Gyula Klima
Professor of Philosophy
(CV: DOC; PDF)(List of Publications)
Philosophy, Fordham University 
109 Collins Hall
Office: (718) 817-3286
E-mail: klima@fordham.edu

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European mirror site: http://www.phil-inst.hu/~gyula/
Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics

Papers
  1. Quine, Wyman, and Buridan: Three Approaches to Ontological Commitment
  2. The Essentialist Nominalism of John Buridan
  3. John Buridan and the Force/Content Distinction
  4. John Buridan on the Acquisition of Simple Substantial Concepts
  5. The Medieval Problem of Universals in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  6. Existence and Reference in Medieval Logic
  7. Ontological Alternatives vs. Alternative Semantics
  8. Ancilla Theologiae vs. Domina Philosophorum: St. Thomas Aquinas, Latin Averroism and the Autonomy of Philosophy
  9. Approaching Natural Language Via Mediaeval Logic
  10. Aquinas' Theory of the Copula
  11. Natural Necessity and Eucharistic Theology in the Late 13th Century
  12. Aquinas on One and Many
  13. St. Anselm's Proof
  14. Buridan's Logic and the Ontology of Modes
  15. Thomas of Sutton on the Nature of the Intellective Soul and the Thomistic Theory of Being

Discussion
  1. "Intentional Transfer in Averroes, Indifference of Nature in Avicenna, and the Issue of the Representationalism of Aquinas" comments on Richard Taylor’s and Max Herrera’s papers
  2. "Putting Skeptics in Their Place vs. Stopping Them in Their Tracks", comments by Giorgio Pini and John Greco, and my replies
  3. Reply (PDF) to Tony Roark on “Tarski and Klima: Conceptual Closure in Anselm’s Proof” (PDF)
  4. Contemporary 'Essentialism' vs. Aristotelian Essentialism
  5. Comments on Klima, Contemporary "Essentialism" vs. Aristotelian Essentialism, by Michael Kremer 
  6. Reply to Michael Kremer
  7. "Nulla virtus cognoscitiva circa proprium obiectum decipitur" comments on Robert Pasnau: "The Identity of Knower and Known"
  8. Review of Anthony Kenny: Aquinas on Mind
  9. Comments on Peter King: "The Failure of Ockham's Nominalism"; "Is Ockham off the hook?"
  10. Reply to David Burrell's comments on "Man = Body + Soul: Aquinas's Arithmetic of Human Nature"
  11. "What can a scholastic do in the 21st century?"
  12. Comments on Jack Zupko: "Philosophy Among the Artistae : A Late-Medieval Picture of the Limits of Rational Inquiry"
  13. Semantic Complexity and Syntactic Simplicity in Ockham's Mental Language comments on Yiwei Zheng: Ockham's Connotation Theory and Ontological Elimination
  14. On whether id quo nihil maius cogitari potest is in the intellect

Readings
  1. Yale Lectures 
  2. Cajetanus: De Nominum Analogia (scanned and proofread by Josh Hochschild; if you notice any remaining errors, please bring them to my attention and I'll make the corrections)
  3. Josh Hochschild: “The Semantics of Analogy According to Thomas De Vio Cajetan’s De Nominum Analogia”(containing an English translation of Cajetan’s work)
  4. Mediaeval Logic and Philosophy
  5. C.S. Lewis Society of California
  6. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  7. Aquinas: On the Principles of Nature
  8. Aquinas: On Being and Essence
  9. Episteme Links
  10. Corpus Thomisticum
  11. Greg Klima: Anselm on Free Will (yes, he is my son: ‘Gergely’ is Hungarian for ‘Gregory’)

2008 spring classes

 

PHRU 1100-016 Philosophical Ethics TF 2:30-3:45, KE116

PHRU 1000-06/08 Philosophy of Human Nature 06/08 TWF 10:30-11:20/11:30-12:20, KE205

Work in progress

“The Distinction of Substance and Accident and the Doctrine of the Analogy of Being”, XIIth International Congress of Medieval Philosophy, 16-22 September 2007, Palermo, Italy

“Via Antiqua vs. Via Moderna Semantics: Two Ways of Constructing Semantic Theory”, 1st GPMR Workshop on Logic and Semantics: Medieval Logic and Modern Applied Logic, Reinische Friedrich Wilhelms Universität Bonn, Germany, 2007

“Aquinas vs. Buridan on Essence and Existence”, 5th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, January 15, 2007, Honolulu, HI

“Ens multipliciter dicitur: the semantics and metaphysics of being in St. Thomas Aquinas” for the 4th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, HI, January 15, 2006

“Logic without Truth: John Buridan on the Liar”, forthcoming in: Shahid Rahman (ed.), Read’s Liar

“The "Grammar" of 'God' and 'Being'”, for the 26th Annual Philosophy of Religion Conference, Claremont, CA, 11-12 February 2005