William of Heytesbury
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William Heytesbury[1] (a. 1313 – 1372/1373), philosopher and logician, is best known as one of the Oxford Calculators of Merton College, where he was a fellow by 1330. In his work he applied logical techniques to the problems of divisibility, the continuum, and kinematics. His magnum opus was the Regulae solvendi sophismata ("Rules for Solving Sophisms"), written c. 1335.
He was Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 1371 until 1372.
[edit] References
- Longeway, John (2003) "William Heytesbury", in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
[edit] Further reading
- Sylla, Edith (1982) "The Oxford Calculators", in Kretzmann, Kenny & Pinborg (edd.), The Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy
- Murdoch, John (1982) "Infinity and Continuity", in Kretzmann, Kenny & Pinborg (edd.), The Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy
[edit] Notes
- ^ Known as Gugliemus Hentisberus or Tisberus.
