Logical Matters: Essays in Ancient Philosophy II

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. Cover Contents Acknowledgements 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 16. Logic and the dialecticians 17. The Logical Investigations of Chrysippus 18. (omitted) 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 Index of Passages General Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Z