Analyses of Aristotle

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. On Aristotle’s Notion of Existence

   • Jaakko Hintikka

   Pages 1-22

3. Semantical Games, the Alleged Ambiguity of “Is”, and Aristotelian Categories

   • Jaakko Hintikka

   Pages 23-43

4. Aristotle’s Theory of Thinking and Its Consequences for His Methodology

   • Jaakko Hintikka

   Pages 45-75

5. On the Role of Modality in Aristotle’s Metaphysics

   • Jaakko Hintikka

   Pages 77-85

6. On the Ingredients of An Aristotelian Science

   • Jaakko Hintikka

   Pages 87-99

7. Aristotelian Axiomatics and Geometrical Axiomotics

   • Jaakko Hintikka

   Pages 101-109

8. Aristotelian Induction

   • Jaakko Hintikka

   Pages 111-125

9. Aristotelian Explanations

   • Jaakko Hintikka

   Pages 127-138

10. Aristotle’s Incontinent Logician

    • Jaakko Hintikka

    Pages 139-152

11. On the Development of Aristotle’s Ideas of Scientific Method and the Structure of Science

    • Jaakko Hintikka

    Pages 153-174

12. What Was Aristotle Doing in His Early Logic, Anyway? A Reply to Woods and Hansen

    • Jaakko Hintikka

    Pages 175-182

13. Concepts of Scientific Method from Aristotle to Newton

    • Jaakko Hintikka

    Pages 183-192

14. The Fallacy of Fallacies

    • Jaakko Hintikka

    Pages 193-218

15. Socratic Questioning, Logic and Rhetoric

    • Jaakko Hintikka

    Pages 219-238

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.

• Aristotle
• epistemology
• logic
• metaphysics
• mind

• Boston University, USA

  Jaakko Hintikka

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.

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