Gustavo Fernandez Walker
About Gustavo Fernandez Walker
I studied Philosophy at the Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina), where I graduated as professor specialized in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy. I later completed a PhD in Classical Philology and Hermenutics of the Philosophical Text, a joint supervision by the Università del Salento (Italy) and the Universidad Nacional de San Martín (Argentina); and a PhD in Medieval Philosophy at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. I am interested in the way later medieval scholars reflected on their own scientific endeavors, in particular through the discussion of notions such as "doubt" (dubitatio), "problem" (problema), "probable" (probabile), all key concepts of the art of dialectic, read through the lens of the Latin translation of Aristotle's Topics. In fact, words as dubitare, dubitatio and dubia can be found in all kinds of philosophical treatises since Antiquity, to the point that the very practice of philosophy is commonly associated with the act of doubting. However, although there are many interesting studies devoted to some particular aspect of this notion (doubt as opposed to faith; doubt as opposed to certitude; etc.) there seems to be no comprehensive analysis of what later medieval authors understood as the act of doubting itself, and its proper place within the overall scope of philosophy. My contention is that the medieval reception of Aristotle's Topics offers a unique understanding of the perception that medieval scholars had of their own practice of philosophy, understood as the actual engagement in dialectic reasoning, i.e. a kind of reasoning which values doubt as a heuristic tool for philosophical investigation. Since most of the commentaries on Aristotle's Topics from the 13th to the 15th century remain unedited, the goal of the TOPICA project here at Gothenburg University is to produce critical editions of some of those commentaries, and offer a reading of Aristotelian logic and its medieval reception as a set of pragmatic perspectives into different aspects or theoretical moments of the act of philosophical argumentation.
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Ne infidelis transeat ex hac vita. Some Remarks on the Notion of Tolerance and Its Applicability to Abelardian
Hermeneutics
Natalia Jakubecki, Gustavo Fernandez Walker
Tolerance and Concepts of Otherness in Medieval Philosophy: Acts of the XXI Annual Colloquium of the Société Internationale pour l’Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale, Maynooth, 9–12 September 2015 / Michael William Dunne, Susan Gottlöber (eds) - 2022 -
Anonymus Cantabrigiensis: Commentarium in Sophisticos Elenchos Aristotelis edited by Sten
Ebbesen
Gustavo Fernandez Walker
Aestimatio. Critical Reviews in the History of Science - 2021 -
Disagreement in Aristotle's Topics and its Latin Medieval
reception
Ana Maria Mora-Márquez, Gustavo Fernandez Walker
Reason to Dissent. Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on Argumentation, Volume III / Catarina Dutilh Novaes, Henrike Jansen, Jan Albert van Laar and Bart Verheij, (eds.) - 2020 -
A 15th-Century Handbook on Aristotelian Logic: The Anonymous Logica
“Quadrupliciter”
Gustavo Fernandez Walker
Bulletin de philosophie médiévale - 2020 -
Heymerico de Campo lector de Aristóteles: la noción de problema dialéctico en el Compendium Logicae y el Tractatus
Problematicus
Gustavo Fernandez Walker
Temas Medievales - 2018 -
Dialectical Problems in Paris and Cologne. Commentaries on Topics
I.11
Gustavo Fernandez Walker
Cahiers de l'Institut du Moyen-âge Grec et Latin - 2017 -
A New Source of Nicholas of Autrecourt’s Quaestio: The Anonymous Tractatus de sex
inconvenientibus
Gustavo Fernandez Walker
Bulletin de philosophie médiévale - 2013