PHIL661 Fatalism and Determinism in Ancient Greek Philosophy

Bibliography

Items marked '*' are required readings for this course. For each of these, there is an indication of how the item can be obtained.

Primary Sources

• *Aristotle. Categories, and De Interpretatione. Translated with notes by J. L. Ackrill. Electronic version
• *Aristotle. Metaphysics Book Θ. Translated with an introduction and commentary by Stephen Makin. Oxford University Press, 2006. Electronic version
• *Epictetus. Discourses II.19 (Link to Google Books copy of P. E. Matheson's translation (Oxford University Press, 1916), now in public domain.
• Epictetus. The Discourses. The Internet Classics Archive (NOTE: this link points to a text-only version of the full text of the Discourses. The HTML-formatted version available at the Internet Classics Archive is incomplete, and in particular it is missing all of Book II after Chapter 15; the Master Argument appears in Chapter 19)
• Epictetus. Discourses, Book I. Translated with an introduction and commentary by Robert F. Dobbin. Clarendon Press, 1998. Electronic version
• Long, A. A., and Sedley, David, eds. The Hellenistic Philosophers. 2 vols. Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Secondary Sources

• Adamson, Peter. "The Arabic Sea Battle: al-Fārābī on the Problem of Future Contingents." Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 88 [2006]: 163-188. (use Extenza).
• *Albritton, Rogers. "Present Truth and Future Contingency." Philosophical Review 66 [1957]: 29-46. (use JSTOR)
• Algra, Keimpe; Barnes, Jonathan; Mansfeld, Jaap; and Schofield, Malcolm, eds. The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy.Cambridge University Press, 1999,
• *Anscombe, G. E. M. "Aristotle and the Sea Battle." Mind 65 [1956]: 1-15. (use JSTOR)
• Bäck, Allan. "Sailing Through the Sea Battle." Ancient Philosophy 12 [1992]: 133-151.
• *Baltzly, Dirk. "Stoicism." Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
• Barnes, Jonathan, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle. Cambridge University Press, 1995.
• *Baylis, Charles A. "Are Some Propositions Neither True Nor False?" Philosophy of Science 3 [1936]: 156-166 (use University of Chicago Press).
• *Bobzien, Susanne. "Ancient Logic". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
• Bobzien, Susanne. "Chrysippus' Modal Logic and Its Relation to Philo and Diodorus", in Dialektiker und Stoiker, K. Döring and Th. Ebert (eds), Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1993.
• Bobzien, Susanne. Determinism and Freedom in Stoic Philosophy. Oxford University Press, 2002.
• *Bobzien, Susanne. "Dialectical School." Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
• Boethius. Commentaria in aristotelis De Interpretatione.
• *Brogaard, Berit. "Sea Battle Semantics." Philosophical Quarterly 58 [2007]: 326-335. (use EBSCOHost)
• Carson, Scott. Review of C. W. A. Whitaker, Aristotle's De Interpretatione: Contradiction and Dialectic. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 98.08.09 URL
• Christian, C. "Zur Interpretation der Diodoreischen Modalgesetze und der Diodoreischen Implikation." Anzeiger der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophische-Historische Klasse 101 [1964]: 235-243
• Crivelli, Paolo. Aristotle on Truth. Cambridge University Press, 2004.
• *Denyer, Nicholas. "Time and Modality in Diodorus Cronus." Theoria 47 [1981]: 31-53. (use Wiley Interscience)
• Döring, Klaus. Die Megariker. Kommentierte Sammlung der Testimonien.B. R. Grüner, 1972.
• Frede, Dorothea. Aristoteles und die Seeschlacht.
• Frede, Dorothea. "The Sea-Battle Reconsidered: A Defence of the Traditional Interpretation." Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 3 [1985]: 31-87
• *Frede, Dorothea. "Stoic Determinism." Chapter 5 in Inwood, The Cambridge Companion to Stoicism (chapter available through electronic reserves).
• Frede, Michael. Die stoische Logik. Göttingen: Vandenhoek & Ruprecht, 1974.
• Gaskin, R. The Sea-Battle and the Master Argument. Aristotle and Diodorus Cronus on the Metaphysics of the Future. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1995.
• *Gaskin, R. "Reconstructing the Master Argument: Response to Denyer". Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 78 [1996]: 181–91 (use Extenza).
• Giannantoni, Gabriele. Socraticorum Reliquiae. 4 vols. Naples: Edizioni dell'Ateneo, 1983-85.
• *Hintikka, Jaakko. "Aristotle and the `Master Argument' of Diodorus Cronus." American Philosophical Quarterly 1 [1964]: 101-114.(use Miscellaneous ejournals)
• *Hintikka, Jaakko. "The Once and Future Sea Fight: Aristotle's Discussion of Future Contingents in De Interpretatione IX". The Philosophical Review 73 [1964]: 461-492. (use JSTOR)
• Hintikka, Jaakko. Time and Necessity: Studies in Aristotle's Theory of Modality. Oxford University Press, 1973.
• Inwood, Brad, ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Stoics. Cambridge University Press, 2003. (Chapter 5 is on reserve)
• Kneale, William and Martha. The Development of Logic. Oxford University Press, 1972.
• Long, A. A., ed. Problems in Stoicism. London: Athlone Press, 1971
• Long, A. A. "Language and Thought in Stoicism." (75-113 in foregoing)
• *Lukasiewicz, Jan. "Philosophical Remarks on Many-Valued Systems of Propositional Calculus." Chapter 3 () in McCall, Storrs, Polish Logic 1920-1939 (Oxford University Press). (Chapter 3 is on reserve)
• Lukasiewicz, Jan. "Philosophische Bemerkungen zu mehrwertigen Systemen des Aussagenkalküls" Comptes Rendus des Seances de la Société des Sciences et des Lettres de Varsovie, III Classe, 23 [1930]: 51-77.
• *McKirahan, Richard. "Diodorus and Prior and the Master Argument." Synthese 42 [1979]: 223-253. (use Springer Standard Collection)
http://books.google.com/books?id=qf3M9Lm1eS0C&
• Marcus Aurelius. The Meditations. The Internet Classics Archive.
• Mates, Benson. Stoic Logic. University of California Press, 1961.
• Muller, Robert. Introduction à la pensée des Mégariques J. Vrin, 1988.
• Øhrstrøm, Peter, and F. V. Per Hasle. Temporal Logic: From Ancient Ideas to Artificial Intelligence. Springer, 2007.
• Peacock, Kent. "Aristotle's Sea Battle and the Kochen-Speck Theorem." at this URL.
• *Prior, Arthur. "Diodoran Modalities." Philosophical Quarterly 5 [1955]: 205-213. (use JSTOR)
• Prior, Arthur. Past, Present, and Future. Oxford University Press, 1967.
• *Prior, Arthur. "Three-Valued Logic and Future Contingents." Philosophical Quarterly 3 [1953]: 317-326 (use JSTOR).
• *Rescher, Nicholas. "An Interpretation of Aristotle's Doctrine of Future Contingency and Excluded Middle." In his Studies in the History of Arabic Logic (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1963) (chapter on electronic reserve)
• *Rice, Hugh. "Fatalism." Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
• *Ryle, Gilbert. "It Was to Be." Chapter 2 in Dilemmas. Cambridge University Press, 1954. (chapter on electronic reserve)
• Salles, Ricardo. The Stoics On Determinism and Compatibilism. Ashgate, 2005.
• *Saunders, John Turk. "A Sea Fight Tomorrow?" Philosophical Review 67 [1958]: 367-378 (use JSTOR).
• Schuhl, P.-M. Le Dominateur et les possibles. 1960.
• *Sedley, David. "Diodorus Cronus." Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
• *Sedley, David. "Diodorus Cronus and Hellenistic Philosophy." Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society, 203 NS 23 [1977]: 74-120.
• Seel, Gerhard, ed. Ammonius and the Seabattle: Texts, Commentary, and Essays. De Gruyter, 2000.
• *Shields, Christopher. "Aristotle." Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
• *Smith, Robin. "Aristotle's Logic."Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
• *Sorabji, Richard. "Tomorrow's Sea Battle. An Argument from Past Truth." Chapter 5 in Sorabji, Necessity, Cause, and Blame. Perspectives on Aristotle's Theory. Cornell University Press, 1980 (chapter on electronic reserve)
• *Strang, Colin. "Aristotle and the Sea Battle." Mind 69 [1960]: 447-465.(use JSTOR)
• *Taylor, Richard. "The Problem of Future Contingencies." Philosophical Review 66 [1957]: 1-28. (use JSTOR)(use JSTOR)
• Waterlow [Broadie], Sarah. Passage and Possibility: A Study of Aristotle’s Modal Concepts. Oxford University Press, 1982.
• *Whitaker, C. W. A. Aristotle's De Interpretatione: Contradiction and Dialectic. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.
• *White, Michael J. "Necessity and Unactualized Possibilities in Aristotle." Philosophical Studies 38 [1980]: 287-298.

Other Online Resources

• Philpapers link: http://philpapers.org/rec/WILAIA-4
• The Perseus Digital Library includes a huge amount of material concerning ancient Greece and Rome.
• The Perseus Greco-Roman Collection
• Epictetus' Discourses (Thomas Long translation)