Philosopher

Walter Burley

Overview

Walter Burley (or Burleigh; c. 1275 – 1344/45) was an English scholastic philosopher and logician with at least 50 works attributed to him. He studied under Thomas Wilton and received his Master of Arts degree in 1301, and was a fellow of Merton College, Oxford until about 1310. He then spent sixteen years in Paris, becoming a fellow of the Sorbonne by 1324, before spending 17 years as a clerical courtier in England and Avignon. Burley disagreed with William of Ockham on a number of points concerning logic and natural philosophy. He was known as the Doctor Planus et Perspicuus.

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Philosophers who discussed Walter Burley

• Paul of Venice
• Jacopo Zabarella
• Thomas Wilton

Ideas Walter Burley discusses

• Physics (Aristotle)
• Propositional logic
• Aristotle
• Modal logic
• William of Ockham
• Natural philosophy
• Scholasticism
• Logic
• Martyr
• Truth function
• Sentences
• Material conditional
• Antecedent (logic)
• Consequent
• University of Paris
• Sum of Logic
• Thomas Wilton

Place in the tradition

Part of British philosophy.

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