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The Sea Battle and the Master Argument : Aristotle and Diodorus Cronus on the Metaphysics of the Future / Richard Gaskin.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Quellen und Studien zur Philosophie ; 40Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2011]Copyright date: ©1995Edition: Reprint 2010Description: 1 online resource (406 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783110144307
  • 9783110866346
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
I-XII -- 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 -- 407-408

I-XII -- 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 -- 407-408

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