1st Edition
New Essays on Aristotle’s Organon
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.
An Introduction to Aristotle’s Organon - António Pedro Mesquita and Ricardo Santos; 1. Aristotle’s Categories: Ontology without Hylomorphism? - Marco Zingano; 2. Are the Same Thoughts Shared by All People? - Katerina Ierodiakonou; 3. De Interpretatione 3 on Isolated Verbs - Francesco Ademollo; 4. Truth and Formal Validity in the Prior Analytics - Paolo Crivelli; 5. Aristotle on Negative Terms and Obversion - Ricardo Santos; 6. Proof and Demonstration: the Meaning of δεικνύναι in the Posterior Analytics - Pierre-Marie Morel; 7. Causal Explanation and Demonstration in Posterior Analytics II 11 - Pierre Pellegrin; 8. Aristotle on Multiple Demonstration: A Reading of Posterior Analytics II 17-18 - David Bronstein and Breno Zuppolini; 9. Linguistic Theory and Dialectical Rules in the Topics - Colin Guthrie King; 10. A Trouble-Maker for Translators: the Aristotelian Phrase τὸ τί ἦν εἶναι - Hermann Weidemann; 11. How Do Differentiae Fit into Aristotle’s System of Predicables? - António Pedro Mesquita; 12. Misplaced Trust and Blind Reasoning: Aristotle on the Fallacy of Equivocation - Paolo Fait; 13. On the Fallacy of Accident in Aristotle’s Sophistical Refutations - Paulo Fernando Tadeu Ferreira; 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 - Pieter Sjoerd Hasper; Appendix 1: Discussion of (Putative) Insertions in the Archetype for the Topics and the Sophistical Refutations - Pieter Sjoerd Hasper; Appendix 2: The Prior and Posterior Analytics - Pieter Sjoerd Hasper; Appendix 3: Aristotelis Topica 8. New Critical Edition of the Eighth Book of Aristotle’s Topics - Pieter Sjoerd Hasper.
Biography
António Pedro Mesquita is Professor at the Department of Philosophy and Member of the HPhil Research Group of the Centre of Philosophy of the University of Lisbon.
Ricardo Santos is Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy and Member of the LanCog Research Group of the Centre of Philosophy of the University of Lisbon.
