Focal points of research are: Medieval Logic, Semantics and Metaphysics
Recent publications
Spruyt, J. (2024). Lumen naturale. In R. Gabriëls , & S. de Jong (Eds.), De Ironische Orde: Liber Amicorum voor Maarten Doorman (pp. 159-170). Maastricht University Press. https://doi.org/10.26481/mup.2401.15
Spruyt, J. (2018). Consequence and 'Cause': Thirteenth-century reflections on the nature of consequences. Vivarium, 56(3-4), 320-339. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685349-12341358
Spruyt, J. (2017). Peter of Spain. Questiones super libro “De Animalibus” Aristotelis: Critical Edition with Introduction. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2015.Isis, 108(3), 688-689. https://doi.org/10.1086/693521
Spruyt, J. (2017). John Wyclif on the Formal Nature of Inference. In L. Cessali, F. Goubier, & A. de Libera (Eds.), Formal Approaches and Natural Language in Medieval Logic: Proceedings of the XIXth European Symposium of Medieval Logic and Semantics (Vol. 82, pp. 149-172). Brepols. https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.4.2017094
Spruyt, J. (2016). Review of: Peter of Spain’s Summaries of Logic. Text, Introduction, Translation and Notes, by Brian P. Copenhaver with Calvin Normore and Terence Parsons.Oxford, Oxford University Press,History and Philosophy of Logic, 36(4), 399-401. https://doi.org/10.1080/01445340.2015.1048927
Spruyt, J., & Dutilh Novaes, C. (2015). Those Funny Words: Medieval Theories of Syncategrorematic Words. In M. . R. J. Cameron & Stainton (Ed.), Linguistic Content: New Essays on the History of the Philosophy of Language (pp. 100-120). Oxford University Press.