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Richard Brinkley, OFM (fl. c. 1350) was an English logician and theologian of the middle of the fourteenth century. Among his works, only a Summa logicae and some fragments of theological works are known to us. Brinkley is a realist philosopher (he acknowledges real universals and genuine propositional significates), although his position is much more moderate than that of Burley or Wyclif, for example. Most of his criticisms in the Summa are directed against Ockham, although he agrees with him on some doctrinal issues, like for example the thesis of semantic subordination of written and spoken language to mental language. Brinkley’s philosophical orientation is characterized by the tension between the explicitly formulated methodological aim of segregating logic and metaphysics, and the philosophical necessity of considering them both.
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Edited Sections of Brinkley’s Works
Theological Works
Commentum super Sententias (= Abbreviatio Stephani Galdeti). (1990). Kaluza, Z. (Ed.), L’œuvre théologique de Richard Brinkley, O.F.M. Archives d’Histoire Doctrinale et Littéraire du Moyen Age 64:169–273, 226–239.
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Logical Works
De insolubilibus (= Summa logicae VI). (1969). An anonymous fourteenth century treatise on insolubles (Text and study, ed.: Spade, V. P.). Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies.
De obligationibus (= Summa logicae VII). (1995). Richard Brinkley’s obligationes. A late fourteenth century treatise on the logic of disputation (ed.: Spade V. P., Wilson, G. A.). Münster: Aschendorff.
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De significato propositionis (= Summa logicae, V.2). (1987). Richard Brinkley’s theory of sentential reference (ed.: and trans. Fitzgerald, M. J.). Leiden: Brill.
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Cesalli, L. (2018). Richard Brinkley. In: Lagerlund, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1151-5_436-2
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