The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Logic

Luca Castagnoli is the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Clarendon Associate Professor in Ancient Greek Philosophy at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Oriel College. He is the author of Ancient Self-Refutation (Cambridge, 2010) and the co-editor of Greek Memories: Theories and Practices (Cambridge, 2019). Paolo Fait is the Anthony Quinton Fellow in Classical Philosophy at New College, Oxford. He has published a translation and commentary on Aristotle's Sophistical Refutations (2007) and articles on Aristotle's logic and metaphysics.

• Part I. The Development of Logic in Antiquity: 1. The prehistory of logic Nicholas Denyer; 2. Aristotle and Theophrastus Paolo Fait; 3. Megarians and Stoics Karlheinz Hülser; 4. Late antiquity Benjamin Morison; Part II. Key Themes: 5. Truth as a logical property and the laws of being true Walter Cavini; 6. Definition Michael Ferejohn; 7. Terms and propositions Paolo Crivelli; 8. Validity and syllogism Luca Castagnoli and Paolo fait; 9. Demonstration Alexander Bown; 10. Modalities and modal logic Marko Malink; 11. Fallacies and paradoxes Luca Castagnoli; 12. Logic in ancient rhetoric Christof Rapp; 13. Ancient logic and ancient mathematics Reviel Netz; Part III. The Legacy of Ancient Logic: 14. Ancient logic in the middle ages John Marenbon; 15. Ancient logic from the Renaissance to the birth of mathematical logic Mirella Capozzi and Leila Haaparanta; 16. Ancient logic today John Woods.

'The contributions contained in the three parts of the volume each provide a self-contained presentation of the topic they deal with. As a whole, the contributions in the volume provide a coherent overview of the historical development, thematic focuses and subsequent receptions of ancient Greek logic. The authors demonstrate their excellent knowledge of the respective source material and their ability to provide a correct historical and theoretical assessment and classification without speculation.' Werner Stelzner, N.T.M