Aristotle's De Interpretatione by C W A Whitaker
Aristotle's treatise De Interpretatione is one of his central works; it continues to be the focus of much attention and debate. C. W. A. Whitaker presents the first systematic study of this work, and offers a radical new view of its aims, its structure, and its place in Aristotle's system, basing this view upon a detailed chapter-by-chapter analysis.By treating the work systematically, rather than concentrating on certain selected passages, Whitaker is able to show that, contrary to traditional opinion, it forms an organized and coherent whole. He argues that the De Interpretatione is intended to provide the underpinning for dialectic, the system of argument by question and answer set out in Aristotle's Topics; and he rejects the traditional view that the De Interpretatione concerns the assertion and is oriented towards the formal logic of the Prior Analytics. In doing so, he sheds valuable new light on some of Aristotle's most famous texts.-
Time for Aristotle
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Aristotle on the Common Sense
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Doing and Being
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Aristotle on Meaning and Essence
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The Undivided Self
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Aristotle's Defence of Philosophy in the Protrepticus
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Aristotle on the Essence of Human Thought
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Aristotle on Teleology
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The Powers of Aristotle's Soul
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Aristotle on the Sources of the Ethical Life
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On Location
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Teleology, First Principles, and Scientific Method in Aristotle's Biology
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Political Authority and Obligation in Aristotle
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Order in Multiplicity
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Aristotle's Theory of Substance
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Passions and Persuasion in Aristotle's Rhetoric
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Aristotle on Knowledge and Learning
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Aristotle on Shame and Learning to Be Good
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Priority in Aristotle's Metaphysics
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How Aristotle gets by in Metaphysics Zeta
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Aristotle on the Apparent Good
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Aristotle on What Emotions Are
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Aristotle and the Eleatic One
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Space, Time, Matter, and Form
beautifully lucid and carefully reasoned.. the conventional wisdom is triumphantly refuted. Whitaker takes us through the de Interpretatione chapter by chapter, displaying it as a sequence of lessons for would-be dialecticians. He casts much new light on the overall structure and purpose of the remarks ... Before reading Whitaker, I too was in thrall to conventional wisdom; after reading Whitaker, things seemed to come into proper focus for the first time. Whitaker... uses his ingenuity to construct a reading that confronts, rather than evades, the subtleties of Aristotle's discussion, and to give, for the first time that I know of, a plausible account of them. * Nicholas Denyer, Mind *
C. W. A. Whitaker was formerly a Research Fellow at Peterhouse, Cambridge. This is his first book. He now lives in North Yorkshire.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780199254194 |
| ISBN 10 | 0199254192 |
| Title | Aristotle's De Interpretatione |
| Author | C W A Whitaker |
| Series | Oxford Aristotle Studies Series |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2002-09-19 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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