica Docens.- Chapter 4. Gustavo Fernández Walker (Gothenburg): Premises and Problems in Medieval Dialectics.- Chapter 5. Ana María Mora-Márquez (Gothenburg): The Predicable of the Accident. The Metaphysics of Argumentation.- Chapter 6. Rodrigo Guerizoli (Rio de Janeiro): Quidditative and Causal Definitions in John Buridan.- Chapter 7. Julie Brumberg-Chaumont (CNRS): Disputational Theories and Practices During the 13th Century.- Chapter 8. Alexander Lamprakis (Würtzburg): Aristotle’s Topics in the Arabic Tradition.- Chapter 9. Yehuda Halper (Ramat Gan): The Hebrew Tradition of Aristotelian Dialectics.