Aristotle's modal syllogistic is his study of patterns of reasoning about necessity and possibility. This volume provides a simple interpretation of Aristotle's modal syllogistic using standard predicate logic, making it accessible to a wide range of readers.

Makes Aristotle's system of modal syllogistic logic easily accessible to logicians and other logic savvy readers Uses standard predicate logic translations with (exclusively) de re modality to represent Aristotle's Greek Contains a line-by-line discussion of every modal syllogism in the Prior Analytics Distinguishes between two kinds of syllogistic terms to simplify Aristotle's modal logic

Autorentext
Adriane Rini received an A.B. in philosophy at Smith College, and a Ph.D. at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. She is the author of numerous articles on the history of modal logic. In 2003, she was awarded a Marsden Grant from the Royal Society of New Zealand for her research on Aristotle's logic. Subsequently, she has been working on a book, together with M.J. Cresswell, about the world-time parallel. In 2010, Rini is working on a project on the development of Quine's attitude to modal logic, for which she has been awarded a four month fellowship from the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts. Rini has taught at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, the University of California-Davis, Texas A&M University, Victoria University Wellington, and at Massey University, where she is currently a senior lecturer in philosophy.

Inhalt
Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- Part I: Modern Methods for Ancient Logic.- 1. The Non-Modal Syllogistic: An.Pr. A1-7.- 2. The Assertoric Syllogistic in LPC.- 3. A Realm of Darkness.- 4. Technicolour Terms.- 5. Representing Modality.- Part II: Necessity in the Syllogistic: An. Pr. 8-12.- 6. Syllogizing in Red: Trivializing the Modals.- 7. First-Figure Mixed Apodeictic Syllogisms.- 8. Modal Conversion in the Apodeictic Syllogistic.- 9. Against the Canonical Listings.- 10. Apodeictic Possibility.- Part III: Contingency in the Syllogistic: An. Pr. 13-22.- 11. Contingency (A13, A14).- 12. Realizing Possibilities.- 13. Barbara XQM.- 14. First Figure X+Q (A15).- 15. First Figure L+Q, Q+L (A16).- 16. Contingency in the 2nd Figure (A17, A18, A19).- 17. Contingency in the 3rd Figure (A20, A21, A22).- 18. Summary and Conclusion.- Appendix: The LPC Framework.- Bibliography.- Index.