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John Mair was a Scottish born philosopher and theologian who taught at the Universities of Paris, Glasgow, and St. Andrews. He made significant contributions to logic and theology and wrote the first history of Great Britain.
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The list of primary and secondary scholarship on John Mair is extensive. For a comprehensive list of both primary and secondary sources see (Slotemaker and Witt 2015, 376–389).
Broadie, Alexander. 1985. Logic and logicians in pre-reformation Scotland. In The circle of John Mair. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Broadie, Alexander. 2009. A history of Scottish philosophy. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Slotemaker, John T., and Jeffrey C. Witt. 2015. A companion to the theology of John Mair. Leiden: E.J. Brill.
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Slotemaker, J.T. (2017). Mair, John. In: Sgarbi, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_519-1
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