
Logical Matters
Essays in Ancient Philosophy II
Jonathan Barnes(Author)
Maddalena Bonelli(Editor)
Oxford University Press
1st Edition
Published on 13. December 2012
Book
Hardback
814 pages
978-0-19-957752-1 (ISBN)
Description
The second volume of Jonathan Barnes' papers on ancient philosophy contains twenty-seven pieces under the broad heading of Logic. The essays were written over a period of some forty years. Some of them were published in obscure places (and two or three of them in a foreign language). The French essays have been done into English; and all the essays have been retouched, and a few of them substantially revised.
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 Theophrastus' theory of 'hypothetical' syllogisms. After that, things 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.
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 Theophrastus' theory of 'hypothetical' syllogisms. After that, things 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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Students and scholars of ancient philosophy and logic.
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 48 mm
Weight
1371 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-957752-1 (9780199577521)
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Persons
Jonathan Barnes taught at Oxford for 25 years, being a Fellow first of Oriel and then of Balliol. He then spent eight years at the University of Geneva, before becoming Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the Sorbonne. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His many publications include The Ontological Argument (Macmillan, 1972); Aristotle's Posterior Analytics (Clarendon Press, 2nd edition 1993); Aristotle (OUP, 1982); The Complete Works of Aristotle (Princeton UP, 1984); Truth, etc. (Clarendon Press, 2007); and Method and Metaphysics: Essays in Ancient Philosophy I (OUP, 2011); with J. Annas, The Modes of Scepticism (CUP, 1985); Early Greek Philosophy (Penguin, 1987); The Toils of Scepticism (CUP, 1990); The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle (CUP, 1995); Porphyry: Introduction (Clarendon Press, 2003).
Author
, Universite de Paris-Sorbonne, Emeritus
Editor
University of Bergamo
Content
Contents ; Preface ; 1. Galen, Christians, logic ; 2. Cicero on logic ; 3. Logical form and logical matter ; 4. Grammar on Aristotle's terms ; 5. Peripatetic negations ; 6. Aristotle's Categories and Aristotle's 'categories' ; 7. Syllogistic and the classification of predicates ; 8. Speusippus and Aristotle on homonymy ; 9. Property in Aristotle's Topics ; 10. Sheep have four legs ; 11. The Law of Contradiction ; 12. Proofs and the syllogistic figures ; 13. Aristotle and Stoic logic ; 14. Theophrastus and Stoic logic ; 15. Terms and sentences: Theophrastus and wholly hypothetical syllogisms ; 16. Logic and the dialecticians ; 17. The Logical Investigations of Chrysippus ; 18. Piqana; sunnhmevna ; 19. What is a disjunction? ; 20. Medicine, experience, and logic ; 21. Meaning, saying, and thinking ; 22. Epicurus: meaning and thinking ; 23. Ammonius and adverbs ; 24. Priscian and connectors ; 25. Late Greek syllogistic ; 26. Boethius and the study of logic ; 27. Syllogistic in the anon Heiberg ; Bibliography ; Indexes