The Philosopher
Walter Burley
The face
The background
- Nationality:
- English
- Schools:
- Scholasticism
- Branchs:
- Logic, Natural Philosophy, Metaphysics
- Period:
- Scholasticism
The synopsis
Walter Burley (or Burleigh; c. 1275 – 1344/45) was an English scholastic philosopher and logician, credited with at least 50 works. He studied under Thomas Wilton, earning his Master of Arts degree in 1301, and was a fellow at Merton College, Oxford, until around 1310. Burley then spent sixteen years in Paris, becoming a fellow of the Sorbonne by 1324. Following his time in Paris, he spent 17 years as a clerical courtier in England and Avignon. A significant aspect of his career was his philosophical divergence from William of Ockham on matters of logic and natural philosophy. Burley's contributions to logic included recognizing the priority of the propositional calculus over term logic and his stance on the material conditional, which aligned with modern views. He was known for his commentaries on Aristotle's works, particularly his *Physics*. His major work, *De Puritate Artis Logicae*, explored truth conditions for complex sentences and rules of inference. He was famously known as the 'Doctor Planus et Perspicuus'.
The works
De intensione et remissione formarum
De Puritate Artis Logicae Tractatus Longior, with a revised edition of the Tractatus Brevior
On the Purity of the Art of Logic. The Shorter and Longer Treatises
De formis
Quaestiones super librum Posteriorum
Questions on the De anima of Aristotle
In physicam Aristotelis expositio et quaestiones
Super artem veterem
Commentarium in Aristotelis De Anima L.III
De Primo et ultimo instanti
Expositio in libros octo de physico auditu
De Puritate Artis Logicae
In Aristotelis Perihermenias
De consequentiis
De exclusivis
De exceptivis
De suppositionibus
De obligationibus
De ente
De qualitatibus
Expositio super libros De Anima
Tractatus de formis
Tractatus de universalibus