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


Richard. Gaskin
Bok Engelsk 1995 · Electronic books.
Annen tittel
Utgitt
Berlin : : De Gruyter, , 1995.
Omfang
1 online resource (420 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - 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 Comparison15 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 30-1Appendix 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. - The Sea Battle and the Master Argument: Aristotle and Diodorus Cronus on the Metaphysics of the Future (Quellen und Studien zur Philosophie)
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Dewey
160
ISBN
3110144301

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