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The sea battle and the master argument : Aristotle and Diodorus Cronus on the metaphysics of the future
- Title
- The sea battle and the master argument : Aristotle and Diodorus Cronus on the metaphysics of the future / by Richard Gaskin.
- Author
- Gaskin, Richard, 1960-
- Publication
- New York : W. de Gruyter, 1995.
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- Description
- xii, 406 pages; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Quellen und Studien zur Philosophie ; Bd. 40
- Uniform Title
- Quellen und Studien zur Philosophie ; Bd. 40.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Contents
- 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: De Fato 30-1 -- Appendix 3: [Alexander] Quaestio 1.4 -- Index of Passages Cited from Ancient Authors -- Index of Arabic and Medieval Authors -- Index of Modern Authors.
- ISBN
- 3110144301
- LCCN
- 95012124
- OCLC
- 187456887
- ocn187456887
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries