New Essays on Aristotle's Organon

António Pedro Mesquita, Ricardo Santos, António Pedro Mesquita, Ricardo Santos

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• ISBN:
  9781003828679
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Ancient History
• Index: History

This collection of new essays by an international group of scholars closely examines the works of Aristotle's Organon.

The Organon is the general title given to the collection of Aristotle's logical works: Categories, De Interpretatione, Prior Analytics, Posterior Analytics, Topics, and Sophistical Refutations. This extremely influential collection gave Aristotle the reputation of being the founder of logic and has helped shaped the development of logic for over two millennia. The chapters in this volume cover topics pertaining to each of the six works traditionally included in the Organon as well as its manuscript tradition. In addition, a comprehensive introduction by the editors discusses Aristotle and logic, the composition and order of the Organon, and the authenticity, title, and chronology of the treatises that make up these works. As an appendix, the volume includes a new critical edition of the Greek text of Book 8 of the Topics.

New Essays on Aristotle's Organon offers a valuable insight into this collection for students and scholars working on Aristotle, the works of the Organon, or the philosophy of logic more broadly.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Contributors
• Abbreviations of Titles of Aristotle’s Works
• An Introduction to Aristotle’s Organon
• 1 Aristotle’s Categories: Ontology Without Hylomorphism
• 2 Are the Same Thoughts Shared by All People?
• 3 De Interpretatione 3 on Isolated Verbs
• 4 Truth and Formal Validity in the Prior Analytics
• 5 Aristotle on Negative Terms and Obversion
• 6 Proof and Demonstration: The Meanings of δεικνύναι in the Posterior Analytics
• 7 Causal Explanation and Demonstration in Posterior Analytics II 11
• 8 Aristotle on Multiple Demonstration: A Reading of Posterior Analytics II 17–8
• 9 Linguistic Theory and Dialectical Rules in the Topics
• 10 A Trouble-Maker for Translators: The Aristotelian Phrase τὸ τί ἦν εἶναι
• 11 How Do Differentiae Fit into Aristotle’s System of Predicables?
• 12 Misplaced Trust and Blind Reasoning: Aristotle on the Fallacy of Equivocation
• 13 On the Fallacy of Accident in Aristotle’s Sophistical Refutations
• 14 “Those Searching for Gold Dig Up a Lot of Earth” – On Contamination and Insertion in the Early Manuscript Tradition of the Organon: The Case of the Topics and the Sophistical Refutations
• Appendix 1: Discussion of (Putative) Insertions in the Archetype for the Topics and the Sophistical Refutations
• Appendix 2: The Prior and Posterior Analytics
• Appendix: A New Edition of the Eighth Book of Aristotle’s Topics
• Index of Passages
• Index of Names
• Index of Subjects