The Sea Battle and the Master Argument: Aristotle and Diodorus Cronus on the Metaphysics of the Future

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Preface Abbreviations 1 Preliminaries: Terminology and Notation 2 Aristotle and the Future Sea Battle: Introduction 3 The Opening Moves 4 The Fatalist’s Arguments 5 Aristotle’s Response: a First Approximation 6 Bivalence and Determinism 7 The Worn-out Cloak and the Principle of Plenitude 8 From Truth to Necessity: the Theory 9 From Truth to Necessity: Aristotelian Texts 10 Simple and Hypothetical Necessity 11 From Truth to Necessity: Peripatetic Texts 12 The Commentators’ Interpretation of De Interpretatione 9 13 Some Formalities 14 Metaphysics E.3 on Causal Determinism: a Comparison 15 Reconstructing the Master Argument of Diodorus Cronus: Introduction 16 Gassendi’s Proposal: a First Attempt 17 The Reconstructions of Zeller and Hintikka 18 Prior’s Reconstruction 19 The Consistency and Plausibility Constraints 20 Barreau’s ‘Stoic’ and ‘Diodorean’ Reconstructions 21 Vuillemin’s Reconstruction 22 The Proposed Reconstruction 23 The Responses of Cleanthes and Chrysippus 24 Diodorus and Cicero 25 Diodorus and Aristotle Appendix 1: Some Arabic and Medieval Interpretations of De Interpretatione 9 Appendix 2: Alexander on Foreknowledge and Contingency: DeFato 30–1 Appendix 3: [Alexander] Quaestio 1.4 Bibliography Index of Passages Cited from Ancient Authors Index of Arabic and Medieval Authors Index of Modern Authors General Index