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The Sea Battle and the Master Argument
Aristotle and Diodorus Cronus on the Metaphysics of the Future
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The Sea Battle and the Master Argument
Aristotle and Diodorus Cronus on the Metaphysics of the Future
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Table of contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 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