Course : History of Logic (L4)

Dear all,

This is the material for the exams. We will find (4) to (7) uploaded in the “Documents” in our e-class.

All the best,

Doukas

1. Barnes, Jonathan (2015). The Presocratic Philosophers. New York: Routledge: 155-175.
2. Doukas Kapantais – George Karamanolis, “The Implicit Commitment to Truth in Dialectical Games”, in Colin King and Venanzio Raspa (eds.), Aristotle’s Organon in Old and New Logic 1800- 1950, London: Bloomsbury 2005: 189-204.
3. Kneale, William Calvert & Kneale, Martha (1962). The Development of Logic. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Edited by Martha Kneale: 1-81, 478-512, 652-672.
4. Doukas Kapantais - George Karamanolis eds., (2025), Aristotle: The Prior Analytics, Book 1, chapters 1-22, Athens: Academy of Athens – in modern Greek: 13-79. As translated in “Introduction, Kapantais/Karamanolis I” and “Introduction, Kapantais/Karamanolis II.”
5. A PowerPoints presentations by me. The ones from my lecture for WLD.
6. My notes on Frege.
7. My notes on the Paradoxes. They are pp. 8-16 in the relevant file.

(1) and (3) are not among the primary material you need to go through. Read them in order to broaden your perspective and appreciate the general context. Notice also that among the claims made in them, there are some that are different from and/or contradict the ones advanced in our course. This is to be expected—welcome, even—at the graduate level.