Logical matters / Jonathan Barnes ; edited by Maddalena Bonelli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barnes, Jonathan, 1942-

Contributor:

Bonelli, Maddalena.

Series:

Barnes, Jonathan, 1942- Essays in ancient philosophy ; 2.

Essays in ancient philosophy / Jonathan Barnes ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Ancient.

Logic.

Physical Description:

xv, 796 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press, 2012.

Summary:

The second volume of Jonathan Barnes' papers on ancient philosophy contains twenty-seven pieces under the broad heading of Logic. The volume also includes essays that were originally published in obscure places, and in foreign languages. All of the papers have been retouched, a few of them have been substantially revised, and papers originally published in French have been translated into English. The first three essays in the volume are of a general nature, being concerned with ancient views on the status of logic and with the distinction between formal and material inferences. The next nine items deal with different aspects of Aristotelian logic: the copula, negation, the categories, homonymy, and the principle of contradiction. Then come three papers about the connection (or lack of connection) between Aristotelian logic and Stoic logic. Two of the pieces discuss Theo-phrastus' theory of 'hypothetical' syllogisms. After that, the essays run more or less chronologically: a short notice on the Dialecticians, three essays on aspects of Stoic logic, a pair of papers on ancient theories of meaning, items on adverbs and connectors, on Philoponus and Boethius, and on an anonymous tract written in the autumn of 1007 AD. All in all, there is matter to divert scholars and students of ancient philosophy. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Galen, Christians, logic 1

2 Cicero on logic 22

3 Logical form and logical matter 43

4 Grammar on Aristotle's terms 147

5 Peripatetic negations 172

6 Aristotle's Categories and Aristotle's 'categories' 187

7 Syllogistic and the classification of predicates 266

8 Speusippus and Aristotle on homonymy 284

9 Property in Aristotle's Topics 312

10 'Sheep have four legs' 346

11 The law of contradiction 353

12 Proofs and the syllogistic figures 364

13 Aristotle and Stoic logic 382

14 Theophrastus and Stoic logic 413

15 Terms and sentences 433

16 Logic and the dialecticians 479

17 The Logical Investigations of Chrysippus 485

18 Πιθανα σ υννημ∈να 499

19 What is a disjunction? 512

20 Medicine, experience, and logic 538

21 Meaning, saying, and thinking 582

22 Epicurus: meaning and thinking 602

23 Ammonius and adverbs 621

24 Priscian and connectors 639

25 Late Greek syllogistic 659

26 Boethius and the study of logic 666

27 Syllogistic in the anon Heiberg 683.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [729]-750) and indexes.

ISBN:

9780199577521

0199577528

OCLC:

792885998