Earline Jennifer Ashworth (1939 – 23 July 2024) was a Canadian philosopher and Distinguished Professor Emerita of Philosophy at the

University of Waterloo The University of Waterloo (UWaterloo, UW, or Waterloo) is a Public university, public research university located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is on of land adjacent to uptown Waterloo and Waterloo Park. The university also op ...

. She is known for her works on

medieval philosophy Medieval philosophy is the philosophy that existed through the Middle Ages, the period roughly extending from the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century until after the Renaissance in the 13th and 14th centuries. Medieval philosophy, ...

. Ashworth was a Fellow of the

Royal Society of Canada The Royal Society of Canada (RSC; , SRC), also known as the Academies of Arts, Humanities, and Sciences of Canada (French: ''Académies des arts, des lettres et des sciences du Canada''), is the senior national, bilingual council of distinguishe ...

and a member of the British Academy Medieval Texts Editorial Committee. She died on 23 July 2024, after suffering a stroke.

Books

* ''Language and Logic in the Post-Medieval Period'' (Dordrecht: Reidel, 1974) *''The Tradition of Medieval Logic and Speculative Grammar from Anselm to the End of the Seventeenth Century: A Bibliography from 1836 Onwards'' (Toronto: PIMS, 1978) * ''Studies in Post-Medieval Semantics'' (London: Variorum, 1985) * edition of Robert Sanderson: ''Logicae Artis Compendium'' (Bologna: CLUEB, 1985) * edition of Thomas Bricot: ''Tractatus Insolubilium'' (Nijmegen: Ingenium, 1986) * edition and translation of Paul of Venice: ''Logica Magna Part II, Fascicule 8'' (Oxford University Press, 1988) * ''Les théories de l’analogie du XIIe au XVIe siècle'' (Paris: Vrin, 2008)

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* * 1939 births 2024 deaths 21st-century Canadian philosophers Canadian philosophy academics Academic staff of the University of Waterloo Bryn Mawr College alumni Alumni of the University of Cambridge Scholars of medieval philosophy Philosophers of language Canadian logicians Semanticists Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada Canadian women philosophers {{Canada-philosopher-stub