Analyses of Aristotle Hardcover - 2004 - 2004th Edition

Name: ANALYSES OF ARISTOTLE
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Aristotle thought of his logic and methodology as applications of the Socratic questioning method. In particular, logic was originally a study of answers necessitated by earlier answers. For Aristotle, thought-experiments were real experiments in the sense that by realizing forms in one's mind, one can read off their properties and interrelations. Treating forms as independent entities, knowable one by one, committed Aristotle to his mode of syllogistic explanation. He did not think of existence, predication and identity as separate senses of estin. Aristotle thus serves as an example of a thinker who did not rely on the distinction between the allegedly different Fregean senses, thereby shedding new light on our own conceptual presuppositions.
This collection comprises several striking interpretations that Jaakko Hintikka has put forward over the years, constituting a challenge not only to Aristotelian scholars and historians of ideas, but to everyone interested in logic, epistemology or metaphysics and in their history.

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Details

Title Analyses of Aristotle
Author Jaakko Hintikka
Binding Hardcover
Edition number 2004th
Edition 2004
Pages 238
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Springer
Date 2004-03-31
ISBN 9781402020407 / 1402020406
Weight 1.19 lbs (0.54 kg)
Dimensions 9.7 x 6.44 x 0.72 in (24.64 x 16.36 x 1.83 cm)
Themes
- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
Library of Congress subjects Aristotle
Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004047568
Dewey Decimal Code 185

About the author

Jaakko Hintikka is the author or co-author of thirty volumes and of some 300 scholarly articles in mathematical and philosophical logic, epistemology, language theory, philosophy of science, history of ideas and history of philosophy, including Aristotle, Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, Peirce, The Bloomsbury Group, Husserl and Wittgenstein. He has also been active in international scholarly organizations, most recently as the First Vice-President of FISP, Vice-President of IIP and Co-Chair of the American Organizing Committee of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy. He has been Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal Synthese and the Managing Editor of Synthese Library since 1965.