Aristotle’s Organon in Old and New Logic

Venanzio Raspa is Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Urbino, Italy.Colin Guthrie King is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Providence College, USA.

• List of ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Aristotle’s Organon in old and new logic, Colin Guthrie King and Venanzio RaspaPart I: Aristotle’s Organon in Old Logic1. Kant and the Debate on Aristotle’s Categories in the Nineteenth Century, Venanzio Raspa2. “Natural History of the Finite Spirit:” Hegel on Aristotle’s Logic, Giovanni Bonacina3. Hegelian Aristotelianism and the Philosophical Roots of Non-Classical Logics, Elena Ficara4. Jaime Balmes on the Principle of Non-Contradiction and the Foundations of Certainty, Ana Maria Mora Marquez5. Carl Prantl: Aristotle’s Organon and the Beginnings of Research in Philosophical Terminology, Gerald Hartung6. Heinrich Maier on Aristotle’s logic, Colin Guthrie King7. A Baconian’s Aristotle: The Whewell-Munro Debate on the Prior Analytics, Lukas M. Verburgt and James LennoxPart II: Aristotle’s Organon in New Logic8. Aristotle and Lukasiewicz on the Principle of Non-Contradiction, the Syllogism, and the Dictum de omni et nullo, Paolo Fait9. Dialectic, Existential Import, and the Square of Opposition, Mathieu Marion10. Dialectical Games as an Implicit Commitment to Truth, Doukas Kapantais and George Karamanolis11. Kurt Ebbinghaus: How the Choice of a Modern Formal Logic Influences our Interpretation of Aristotle’s Syllogistic, Zoe McConaughey12. Aristotle’s Logic and Peircean Abduction, Vera Shumalina13. Translation with Introduction of Olga Hahn, “On the Coefficients of a Logical Equation”, Richard Lawrence and Justin Vlasits Index

Reasoning in form, Enrico Berti used to pledge, ought to be taught starting from adolescence. That each young adult be empowered to know that what s/he says is true ought to be considered as a human right. This book showcases two centuries of readings of Aristotle’s Organon, one of the greatest books of the Western philosophical tradition. This book is about nineteenth-century and twentieth-centuries readings of Aristotle’s Organon. The time span goes from Kant to Lukasiewicz. It is correctly old and new logic, which are divided by the threshold of the quantification of the predicate achieved in Boolean logic. An introduction and twelve well-argued chapters make the case for the choice of subject matter and periodization.