Ανακοινώσεις μαθήματος History of Logic (L4)

exams

Sun, 08 Feb 2026 12:14:44 +0300

Dear students of History of Logic (L4),

This is a reminder of the date and time of the exams.

Friday 13, 12:00–15:00, in the new building of the department.

With kind regards,
Doukas Kapantais

material

Sat, 17 Jan 2026 19:42:08 +0300

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

Barnes, Jonathan (2015). The Presocratic Philosophers. New York: Routledge: 155-175.
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.
Kneale, William Calvert & Kneale, Martha (1962). The Development of Logic. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Edited by Martha Kneale: 1-81, 478-512, 652-672.
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.”
A PowerPoints presentations by me. The ones from my lecture for WLD.
My notes on Frege.
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.

Exams

Sat, 17 Jan 2026 19:30:07 +0300

Dear all,

Exams will consist of a written assessment in a date that we will agree upon on Thursday 22, 12-3pm when we meet. I am not entirely clear yet regarding the exact format. We will discuss details in situ.

We will receive the material for the exams in another message.

On Monday, I will also send a number of figures. Some are missing from the Frege notes, and another is a visual representation of the logic–metalogic interaction in the Prior Analytics.

All the best,

Doukas

on the "puzzle"

Wed, 03 Dec 2025 15:36:59 +0300

Dear all,

On second thought, the new attachment in “Documents” is not an assignment. This is an easy puzzle, but the phrasing might be confusing for someone who is not well accustomed to the Syllogistic. So have fun with it, and we will say a few things about it tomorrow. If you come up with the solution, even better.

Best,

clarification 2nd assignment

Sat, 22 Nov 2025 16:22:14 +0300

Regarding the 2nd assignment and a request for further clarifications that was asked of me, you might consider the following path.

You might provide two interpretations of line (5) in the argument, depicting a distribution over the domains of existent and possibly existent objects, such that one of them vindicates the second way of inquiry and the other does not.

Other approaches are welcome too.

2nd assignment

Sat, 22 Nov 2025 11:57:18 +0300

Dear all,

I have changed my mind over the assignment for this week. Instead of Melissus’ thesis, we go back to Parmenides. This remains, of course, an assignment for you, but I mean it as a test for myself as well. The answer and the justification ought to be clear by now. Again, no more than one page.

Please find the asigment in Documents.

NB. I need to have this by Thursday night.

All the best,

Documents

Thu, 06 Nov 2025 12:31:44 +0300

Dear all,

I have uploaded two documents that we are going to discuss tomorrow.
One is a paper of mine co-authored with George Karamanolis and the other a chapter from Jonathan Barnes’ The Presocratic Philosophers. If you have time, have a look. Never mind, for the time being, the other one.

NB. Because of some general rescheduling of the timetable another course takes place on Fridays from 12 to 3, We meet at 3pm. Not at 12!

All the best,

Doukas Kapantais