Aspects of Aristotle’s Logic of Modalities

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• One/ Subject and Programme.
• 1. Introduction.
• 2. Quandaries in recent Aristotle research.
• 3. The programme of this study.
• Notes to Chapter One.
• Two/ The General Doctrine I Some Theorems and Rules.
• 1. Multifariousness and common core.
• 2. A provisional assumption.
• 3. Common properties.
• 4. Comparisons.
• Notes to Chapter Two.
• Three/ The General Doctrine II Absolute and Qualified Modalities.
• 2. Qualified vs. absolute modalities.
• 3. Qualified necessity, syllogisms and the proof per impossibile.
• 4. Absolute impossibility and the commensurability of the diagonal.
• 5. Real and assumed background knowledge.
• 6. Relations between temporal and modal concepts.
• Notes to Chapter Three.
• Four/ Modality and Time (I) The Principle of Plenitude.
• 2. The Principle of Plenitude and its role in Aristotle’s modal thinking.
• 3. The evidence.
• Notes to Chapter Four.
• Five/ Modality and Time (II) De Caelo I.12 and The Necessity of What is Eternal.
• 1. The problem.
• 2. Williams and the supposed logical errors.
• 3. Hintikka and the confusion in Aristotle’s “Master Argument”.
• 4. Judson and the “grossness of Aristotle’s fallacy”.
• 5. The metaphysics in De Caelo I.12 as exposed by Waterlow.
• 6. De Caelo I.12 and the necessity of what is eternal.
• 7. Some extrapolations and the role of hylê phthartê.
• Notes to Chapter Five.
• Six/ Modality and Time (III) De Interpretations 9.
• 2. The traditional views.
• 3. De Interpretations 9 on the statistical reading.
• 4. Deliberation and chance events in De Interpretatione 9.
• 5. The interpretation.
• Notes to Chapter Six.
• Seven/ Posterior Analytics I.4–6 The De Omni-Per Se Distinction.
• 2. Zabarella on Aristotelian necessity.
• 3. Inseparable accidents.
• 4. Afirst look at Posterior Analytics I.4–6.
• 5. Some commentaries on Posterior Analytics I.4 and 6.
• 6. Real or conceptual modalities?.
• 7. Aristotle, matter, and definition.
• Notes to Chapter Seven.
• Eight/ Posterior Analytics I.4–6 Names and Naming.
• 1. Abstraction in Metaphysics XIII.3.
• 2. Abstraction and naming.
• 3. The issue of names and naming.
• 4. A new look at Posterior Analytics I.4–6, part one.
• 5. Some major differences.
• 6. A new look at Posterior Analytics 1.4-6, part two.
• 7. Belonging kath’ hauto and homogeneity.
• 8. Homogeneity, the necessity of what is always and the concept of possibility.
• Notes to Chapter Eight.
• Nine/ Apodeictic Syllogistic.
• 2. External criticism.
• 3. The nature of Aristotle’s syllogistic theory.
• 4. Apodeictic syllogistic.
• 5. Incoherence.
• 6. McCall’s reconstruction.
• 7. The four apodeictic categorical sentences and apodeictic ecthesis.
• 8. The apodeictic conversion rules.
• 9. The apodeictic Barbaras and domains of discourse.
• 10. The status of ALuu.
• 11. The soundness of the inference base.
• 12. Conversion rules and shifts of type of predication.
• 13. Conclusions.
• Notes to Chapter Nine.
• Index of Names.
• Index of Subjects.