CURRICULUM VITAE

 

1. Name:

Gyula Klima

2. Contact:

Department of Philosophy,
Fordham University,
441 E. Fordham road
New York, NY 10458
Phone: (718) 817-3286
Fax: (914) 355-4026 
E-mail: klima@fordham.edu
Web: http://faculty.fordham.edu/klima

3. Education:

MA 1982, Ph.D. 1986, Eötvös Lóránd University, Budapest

4. Positions held:

1982, Research Assistant, Inst. of Philosophy, Hungarian Academy
1986, Research Fellow, Institute of Philosophy, Hungarian Academy
1989-1990, 1991, Visiting Fellow, Academy of Finland
1990, Gifford Visiting Fellow, University of St. Andrews, Scotland
1991, Visiting Fellow, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
1991-92, Visiting Lecturer, Yale University
1992-95, Assistant Professor, Yale University
1993-97 Senior Research Fellow, Inst. of Philosophy, Hung. Acad.
1994-95, Morse Fellow, Yale University
1995-99 Assoc. Professor, Philosophy, University of Notre Dame
1999-2003 Associate Professor, Philosophy, Fordham University
2002-2003 ACLS Fellow/UCLA Visiting Scholar
2003 - Professor, Philosophy, Fordham University 
2009 - Doctor of the Hungarian Academy

5. Major grants:

1994-95 Morse Fellowship, Yale University, $40,000
1995-97 NEH grant for “Buridan’s Summulae” , YUP, $50,000
2002-2003 ACLS, “John Buridan”, OUP, $40,000
2005: Earhart Foundation, “Medieval Philosophy”, $21,000
2009-2012 NEH, “Buridan’s Questions on the Soul”, $195,000
2012-2013 NEH “Buridan’s Questions on the Soul”, $55,000

6. Professional memberships:

American Catholic Philosophical Association (exec. comm. 2006)
American Philosophical Association (program comm. 2006)
Hungarian Philosophical Association
Society for Christian Philosophers (program comm. 2006)
Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics (director)
Société Internationale pour l’Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale
Society for Mediaeval and Renaissance Philosophy

Teaching:

AOS: medieval philosophy, philosophical and formal semantics, metaphysics, philosophy of mind and language (Anselm, Aquinas, Ockham, Buridan, Frege, Russell, Tarski, Quine, Kripke, etc.)
AOC: ancient philosophy, medieval philosophy, early modern philosophy, analytic philosophy, philosophy of mind and language

Courses taught: 1989-90 “Semantics and Ontology in Medieval Philosophy”, Dept. of Systematic Theology of the University of Helsinki; “Introduction to the History of Western Thought”, Dept. of Political Sciences of the University of Helsinki (complete lecture courses in English); “Innovations in Ontology and Semantics in Late-Medieval Philosophy”, part of a lecture course on medieval philosophy with Dr. J. Haldane and Dr. S. L. Read, Dept. of Logic and Metaphysics, University of St. Andrews (five classes). Several courses in ancient and medieval philosophy, history of early modern philosophy, philosophical semantics and metaphysics at Yale, 1991-94, and at Notre Dame, 1995-1999, 2 courses per semester, including the following graduate seminars: “Aquinas on Being and Essence” (Yale); “Philosophical Logic in a Historical Perspective” (Yale); “John Buridan’s Theory of Meaning and Reference” (Yale); “Saint Thomas Aquinas’ Philosophy of Mind” (Yale); “Aquinas against the Averroists” (Notre Dame); “Aquinas’ Metaphysics of Value” (Notre Dame); “Nominalist and Realist Readings of the Categories”, (Notre Dame); “Aquinas on Mind” (Notre Dame); Fordham University: 1999-2007, undergrad.: “Philosophy of Human Nature”, “Philosophical Ethics”, “Medieval Philosophy”, “Four Medieval Thinkers”, “Introduction to Logic”, “Introduction to Symbolic Logic”; grad.: “Introduction to St. Augustine”, “Medieval Logic and Metaphysics”, “Aquinas on Being and Essence”; “Symbolic Logic”; “Introduction to Aquinas”; “Nominalism”; “Intentionality”; CUNY Graduate Center: “Language, Logic and Metaphysics in Medieval Philosophy” (with Prof. Alex Orenstein), “Aquinas on Mind” (with Prof. Peter Simpson)

Research:

Main field of interest: medieval philosophy, semantics, metaphysics, philosophy of mind and language, comparative studies of medieval and modern theories

Papers presented at the following meetings:

2016, “Thought Transplants, Demons and Modalities”, January 10, 2016, Fourteenth Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities, Honolulu, HI.

2015, “The Metaphysics of Habits in John Buridan”, October 14-16, 2015, Habitus in Latin Medieval Philosophy, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, France.

2015, “There is More Than One Way to Slice a Cake: Comments on Andrew Arlig’s Paper”, October 10, 2015, Hylomorphism and Mereology, SMLM session at the ACPA, Boston, MA.

2015, “Intentionality in Modern and Medieval Philosophies of Mind”, January 13, 2015, Thirteenth Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities, Honolulu, HI.

2014, “The Metaphysics of Habits in John Buridan”, SAGP/SSIPS Meeting, October 25, 2014, Fordham University, New York, NY

2014, “The Problem of ‘Gappy Existence’ in Aquinas’ Metaphysics and Theology”, ACPA Meeting, October 11, 2014, Washington DC

2014, “Buridan on Sensory Awareness”, 9th Montreal Workshop on Nominalism: First Person and Reflexivity in Medieval Philosophy, May 2-3, 2012, Université du Québec ŕ Montréal

2014, “The Problem of ‘Gappy Existence’ in Aquinas’ Metaphysics and Theology”, January 13, 2014, Twelfth Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities, Honolulu, HI

2013, “Intentions, Species, Sensations: What Can We Learn from John Buridan (ca. 1300-1362) About Sensory Awareness?” January 14, 2013, Eleventh Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities, Honolulu, HI.

2012, “The Rises and Falls of Analysis and Metaphysics: Comments on ‘An Argument for Hylomorphism or Theism (But Not Both)’ by Travis Dumsday”, ACPA Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, November 3, 2012.

2012, “The Trivia of Hylomorphism, Dualism and Materialism: Some Pointers from Buridan and Others”, Questions on the Soul by John Buridan and Others, October 26, 2012, Fordham University, New York, NY.

2012, “Nominalist and Realist Theories of the Universal Representation of Singulars”, Theory of Universals in the XIV Century, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy, 2012, September 3-5.

2012, “The Intentional Reception of Sensible Forms and Sensation in Aquinas and Buridan”, XIIIth International Congress of Medieval Philosophy, SIEPM, August, 21, 2012, Freising, Germany

2012, (with Peter Sobol) “Textual issues in Book 2”, John Buridan’s Questions on Aristotle’s De Anima (On the Soul): A Critical Edition with an Annotated Translation Fourth Workshop, University of Wisconsin, Madison, June 28-30, 2012

2012, “Buridan’s Virtual Chicken vs. Aquinas’ Real Tuna”, 10th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, January 10, 2012, Honolulu, HI

2011, (with Peter Sobol) “Textual issues in Book 2”, John Buridan’s Questions on Aristotle’s De Anima (On the Soul): A Critical Edition with an Annotated Translation Third Workshop, University of Winnipeg, July 25-27, 2011

2011, “The Edition (and English translation) of John Buridan’s Commentary on Aristotle’s De anima (secundum ultimam lecturam)”, Walter Burley, John Buridan and their Contemporaries at Paris in the First Half of the Fourteenth Century Three Edition Projects, Nijmegen, 14–16 April 2011

2011, “Meanings Ain’t in Aquinas’ Head: The ‘Hyper-Externalism’ of Thomas Aquinas”, 9th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, January 9, 2011, Honolulu, HI

2010, “Mental Representations and Concepts in Medieval Philosophy”, Varieties of Cognitive Theory in the Later Middle Ages: Towards A Status Quaestionis, Hoger Instituut voor Wijsbegeerte, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, February 18-20, Leuven, Belgium

2010, “Demon Skepticism and Concept Identity”, 8th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, January 15, 2010, Honolulu, HI

2009, “The Metaphysical Import of Natural Language Analysis: Peter of Spain’s Realism vs. John Buridan’s Nominalism” SIEPM session at the Eastern APA convention, December 29, 2009, New York, Marriott.

2009, “Indifference vs. Universality of Mental Representation in Aquinas, Scotus, Ockham, and Buridan”, Later Medieval Perspectives on Intentionality, University of Parma, Parma, Italy, June, 10-12, 2009

2009: “Demon Skepticism and Concept Identity in a Nominalist vs. a Realist Framework”; Montreal Workshop on Nominalism: Skepticism, UQAM, Montreal, May 8-9, 2009.

2009: “Nominalism as the Adverbialization of Semantics: the case of John Buridan vs. Peter of Spain”, The 12th E. A. Moody Workshop in Medieval Philosophy: The Logic of Peter of Spain, UCLA Philosophy Department, Los Angeles, March 7, 2009.

2009: “Three Myths of Intentionality vs. Some Medieval Philosophers”, 7th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, January 9, 2009, Honolulu, HI

2008: “Intentionality and Mental Content in Aquinas, Ockham, and Buridan”, Workshop: John Buridan’s Question Commentary on Aristotle’s De Anima, February 9, 2008, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON

2008: “Degrees of Externalism in the Theories of Mental Representation of Aquinas, Ockham, and Buridan”, 6th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, January 13, 2008, Honolulu, HI

2007: “Aquinas vs. Buridan on the Immateriality of the Intellective Soul”, The Unity and Immateriality of Soul in Aristotle, October 12-14, 2007, University of Western Ontario

London, ON

2007: “The Distinction of Substance and Accident and the Doctrine of the Analogy of Being”, XIIth International Congress of Medieval Philosophy, 16-22 September 2007, Palermo, Italy

2007: “Aquinas vs. Buridan on Essence and Existence”, 5th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, January 15, 2007, Honolulu, HI

2006: “Ens multipliciter dicitur: The Semantics and Metaphysics of Being in Aquinas”, 4th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, January 13, 2006, Honolulu, HI

2005: “Thomas Sutton on Individuation”, ACPA annual meeting, October 29, 2005, University of Notre Dame.

2005: “The Demonic Temptations of Medieval Nominalism. Mental Representation and ‘Demon Skepticism’”, 3rd Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, January 15, 2005, Honolulu, HI

2004: “Tradition and Innovation in Medieval Theories of Mental Representation”, ACPA annual meeting, November 6, 2004, Miami, FL

2004: “Thomistic ‘Monism’ vs. Cartesian ‘Dualism’”, International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI) Ninth International Conference, Workshop: Descartes’ Concept of a Human Being, his Dualism, and his Ethics, August 3, 2004, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.

2004: “The Universality of Logic and the Primacy of Mental Language in the Nominalist Philosophy of Logic of John Buridan”, 2nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, January 8 - January 11, 2004, Honolulu, HI (January 10)

2002: “John Buridan and the Force/Content Distinction”, 14th European Symposium on Logic and Semantics, June 11-15, 2002, Rome, Italy

2002: “Thomas Sutton vs. Henry of Ghent on the Analogy of Being”, International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 2 - 5, 2002, Kalamazoo, MI

2001: “Aquinas’ Proofs of the Immateriality of the Intellect from the Universality of Human Thought”, ACPA annual meeting, November 10, Albany, NY

2000: “Whether id quo nihil maius cogitari potest is in the Understanding”, ACPA annual meeting, November 4, 2000, Dallas, TX.

1997: “Ancilla Theologiae vs Domina Philosophorum: St. Thomas Aquinas, Latin Averroism and the Autonomy of Philosophy”, 10th International Congress of Medieval Philosophy, S.I.E.P.M., August 25, 1997, Erfurt, Germany

1990: “‘Debeo tibi equum’: A Reconstruction of Buridan’s Treatment of the Sophisma”, 9th European Symposium for Medieval Logic and Semantics, St. Andrews, Scotland

1988: “‘Socrates est species’: Logic, Metaphysics and Psychology in St. Thomas Aquinas’ Treatment of a Paralogism”, 8th European Symposium for Medieval Logic and Semantics, Freiburg-im-Breisgau, B.R.D.

1987: “Understanding Matters from a Logical Angle: Logical Aspects of Understanding”, International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science - Division of Logic and Methodology of Science Congress, Moscow, U.S.S.R.

1987: “On Being and Essence in St. Thomas Aquinas’s Metaphysics and Philosophy of Science”, 8th International Congress of Medieval Philosophy, S.I.E.P.M., Helsinki, Finland

1986: “Modernorum ‘Logica Modernorum’”, Logic Colloquium ‘86, Hull, England

Invited talks:

2016, “Ockham’s Rules of Supposition as a Heuristic of Hermeneutics
Comments on Milo Crimi’s Paper”, APA Pacific Meeting, March 30 – April 3, 2016, San Francisco, CA.

2015, “Intentionality”, September 18, UQUAM, Montreal, Canada.

2014, "Aquinas’ real distinction and its role in a causal proof of God's existence" - Auditorium of the Pontifical Faculty of Theology, 19 May, Wroclaw, Poland

2014, "Universality and Immateriality" - Aula Leopoldina of the University of Wroclaw (Main Building), 20 May, Wroclaw, Poland

2014, "Cross-cultural Understanding" - The White Stork Synagogue, 21 May, Wroclaw, Poland

2013, “Different Ways of Life, Different Conceptual Schemes, and Cross-Cultural Understanding”, August 6, 23rd World Congress of Philosophy, Athens, Greece

2013, "Being and Cognition: Medieval Theories of Beings of Reason", July 12, Philosophy Department, University of Bari, Italy

2013, invited discussant at the workshop “On What There Was”, July 10-11, Philosophy Department, University of Bari, Italy

2013, invited discussant at the 8th Montreal Workshop on Nominalism: The Ontology of Material Objects in Medieval Philosophy, May 3-4, Université du Québec ŕ Montréal

2012, “The Intentional Reception of Sensible Forms and Sensation in Aquinas and Buridan”, UCLA Philosophy Department, November 6, 2012, Los Angeles, CA

2012: “Existential Import and Ontological Commitment in Medieval Logic”, Department of Philosophy, Qsinghua University, June 16, 2012, Beijing, China

2012: “Realism vs. Nominalism in Medieval Logic and Metaphysics”, Department of Philosophy, Zhejiang University, June 11, 2012, Hangzhou, China

2012: “Formal Logic, Medieval Logic and Natural Logic”, Zhejiang Provincial Logic Association, Zhejiang University, June 8, 2012, Hangzhou, China

2012: “Semantic Content in Aquinas and Ockham”, Linguistic content: history of the philosophy of language, UWO, London, ON, May 31, 2012.

2012: “Singularity, Indifference and Universality in Causation and Mental Representation (Aquinas, Scotus, Ockham, Buridan and Sutton)” The Problem of Universals in the 13th Century, UQUAM, Montreal, May 5, 2012.

2011: “Whatever Happened to Efficient Causes?” SMLM session at the ACPA convention, St. Louis, October 29, 2011.

2011: “Textual Issues in Book 2 of Buridan’s QDA” John Buridan’s Questions on the Soul: Third Workshop; University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Canada, July 25-27.

2011: Three Lectures: “Buridan on Truth and Validity, I-II” and “False Dilemmas of Post-Cartesian Philosophy of Mind”, UCLA, Philosophy Department, Prof. Calvin Normore’s seminar; May 22 – 29, 2011.

2011: “Ontological Reduction by Logical Analysis and the Primitive Vocabulary of Mentalese”, 6th Montreal Workshop on Nominalism: Nominalist Strategies in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy of Language, University of Quebec at Montreal, May 6, 2011.

2011: “Aquinas and some of his critics on being and essence”, On What There Is and What There Isn’t: Semantics, Substance and Ontology; Suffolk County Community College; April 30, 2011.

2011: “John Buridan’s Questions on Aristotle’s De Anima” (presentation and roundtable discussion), Walter Burley, John Buridan and their Contemporaries at Paris in the First Half of the Fourteenth Century: Three Edition Projects; International Workshop; Radboud University Nijmegen; April 14–16.

2011: “Minds vs. Bodies and Other False Dilemmas of post-Cartesian Philosophy of Mind”, Biology and Subjectivity, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, April 4 – April 8, 2011.

2011: “Parvus Error in Principio Magnus est in Fine”, Interdisciplinary Conference on Medieval Studies: The Metaphysics of Aquinas and its Modern Interpreters, March, 26, Fordham University, New York, NY

2010: “Aquinas, Kenny and Buridan on Essence and Existence, and the Commensurability of Paradigms”, Metaphysics: Aristotelian, Scholastic, Analytic, June 30-July 3, 2010. Strahov Monastery, Prague, Czech Republic

2010: “Aquinas vs. Buridan on Essence and Existence”, 5th Montreal Workshop on Nominalism: Buridan’s Philosophy of Mind; 30 April - 1 May 2010, University of Quebec at Montreal

2010: “Buridan's Questions on the De Anima (tertia lectura). Issues in text edition and translation” (workshop presentation with Jack Zupko) 5th Montreal Workshop on Nominalism: Buridan’s Philosophy of Mind; 30 April - 1 May 2010, University of Quebec at Montreal

2009: “Demon Skepticism and Non-Veridical Concepts”, invited comments at the Eastern APA Convention, December 27, 2009, New York, Marriott.

2009: “Buridan on Substantial Unity and Substantial Concepts: Comments on ‘John Buridan’s Empiricism and the Knowledge of Substances’ by Henrik Lagerlund”, The Western Ontario Colloquium in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy: Academic Skepticism and its Influence, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, 16-17 Oct. 2009.

2009: “Natural Logic, Medieval Logic and Formal Semantics”, Logic, Language, Mathematics: A Philosophy Conference in Memory of Imre Ruzsa, Eötvös Lóránd University, Budapest, September 17-19.

2009: “Two Summulae, two ways of doing logic: the ‘realism’ of Peter of Spain vs. the ‘nominalism’ of John Buridan”, Philosophy Colloquium, Boston College, Boston, April 6, 2009.

2008: “Two Strategies of Doing Logic: Formalization vs. Regimentation”, Logic Now and Then, Center for Research in Syntax, Semantics and Phonology, Brussels, November 5-7, 2008.

2008: “The Distinction between Singular and Universal Concepts in Ockham and Buridan”, The Montreal Workshop on Nominalism: Ockham and Buridan, May 17, 2008.

2008: “Anselm’s Proof for God’s Existence in the Proslogion”, The College of New Jersey, Department of Philosophy, April 17, 2008

2007: Thomistic Seminar, invited faculty member, August 5-10, Princeton University

2007: “Via Antiqua vs. Via Moderna Semantics: Two Ways of Constructing Semantic Theory”, 1st GPMR Workshop on Logic and Semantics: Medieval Logic and Modern Applied Logic, Reinische Friedrich Wilhelms Universität Bonn, Germany, June 28-30, 2007.

2007: “Aquinas vs. Buridan on Essence and Existence”, Medieval Science Colloquium, May 25-26. Boston College, Boston

2006: “Augustine’s Three Discoveries: Faith, Reason and History”, October 17, 2006, Columbia University, New York, NY.

2006: “Singularity by Similarity vs. Causality in Aquinas, Ockham and Buridan”, Montreal Workshop on Nominalism: Singular Terms and Singular Concepts in Late-Medieval Nominalism, 12-13 May 2006, University of Quebec at Montreal

2005: “Yiwei Zheng on Walter Burley on ‘How to start and stop?’”, December 30, 2005, APA meeting, New York, NY.

2005: “Intentional Transfer in Averroes, Indifference of Nature in Avicenna, and the Issue of the Representationalism of Aquinas”, Fordham International Conference on Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, October 15, 2005, Fordham University, New York

2005: “Is Ockham off the Hook?”, The University of Toronto Colloquium in Mediaeval Philosophy, September 24, 2005, Toronto, Canada

2005: “Putting Skeptics in Their Place vs. Stopping Them in Their Tracks: Two Anti-Skeptical Strategies”, Inaugural Lecture, Department of Philosophy, Fordham University; September 12, 2005.

2005: “Buridan’s Anti-Skepticism”, Skepticism in Medieval and Renaissance Thought, ESF Workshop within the program: From Natural Philosophy to Science, University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, May 6-8, 2005.

2005: “The “Grammar” of ‘God’ and ‘Being’: Making Sense of Talking about the One True God in Different Metaphysical Traditions”, Twenty-sixth Annual Philosophy of Religion Conference.  Claremont Conference on the Philosophy of Religion: Whose God? Which Tradition? Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA, February 11, 2005.

2004: “Quine, Wyman, and Buridan: Three Approaches to Ontological Commitment”, CUNY Graduate Center Philosophy Colloquium, September 22, 2004.

2003: “The Essentialist Nominalism of John Buridan”, UCLA Philosophy Colloquium series, April 18, 2003; Boise State Philosophy Colloquium, May 2, 2003; Fordham University, Phi Sigma Tau Lecture, October 8, 2003

2003: “Consequences of a Closed, Token-Based Semantics: The Case of John Buridan”, The Moody Conference in Medieval Philosophy: Truth, UCLA, February 1, 2003; Boise State Philosophy Colloquium, May 3, 2003

2002: “Tracing the Via Buridani in Scotland”, From Medieval to Early Modem Thought: The Historical Routes of Transmission, June 6-8, 2002, Catholic University of Nijmegen, Netherlands

2002: Invited comments on Anthony P. Roark (Boise State U.), “Tarski and Klima: Conceptual Closure in Anselm's Ontological Proof”, Pacific APA meeting, March 27-30, 2002, Seattle, WA.

2002: “Problems concerning Buridan’s Conception of Truth”, The Moody Conference in Medieval Philosophy: Truth, UCLA, February 22-24, 2002.

2001: “John Buridan on the Acquisition of Simple Substantial Concepts”, John Buridan and Beyond: The Language Sciences 1300-1700, September 3-9, 2001, Copenhagen, Denmark.

2000: “The Medieval Problem of Universals”, Center for Medieval Studies Lecture Series, Fordham University, May 3, 2000.

1999: “The Philosophical Logic of John Buridan”, Hungarian Philosophical Association, Budapest, Hungary, November 26, 1999.

1999: “Medieval Logic” a graduate seminar at the University of Budapest, 5 classes, Budapest, Hungary, November 22-26.

1999: “Thomas of Sutton on the Analogy of Being and the Immateriality of the Human Soul”, TransCoop-Programm (Stiftung Deutsch-Amerikanisches Akademisches Konzil) Medieval Institute (Notre Dame) Thomas-Institut (Köln): Tübingen, Germany, May, 24-29, 1999.

1999: “Aquinas’ Theory of the Copula”, 35th Annual Cincinnati Philosophy Colloquium: The History of Logic. University of Cincinnati, March 5-7, 1999.

1998: “Semantic Complexity and Syntactic Simplicity in Ockham's Mental Language”, invited comments on Yiwei Zheng: “Ockham's Connotation Theory and Ontological Elimination”, Eastern APA Meeting, Washington DC, December 30, 1998

1998: “Ontological Hierarchy in Plato's Republic”, Prof. G. Matthews’ Plato seminar, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, November 2, 1998

1998: “Aquinas on One and Many”, Midday Medieval Seminar series, Boston College, November 2, 1998

1998: “Buridan's Theory of Definitions in his Scientific Practice”, Colloquium on the Metaphysics and Natural Philosophy of John Buridan, Emory University, October 23-25, 1998

1998: “Aquinas on One and Many”, 33rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May, 1998

1998: Comments on Jack Zupko: “Philosophy among the Artistae: A Late-Medieval Picture of the Limits of Rational Inquiry”, ND Philosophy Colloquium, March 27, 1998

1997: “Man = Body + Soul: Aquinas’ Arithmetic of Human Nature”, ND Philosophy Colloquium, October 31, 1997

1997: “Natural Necessity and Eucharistic Theology in the Late 13th Century”, TransCoop-Program (Stiftung Deutsch-Amerikanisches Akademisches Konzil) Medieval Institute (Notre Dame) Thomas-Institut (Köln): “After the Condemnations of 1277: The University of Paris in the Last Quarter of the Thirteenth Century (Nach den Verurteilungen von 1277: Die Universität von Paris im letzen Viertel des 13. Jahrhunderts”; University of Notre Dame, October 10, 1997.

1997: “Man = Body + Soul: Aquinas’ Arithmetic of Human Nature”, 32nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May 11, 1997

1997: Invited comments on Peter King: “The Failure of Ockham’s Nominalism”, Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, April 26, 1997, Pittsburgh, PA.

1996: “Nulla virtus cognoscitiva circa proprium obiectum decipitur”, Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, invited comments on Robert Pasnau: “The Identity of Knower and Known,” April 25, Chicago, IL

1996: “Modi Essendi vs. Modi Praedicandi in Medieval Philosophy” (in Hungarian, not attended, the contribution was read by another participant), May 17, University of Budapest, a Symposium in Honor of the 75th Birthday of Imre Ruzsa

1996: “Contemporary ‘Essentialism’ vs. Aristotelian Essentialism”, Notre Dame Philosophy Colloquium Series, October 18, University of Notre Dame

1996: “Buridan’s Logic and the Ontology of Modes”, The Copenhagen School of Medieval Philosophy, The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, January 13, 1996, Copenhagen, Denmark.

1996: “Boethius and Aquinas on the Metaphysics of Being and Goodness”, March 18, Emory University, Atlanta

1993: “Teleology, Intentionality and Naturalism”, Action and Social Science, June 18, 1993 University of Budapest, Hungary

1992: “Saint Anselm’s Proof: A Problem of Reference, Intentional Identity and Mutual Understanding”, Medieval and Contemporary Philosophy of Religion, August 26, 1992, Boston University, Boston, MA.

1992: “Ontological Alternatives vs. Alternative Semantics in Medieval Philosophy”, The Boston Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy, January 27, 1992, Harvard University, Boston, MA

1990: “Ontological Alternatives vs. Alternative Semantics in Medieval Philosophy”, Philosophy Club, University of St. Andrews

1990: “Entia Rationis vs. Semantic Analysis: Two Strategies of Reducing Ontological Commitment in Medieval Philosophy”, Prof. Simo Knuuttila’s research seminar, Dept. of Systematic Theology, Univ. of Helsinki

1990: “‘I owe you a horse’: a Medieval Problem of Intentionality and Meaning”, Finnish Philosophical Association

1989: “Approaching Natural Language via Medieval Logic”, Prof. G.H. von Wright’s research seminar, Dept. of Philosophy, Univ. of Helsinki

1988: “General Terms in their Referring Function”, Prof. G. H. von Wright’s research seminar, Dept. of Philosophy, Univ. of Helsinki

1988: “Aquinas on the Incarnation”, Prof. Simo Knuuttila’s research seminar, Dept. of Systematic Theology, Univ. of Helsinki

 

Academic visits:

2002/2003 UCLA visiting scholar

1991 Univ. of Helsinki 3 months (invitation by Prof. S. Knuuttila)

1991 Univ. of Copenhagen 3 months (invitation by Prof. S. Ebbesen)

1990 Univ. of St. Andrews 6 months (invitation by Dr. S. L. Read)

1990 Univ. of Helsinki 6 months (invitation by Prof. S. Knuuttila)

1989 Univ. of Helsinki 4 months (invitation by Prof. S. Knuuttila)

1988 Univ. of Helsinki 3 weeks (exchange program)

Service to the professional community:

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, editor, Medieval Philosophy, 1996-

Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics, director 2000-

Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics, editor, 2000-

Medieval Academy of America meeting of 2002, Program Committee member, 2000

American Catholic Philosophical Association, executive council member 2003-2005.

American Catholic Philosophical Association, executive committee member 2005-2008

Medieval Philosophy: Texts and Studies, Series Editor, Fordham University Press, 2007-

Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, advisory board member, 2007-

Hungarian Philosophical Review, Advisory Board Member and Consulting Editor, 2010-

Society of Christian Philosophers, Program Committee Member 2008-

On What There Was – Conceptions of Being 500-1650, East and West -- Brepols Publishers, Series Advisory Board Member, 2010-

Czech Science Foundation – permanent Review Board Member, 2011-

Philosophy Studies, David Publishing Company – Advisory Board Member, 2011-

Contemporary Scholasticism, Ontos Verlag, Germany – Editorial Board Member, 2011-

American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly – Advisory Board Member, 2012-

ACPA Nominations Committee member – 2012

Studia Neoaristotelica: A Journal of Analytic Scholasticism – Advisory Board Member, 2012-

NEH Collaborative Research competition, Scholarly Editions and Translations:  Philosophy and Religion – Panelist, March 2013  

XXIII World Congress of Philosophy, Athens, Greece – medieval philosophy program committee member and session chair, 2013 January-August  

Historical-Analytical Studies on Nature, Mind and Action (book series), Springer Verlag – Editor-in-Chief, 2013-

2015: External PhD examiner at Yale and UQUAM; distinguished professorship committee member at Fordham

 

Referee for

International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Synthese, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Medieval Philosophy and Theology, Yale University Press, W. W. Norton & Co. Inc., Cambridge University Press, Standard Research Grants Program of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, International Philosophical Quarterly, Oxford University Press, Philosophical Papers, The Philosophical Quarterly, Journal of the History of Philosophy, The Catholic University of America Press, Foundations of the Formal Sciences IV: The History of the Concept of the Formal Sciences; The City University of New York PSC-CUNY Research Award Program; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada; Global Academic Publishing; Research Council of the Catholic University of Leuven; Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie; Thomist; Earhart Foundation; Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK); American Philosophical Quarterly; The Philosophical Quarterly; The Leverhulme Trust; University of Western Ontario; Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie ; Oxford University Press; The Philosophical Quarterly; Continuum Publishers; Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA); Czech Science Foundation;  Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada; University of Notre Dame Press; Central European University; Logica Universalis (Springer Verlag); 2012: British Journal for the History of Philosophy; History of Philosophy Quarterly; University of Western Ontario: Graham and Gale Wright Distinguished Scholar Award; Linguistics and Philosophy; University of Torino: PRIN (Projects of National Interest) and FIRB (Future in Research for Younger Investigators); Ministerio dell'Istruzione, dell'Universitŕ e della Ricerca; Routledge Publishers; Oxford University Press; Journal of Philosophical Research; The Modern Schoolman; The Thomist; 2013:  History of Philosophy Quarterly; Notre Dame University Press; Institut Universitaire de France; Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie; Magyar Filozófiai Szemle; CUNY Promotion Committee (external referee); Czech Science Foundation; 2014: Drew University Promotion Committee (external referee); Austrian Science Fund; Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy; Mind; Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study; National Humanities Center Fellowships; Nova et Vetera; Anuario Filosófico; Earhart Foundation; 2015: Polish Academy of Sciences; American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly; Magyar Filozófiai Szemle; Oxford University Press; History of Philosophy Quarterly: 2016: Oxford University Press, British Journal of Philosophy of Science

 

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

Books:

1.               Klima, G. (et al. ed.) (forthcoming) Questions on Aristotle’s ‘On the Soul’ by John Buridan Latin edition with an annotated English translation, Springer Verlag

2.               Klima, G. (ed.) (2016) Questions on the Soul by John Buridan and Others: A Companion to John Buridan’s Philosophy of Mind, Springer Verlag

3.               Klima, G. (2016) with Hall, A. (eds.), The Metaphysics of Personal Identity, Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics, Vol. 13, Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Newcastle upon Tyne, 2016.

4.               Klima, G. (2015) with Hall, A. (eds.), Maimonides on God and Duns Scotus on Logic and Metaphysics, Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics, Vol. 12, Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Newcastle upon Tyne, 2015.

5.               Klima, G. (ed.) (2015) Intentionality, Cognition and Mental Representation in Medieval Philosophy, Fordham University Press

6.               Klima, G. (2014) with Hall, A. (eds.) Metaphysical Themes, Medieval and Modern, Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics, Vol. 11, Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Newcastle upon Tyne, 2014.

7.               Klima, G. (2013) with Hall, A. (eds.), Skepticism, Causality and Skepticism about Causality, Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics, Vol. 10, Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Newcastle upon Tyne, 2013.

8.               Klima, G. (2011) with Hall, A. (eds.), The Immateriality of the Human Mind, the Semantics of Analogy, and the Conceivability of God, Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics, Vol. 1, Cambridge Scholars Publishers

9.               Klima, G. (2011) with Hall, A. (eds.), Categories, and What is Beyond, Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics, Vol. 2, Cambridge Scholars Publishers

10.            Klima, G. (2011) with Hall, A. (eds.), Knowledge, Mental Language, and Free Will, Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics, Vol. 3, Cambridge Scholars Publishers

11.            Klima, G. (2011) with Hall, A. (eds.), Mental Representation, Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics, Vol. 4, Cambridge Scholars Publishers

12.            Klima, G. (2011) with Hall, A. (eds.), Universal Representation, and the Ontology of Individuation, Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics, Vol. 5, Cambridge Scholars Publishers

13.            Klima, G. (2011) with Hall, A. (eds.), Medieval Skepticism, and the Claim to Metaphysical Knowledge, Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics, Vol. 6, Cambridge Scholars Publishers

14.            Klima, G. (2011) with Hall, A. (eds.), Medieval Metaphysics, or is it “Just Semantics”? Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics, Vol. 7, Cambridge Scholars Publishers

15.            Klima, G. (2011) with Hall, A. (eds.), After God, with Reason Alone—Saikat Guha Commemorative Volume, Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics, Vol. 8, Cambridge Scholars Publishers

16.            Klima, G. (2011) with Hall, A. (eds.), The Demonic Temptations of Medieval Nominalism, Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics, Vol. 9, Cambridge Scholars Publishers

17.            Klima, G. (2009) John Buridan, Great Medieval Thinkers, Oxford University Press, 2009

18.            Klima, G. (2007) Medieval Philosophy: Essential Readings with Commentary, Blackwell Publishers, 2007

19.            Klima, G. (2001) John Buridan: Summulae de Dialectica, an annotated translation with a philosophical introduction; New Haven: Yale University Press

20.            Klima, G. (1988) ARS ARTIUM: Essays in Philosophical Semantics, Medieval and Modern, Budapest: Institute of Philosophy of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Translations

21.            Josephus Blancanus, De Mathematicarum Natura Dissertatio (A Treatise on the Nature of Mathematics), in: Mancosu, P.: Philosophy of Mathematics and Mathematical Practice in the Seventeenth Century, Oxford University Press: Oxford-New York, 1996, pp. 178-212.

22.            Aquinói Szent Tamás: A létezőről és a lényegről (De Ente et Essentia, De Principiis Naturae, De Mixtione Elemntorum, ST1, qq. 1-3, 13, Hungarian Translation and Commentary), Budapest: Helikon, 1990.

Research Papers:

23.            Klima, G. (forthcoming) “A lélek a középkor filozófiájában” (“The soul in medieval philosophy” – in Hungarian), in: Székely, A. (et al. eds.) Lélek enciklopédia (Encyclopedia of the Soul), Kossuth Kiadó: Budapest

24.            Klima, G. (2016), “The Problem of ‘Gappy Existence’ in Aquinas’ Metaphysics and Theology”, in Klima, G. (2016) with Hall, A. (eds.), The Metaphysics of Personal Identity, Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics, Vol. 13, Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Newcastle upon Tyne, 2016.

25.            Klima, G. (2016). “From Semantics to the Philosophy of Mind: Reconsidering Some Late-Medieval and Modern Critiques of Aquinas’ Argument for the Immateriality of the Intellect from the Universality of Concepts” (in English and in Chinese translation), Journal of Zhejiang University, 1(2016), pp. 1-15.

26.            Klima, G. (2016) “Mind vs. Body and Other False Dilemmas of Post-Cartesian Philosophy of Mind”, in: Valdecasas, M, (et al., eds.), Biology and Subjectivity, Springer, 2016.

27.            Klima, G. (2016) “Buridan on Sense Perception and Sensory Awareness”, in: Klima, G. (ed.) (2016) Questions on the Soul by John Buridan and Others: A Companion to John Buridan’s Philosophy of Mind, Springer Verlag

28.            Klima, G. (2016) “The Trivia of Materialism, Dualism and Hylomorphism:
Some Pointers from John Buridan and Others”, in: Klima, G. (ed.) (2016) Questions on the Soul by John Buridan and Others: A Companion to John Buridan’s Philosophy of Mind, Springer Verlag

29.            Klima, G. (2016) “Consequences”, in Read, S.L.-Dutilh-Novaes, C., The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Logic, CUP: Cambridge, UK

30.            Klima, G. (2015) “Semantic Content in Aquinas and Ockham” in: Cameron, M. Stainton, R.J. Linguistic Content: New Essays on the History of Philosophy of Language. Ed. M. Cameron and R.J. Stainton. Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2015, pp. 121-135.

31.            Klima, G. (2015) “Universality and Immateriality”, Acta Philosophica, 24(2015), pp. 31-42.

32.            Klima, G. (2015) “Geach’s Three Most Inspiring Errors Concerning Medieval Logic”, Philosophical Investigations, 38(2015), pp. 34-51. Online “early view” DOI: 10.1111/phin.12075

33.            Klima, G. (2015) “Mental Representations and Concepts in Medieval Philosophy” in Klima, G. (ed.) Intentionality, Cognition and Mental Representation in Medieval Philosophy, Fordham University Press: New York, NY, 2014, pp. 323-337.

34.            Klima, G. (2014) “The Problem of Universals and the Subject Matter of Logic”, in Rush, P. (ed.) The Metaphysics of Logic, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, pp. 160-177.

35.            Klima, G. (2014) “A hazug korrespondenciamondatok buridáni kezelése: Válasz Bodnár Istvánnak” (“The Buridanian treatment of Liar-type correspondence sentences: Reply to István Bodnár” – in Hungarian), Általános Nyelvészeti Tanulmányok (Studies in General Linguistics), 26(2014), pp. 101-103.

36.            Klima, G. (2014) “Ontológiai Elkötelezettség és a Hazug Paradoxon Szemantikailag Zárt Nyelvekben” (“Ontological Commitment and the Liar Paradox in Semantically Closed Languages” – in Hungarian), Általános Nyelvészeti Tanulmányok (Studies in General Linguistics), 26(2014), pp. 79-91.

37.            Klima, G. (2014) “The Rises and Falls of Analysis and Metaphysics”, in: Klima, G. (2014) with Hall, A. (eds.) Metaphysical Themes, Medieval and Modern, Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics, Vol. 11, Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Newcastle upon Tyne, 2014, pp. 85-89.

38.            Klima, G. (2014), “Being and Cognition”, Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives in Metaphysics, Edited by Daniel D. Novotný - Lukáš Novák, 2014, Routledge: New York, pp. 104-116.

39.            Klima, G. (2013), “Being, Unity, and Identity in the Fregean and Aristotelian Traditions”, in Edward Feser (ed.): Aristotle on Method and Metaphysics; Philosophers in Depth, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 146-168.

40.            Klima, G. (2013), “Three Myths of Intentionality vs. Some Medieval Philosophers”, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 21(2013), pp. 359-376.

41.            Klima, G. (2013), “Aquinas vs. Buridan on Essence and Existence”, in: Bolyard, C. – Keele, R.: Later Medieval Metaphysics: Ontology, Language and Logic, Medieval Philosophy: Texts and Studies, Fordham University Press, New York, 2013, pp. 30-44.

42.            Klima, G. (2013), “Whatever Happened to Efficient Causes?”, in Klima, G. (2013) with Hall, A. (eds.), Skepticism, Causality and Skepticism about Causality, Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics, Vol. 10, Cambridge Scholars Publishers, pp. 31-42.

43.            Klima, G. (2013), “Reply to Michael Rota”, in Klima, G. (2013) with Hall, A. (eds.), Skepticism, Causality and Skepticism about Causality, Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics, Vol. 10, Cambridge Scholars Publishers, pp. 47-48.

44.            Klima, G. (2013) “The Semantic Conception of Truth”, New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2012-13: Ethics and Philosophy. Ed. Robert L. Fastiggi. 4 vols. Detroit: Gale, 2013, pp. 1395-1397. (2055 words)

45.            Klima, G. (2012) “Ontological Reduction by Logical Analysis and the Primitive Vocabulary of Mentalese”, Chinese translation of 47, in World Philosophy, 4(2012), pp. 109-119.

46.            Klima, G. (2012) “Hogyan tehető Aquinói Öt Útja ismét járhatóvá? Bármilyen vallásúak és vallástalanok számára egyaránt.” (“How Can One Make Aquinas’ Five Ways Viable Again, for People of Any or No Religion?” in Hungarian) in: Babits Antal (szerk.), Az arany középkor, zsidók, muszlimok és keresztények (The Golden Middle Ages: Jews, Muslims, and Christians).   Logos Kiadó: Budapest, pp. 273-295.

47.            Klima, G (2012) “Ontological Reduction by Logical Analysis and the Primitive Vocabulary of Mentalese”, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, 86(2012), pp. 303-414.

48.            Klima, G (2012) “Quine, Wyman, and Buridan: Three Approaches to Ontological Commitment”, Chinese translation of 77, in World Philosophy, 3(2012), pp. 6-17.

49.            Klima, G. (2012) “Aquinas vs. Buridan on Essence and Existence, and the Commensurability of Paradigms”, Novák, L. – Novotný, D. –  Sousedík, P. –Svoboda, D. (eds.) Metaphysics: Aristotelian, Scholastic, Analytic, Ontos Verlag: Heusenstamm, pp. 169-184.

50.            Klima, G. (2012) “Medieval Philosophy of Language”, in Russell, Gillian –  Fara, Delia Graff, Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Language, Routledge: New York-Abingdon, pp. 827-840.

51.            Klima, G. (2012) “Theory of Language”, Davies, B. – Stump, E., The Oxford Handbook to Aquinas, Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 371-389.

52.            Klima, G. (2011) “Indifference vs. Universality of Mental Representation in Ockham, Buridan, and Aquinas”, in Amerini, F. – Marrone, F. – Porro, P. (eds.) Later Medieval Perspectives on Intentionality (Quaestio 10/2010), Brepols Publishers/Pagina soc. Coop., Turnhout/Bari, 2010, pp. 99-110.

53.            Klima, G. (2011) “Being”, Marenbon, J. (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Philosophy, Oxford University Press, pp. 403-420.

54.            Klima, G. (2011) “John Buridan”, Lagerlund, H. Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy, Springer: Dordrecht, pp. 597-603.

55.            Klima, G. (2011) “Thomas Sutton”, Lagerlund, H. Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy, Springer: Dordrecht, pp. 1294-1295.

56.            Klima, G. (2011) “Being”, Lagerlund, H. Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy, Springer: Dordrecht, pp. 150-159.

57.            Klima, G. (2011) “Substance, accident, modes”, Lagerlund, H. Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy, Springer: Dordrecht, pp.1219-1227.

58.            Klima, G. (2011) “Two Summulae, Two Ways of Doing Logic: Peter of Spain’s ‘realism’ and John Buridan’s ‘nominalism’”, in Cameron, Margaret – Marenbon, John (eds.): Methods and Methodologies: Aristotelian logic East and West, 500 – 1500, Brill Academic Publishers: Leiden-Boston, pp. 109-126.

59.            Klima, G. (2010), “Natural Logic, Medieval Logic and Formal Semantics”, Magyar Filozófiai Szemle, 54(2010), pp. 58-75.

60.            Klima, G. (2010) “The Anti-Skepticism of John Buridan and Thomas Aquinas:
Putting Skeptics in Their Place vs. Stopping Them in Their Tracks”, in: Lagerlund, H. Rethinking the History of Skepticism, Brill Publishers: Leiden/Boston, 2010, pp. 145-170.

61.            Klima, G. (2010) “Nominalist Semantics”, The Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy, ed. R. Pasnau, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 159-172.

62.            Klima, G. (2009) “William Ockham”, The History of Western Philosophy of Religion, Volume 2, Medieval Philosophy of Religion, ed. G. Oppy – N. Trakakis, Acumen Publishing: Durham, 2009, pp. 195-208.

63.            Klima, G. (2009) “Teleológia, intencionalita, naturalizmus” (“Teleology, intentionality, naturalism”, in Slovak), Filozofia, 64(2009), pp. 114-122.

64.            Klima, G. (2009) “Aquinas on the Materiality of the Human Soul and the Immateriality of the Human Intellect”, Philosophical Investigations, 32(2009), pp. 163-182.

65.            Klima, G. (2008) “Logic without Truth: John Buridan on the Liar”, in: Shahid Rahman (et al. eds.), Unity, Truth and the Liar: The Modern Relevance of Medieval Solutions to the Liar Paradox, Logic, Epistemology and the Unity of Science, Springer Publishing Company, chapter 5, pp. 87-112.

66.            Klima, G. (2008) “The “Grammar” of ‘God’ and ‘Being’: Making Sense of Talking about the One True God in Different Metaphysical Traditions”, in D. Z. Phillips (ed.), Whose God? Which Tradition?, Ashgate Publishing Company: Aldershot, pp. 53-77.

67.            Klima, G. (2008) “The Nominalist Semantics of Ockham and Buridan: A Rational Reconstruction”, Gabbay, D. – Woods, J. (eds.) Handbook of the History of Logic, North Holland: Amsterdam, 2008, pp. 389-431.

68.            Klima, G. (2007) “John Buridan”, in: T. Hockey (ed.), Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, Springer Verlag: Berlin

69.            Klima, G. (2007) “Giles of Rome”, in: T. Hockey (ed.), Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, Springer Verlag: Berlin

70.            Klima, G. (2007) “Thomistic ‘Monism’ vs. Cartesian ‘Dualism’”, Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy, 10(2007), pp. 92-112.

71.            Klima, G. (2006) “The Universality of Logic and the Primacy of Mental Language in the Nominalist Philosophy of Logic of John Buridan”, Mediaevalia Philosophica Polonorum, 35(2006), pp. 167-177.

72.            Klima, G. (2006) “Intentional Transfer in Averroes, Indifference of Nature in Avicenna, and the Representationalism of Aquinas”, Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics, Volume 5(2005), pp. 33-37,
<http://faculty.fordham.edu/klima/SMLM/PSMLM5/PSMLM5.pdf>  

73.            Klima, G. (2006) “Thomas Sutton on Individuation”, Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics, Volume 5(2005), pp. 70-78.
<http://faculty.fordham.edu/klima/SMLM/PSMLM5/PSMLM5.pdf>

74.            Klima, G. (2005) “Syncategoremata”, in: Elsevier’s Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd Ed. Edited by Keith Brown, Elsevier: Oxford, 2006, vol. 12, pp. 353-356.

75.            Klima, G. (2005) “Nominalism”, in: Elsevier’s Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd Ed. Edited by Keith Brown, Elsevier: Oxford, 2006, vol. 8, pp. 648-652.

76.            Klima, G. (2005) “The Essentialist Nominalism of John Buridan”, The Review of Metaphysics, 58(2005), pp. 301-315.

77.            Klima, G. (2005) “Quine, Wyman, and Buridan: Three Approaches to Ontological Commitment”, in Korean Journal of Logic, 8(2005), pp. 1-22.

78.            Klima, G. “Tradition and Innovation in Medieval Theories of Mental Representation”, Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics, <http://faculty.fordham.edu/klima/SMLM/PSMLM4/PSMLM4.pdf>, 4(2004), pp. 4-11.

79.            Klima, G. “The Demonic Temptations of Medieval Nominalism: Mental Representation and ‘Demon Skepticism’”, Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics, <http://faculty.fordham.edu/klima/SMLM/PSMLM4/PSMLM4.pdf>, 4(2004), pp. 37-44.

80.            Klima, G. (2004) “Form, Metaphysical, in Ancient and Medieval Thought”, in: Maryanne Cline Horowitz, (ed.), New Dictionary of History of Ideas, Detroit: Charles Scribner’s Sons, pp. 835-837.

81.            Klima, G. (2004) “John Buridan and the Force-Content Distinction”, in: Maierú, A. – Valente, L. (eds.) Medieval Theories On Assertive and Non-Assertive Language, Acts of the 14th European Symposium on Medieval Logic and Semantics, Rome: Olschi, 2004, pp. 415-427.

82.            Klima, G. (2004) “John Buridan on the Acquisition of Simple Substantial Concepts”, in John Buridan and Beyond: Topics in the Language Sciences 1300-1700, eds. R. L. Friedmann – S. Ebbesen, Copenhagen: The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 2004, pp. 17-32.

83.            Klima, G. (2004) “Consequences of a Closed, Token-Based Semantics: The Case of John Buridan”, History and Philosophy of Logic, 25(2004), pp. 95-110.

84.            Klima, G. (2003) “Natures: The Problem of Universals”, in: S. McGrade (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Philosophy, Cambridge University Press, pp. 196-207.

85.            Klima, G. (2003) “Conceptual Closure in Anselm’s Proof: Reply to Tony Roark”, History and Philosophy of Logic, 24 (2003), pp. 131–134.

86.            Klima, G. (2003) “John Buridan”, in: J. Gracia and T. Noone (eds.), A Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages, Blackwell, pp. 340-48.

87.            Klima, G. (2003) “Peter of Spain, the author of the Summulae”, in: J. Gracia and T. Noone (eds.), Blackwell’s Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages, Blackwell, pp. 526-31.

88.            Klima, G. (2003) “Thomas of Sutton”, in: J. Gracia and T. Noone (eds.), Blackwell’s Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages, Blackwell, pp. 664-65.

89.            Klima, G. (2002) “Thomas Sutton and Henry of Ghent on the Analogy of Being”, Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics, <http://faculty.fordham.edu/klima/SMLM/PSMLM2/PSMLM2.pdf >, 2(2002), pp. 34-44.

90.            Klima, G. (2002) “Man = Body + Soul: Aquinas’s Arithmetic of Human Nature”, in: B. Davies (ed.), Thomas Aquinas: Contemporary Philosophical Perspectives, Oxford University Press, pp. 257-273. (slightly revised reprint of the 1997 paper)

91.            Klima, G. (2002) “Contemporary ‘Essentialism’ vs. Aristotelian Essentialism”, in: J. Haldane, (ed.), Mind, Metaphysics, and Value in the Thomistic and Analytic Traditions, Notre Dame, pp. 175-194.

92.            Klima, G. (2002) “Aquinas’ Theory of the Copula and the Analogy of Being”, Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy, 5(2002), pp. 159-176.

93.            Klima, G. (2001) “On whether id quo nihil maius cogitari potest is in the understanding”, Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics, <http://faculty.fordham.edu/klima/SMLM/PSMLM1.pdf>, 1(2001), pp. 70-80.

94.            Klima, G. (2001) “Aquinas’ Proofs of the Immateriality of the Intellect from the Universality of Thought”, Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics, <http://faculty.fordham.edu/klima/SMLM/PSMLM1.pdf>, 1(2001), pp. 19-28. (See also Bob Pasnau’s comments and my rejoinder in the same volume, pp. 29-36 and pp. 37-44, respectively.)

95.            Klima, G. (2001) “Existence and Reference in Medieval Logic”, in: A. Hieke – E. Morscher (eds.): New Essays in Free Logic, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001, pp. 197-226.

96.            Klima, G. (2001) “Buridan’s Theory of Definitions in his Scientific Practice”, in: J. M. M. H. Thijssen – J. Zupko, The Metaphysics and Natural Philosophy of John Buridan, E. J. Brill Publishers, Leiden, pp. 29-48.

97.            Klima, G. (2001) “Thomas of Sutton on the Nature of the Intellective Soul and the Thomistic Theory of Being”, Aertsen, J. et al. (eds.), Nach der Verurteilung von 1277. Philosophie und Theologie an der Universität von Paris im letzten Viertel des 13. Jahrhunderts, Studien und Texte (Miscellanea Mediaevalia 28), Walter de Gruyter, Berlin-New York 2001, pp. 436-455.

98.            Klima, G. with Borbély, G. (2000) “Dialektikus disputa az értelem egységének skolasztikus kérdéséről” (A dialectical disputation on the scholastic question of the unity of the intellect), Magyar Filozófiai Szemle, 4/6(2006), http://epa.oszk.hu/00100/00186/00007/borb0046.html

99.            Klima, G. (2000) “The Medieval Problem of Universals”, in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2000 Edition), E. N. Zalta (ed.), URL = http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/universals-medieval/

100.         Klima, G. (2000) “Saint Anselm’s Proof: A Problem of Reference, Intentional Identity and Mutual Understanding”, in: G. Hintikka (ed.): Medieval Philosophy and Modern Times, Proceedings of “Medieval and Modern Philosophy of Religion”, Boston University, August 25-27, 1992; Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands, pp. 69-88.

101.         Klima, G. (2000) “Aquinas on One and Many”, Documenti e Studi sulla Tradizione Filosofica Medievale, 11(2000), pp. 195-215.

102.         Klima, G. (1999) “Ockham’s Semantics and Ontology of the Categories”, Spade, P. V. (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Ockham, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 118-142.

103.         Klima, G. (1999) “Buridan’s Logic and the Ontology of Modes”, in: Ebbesen, S. – Friedman, R. L. (eds.), Medieval Analyses in Language and Cognition, Copenhagen: The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 1999, pp. 473-495.

104.         Klima, G. (1998) “Ancilla Theologiae vs. Domina Philosophorum: Thomas Aquinas, Latin Averroism, and the Autonomy of Philosophy”, in: Aertsen, J. – Speer, A. (eds.), What is Philosophy in the Middle Ages? Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Medieval Philosophy (SIEPM), Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, pp. 393-402.

105.         Klima, G. (1997) “Man = Body + Soul: Aquinas’s Arithmetic of Human Nature”, Koistinen, T. – Lehtonen, T.  (eds.), Philosophical Studies in Religion, Metaphysics, and Ethics., Helsinki: Luther-Agricola-Society, 1997, pp. 179-197.

106.         Klima, G. (1996) “The Semantic Principles Underlying Saint Thomas Aquinas’s Metaphysics of Being”, Medieval Philosophy and Theology, 5(1996), pp. 87-141.

107.         Klima, G. (1994) “Szent Tamás és a Démon” (Saint Thomas and the Demon), in Altrichter, F. – Szécsényi, T. (ed.), A filozófiai realizmus védhetősége (The Defensibility of Philosophical Realism), Budapest: University of Budapest, pp. 180-212.

108.         Klima, G. (1993) “The Changing Role of Entia Rationis in Medieval Philosophy: A Comparative Study with a Reconstruction”, Synthese 96(1993), pp. 25-59.

109.         Klima, G. (1993) “Nomina nuda tenemus”, Vigilia, 58(1993), pp. 680-684.

110.         Klima, G. (1993) “‘Socrates est species’: Logic, Metaphysics and Psychology in St. Thomas Aquinas’ Treatment of a Paralogism”, in Jacobi, K. (ed.) Argumentationstheorie: Scholastische Forschungen zu den logischen und semantischen Regeln korrekten Folgerns, Brill: Leiden, the Netherlands, pp. 489-504.

111.         Klima, G. (1993) “‘Debeo tibi equum’: A Reconstruction of Buridan’s Treatment of the Sophisma”, in Read, S.L. (ed.), Sophisms in Medieval Logic and Grammar: Acts of the 9th European Symposium for Medieval Logic and Semantics, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993. pp. 333-347; reprinted in: Neumer, K. – Voigt, V. (eds.), Semiotics and Philosophy of Language in Hungary, S - European Journal for Semiotic Studies, Vol. 4. No. 1-2. Vienna, pp. 141-159.

112.         Klima, G. (1992) “Az angyali metafizika ördögi buktatói” (The Devilish Tripwires of the Angelic Doctor’s Metaphysics: A Rejoinder), BUKSZ (Budapest Review of Books), 4(1992), pp. 413-418.

113.         Klima, G. (1991) “Ontological Alternatives vs. Alternative Semantics in Medieval Philosophy”, in: J. Bernard: Logical Semiotics, S - European Journal for Semiotic Studies, Vol. 3. No. 4, Vienna, pp. 587-618.

114.         Klima, G. (1991) “Latin as a Formal Language: Outlines of a Buridanian Semantics”, Cahiers de l’Institut du Moyen-Âge Grec et Latin, Copenhagen, 61, pp. 78-106.

115.         Klima, G. (1990) with Sandu, G. “Numerical Quantifiers in Game-Theoretical Semantics”, Theoria, 56, pp. 173-192.

116.         Klima, G. (1990) “Understanding Matters from a Logical Angle: Logical Aspects of Understanding”, Annales Universitatis Budapestinensis, Sectio Philosophica et Sociologica, 22-23, pp. 37-62.

117.         Klima, G. (1990) “On Being and Essence in St. Thomas Aquinas’s Metaphysics and Philosophy of Science”, S. Knuuttila - R. Työrinoja - S. Ebbesen (eds.): Knowledge And The Sciences In Medieval Philosophy: Proceedings of the Eighth International Congress of Medieval Philosophy (S.I.E.P.M.), Helsinki 24-29 August 1987, Vol. II, Publications of Luther-Agricola Society Series B 19, Helsinki, pp. 210-221.

118.         Klima, G. (1990) “Approaching Natural Language via Medieval Logic”, in: J. Bernard-J. Kelemen: Zeichen, Denken, Praxis, Institut fur Sozio-Semiotische Studien: Vienna, pp. 249-267.

119.         Klima, G. (1988) “Modernorum ‘Logica Modernorum’“, in Pólos, L. (ed.), Intensional Logic, History of Philosophy, and Methodology: To Imre Ruzsa on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday, Budapest, pp. 159-175.

120.         Klima, G. (1987) “Understanding Matters from a Logical Angle: Logical Aspects of Understanding”, Semiotische Bericthe-Doxa (joint issue), 3-4/11, pp. 101-125.

121.         Klima, G. (1987) “Über die natürliche Theologie von Anton Schütz” (On the Natural Theology of Anton Schütz), Doxa, 11, pp. 52-65.

122.         Klima, G. (1987) “Existence, Quantification and the Medieval Theory of Ampliation”, Doxa, 9, pp. 83-112.

123.         Klima, G. (1987) “Aquinói Tamás a természet princípiumairól”, (Thomas Aquinas on the Principles of Nature) Magyar Filozófiai Szemle, 31, pp. 41-80.

124.         Klima, G. (1986) with Bodnár, I. and Ruzsa, F. “Parmenidész igazolása”, (Justifying Parmenides) Magyar Filozófiai Szemle, 30, pp. 285-298.

125.         Klima, G. (1986) “Modernorum ‘Logica Modernorum’”, Tertium Non Datur, 2, pp. 177-197.

126.         Klima, G. (1984) “Libellus pro Sapiente: A Criticism of Allan Bäck’s Argument against St. Thomas Aquinas’ Theory of the Incarnation, The New Scholasticism, 58, pp. 207-219.

127.         Klima, G. (1984) “Aquinói Tamás a szépről”, (Thomas Aquinas on Beauty) Magyar Filozófiai Szemle, 28, pp. 454-473.

128.         Klima, G. (1984) “Aquinói Tamás a szavak jelentéséről”, (Thomas Aquinas on the Meaning of Words) Magyar Filozófiai Szemle, 28, pp. 298-312.

129.         Klima, G. (1983) “Szent Anzelm és az ontológiai istenérv”, (Saint Anselm and the Ontological Proof of God’s Existence) Világosság, 24, pp. 3-9.

130.         Klima, G. (1981) “Az Öt Út: Aquinói Szent Tamás istenbizonyítékai”, (The Five Ways: Saint Thomas Aquinas’ Proofs for God’s Existence) Világosság, 22, pp. 1-30.

Review Articles:

131.         Klima, G. (2014) A Treatise of Master Hervaeus Natalis: On Second Intentions. Vol. 1: An English Translation, Vol. 2: A Latin Edition. Edited and translated by John P. Doyle. International Philosophical Quarterly, 54(2014), pp. 235-237.

132.         Klima, G. and Zupko, J. (2013) “Questions on the Soul by John Buridan and Others,” (detailed SIEPM report on the 2012 conference held at Fordham) Bulletin de philosophie médiévale 54 (2012): 477-86.

133.         Klima, G. (2009) “Johannes Buridanus, Summulae De Propositionibus. Turnhout: Brepols, 2000”, History and Philosophy of Logic, 30(2009), 97-104.

134.         Klima, G. (2004) “On Kenny on Aquinas on Being: A critical review of Aquinas on Being by Anthony Kenny, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. x + 212. $45.00”, feature review in International Philosophical Quarterly, 44(2004), pp. 567-580.

135.         Klima, G. (2003) “Review of Matthew of Orléans: Sophistaria Sive Summa Communium Distinctionum Circa Sophismata Accidentium”, Journal of the History of Philosophy, 41(2003), pp. 272-274.

136.         Klima, G. (2002) “Review of C. Panaccio: Le discours intérieur de Platon ŕ Guillaume d’Ockham”, History and Philosophy of Logic, 23(2002), pp. 71-73.

137.         Klima, G. (1998) Review of A. Kenny: Aquinas on Mind, New York: Routledge, 1995, in Faith and Philosophy, 15(1998), pp. 113-117.

138.         Klima, G. (1998) “What can a scholastic do in the 21st century?” (Review of essays of K. Vidrányi), BUKSZ (Budapest Review of Books), 7(1998), pp. 167-169.

139.         Klima, G. (1985) “Paradigmák és valóság” (Paradigms and reality – review of the Hungarian translation of T. S. Kuhn: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions – A tudományos forradalmak szerkezete, Budapest: Gondolat, 1984), Világosság 26(1985), pp. 49-51.

140.         Klima, G. (1983) “Review of Eva Picardi: Assertibility and Truth – a Study of Fregean Themes”, Bologna, 1981, in Magyar Filozófiai Szemle, pp. 303-305.