Logical Matters Essays in Ancient Philosophy II

by Barnes, Jonathan; Bonelli, Maddalena

• ISBN13: 9780199577521
• ISBN10: 0199577528
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-02-08
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The second volume of Jonathan Barnes' papers on ancient philosophy contains twenty-seven pieces under the broad heading ofLogic. 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.

Author Biography

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).

Table of Contents

Contents

Preface

Galen, Christians, logic

Cicero on logic

Logical form and logical matter

Grammar on Aristotle's terms

Peripatetic negations

Aristotle's Categories and Aristotle's 'categories'

Syllogistic and the classification of predicates

Speusippus and Aristotle on homonymy

Property in Aristotle's Topics

Sheep have four legs

The Law of Contradiction

Proofs and the syllogistic figures

Aristotle and Stoic logic

Theophrastus and Stoic logic

Terms and sentences: Theophrastus and wholly hypothetical syllogisms

Logic and the dialecticians

The Logical Investigations of Chrysippus

Piqana; sunnhmevna

What is a disjunction?

Medicine, experience, and logic

Meaning, saying, and thinking

Epicurus: meaning and thinking

Ammonius and adverbs

Priscian and connectors

Late Greek syllogistic

Boethius and the study of logic

Syllogistic in the anon Heiberg

Bibliography

Indexes

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