Table of Contents

On Aristotle’s Notion of Existence.- Semantical Games, the Alleged Ambiguity of “Is”, and Aristotelian Categories.- Aristotle’s Theory of Thinking and Its Consequences for His Methodology.- On the Role of Modality in Aristotle’s Metaphysics.- On the Ingredients of An Aristotelian Science.- Aristotelian Axiomatics and Geometrical Axiomotics.- Aristotelian Induction.- Aristotelian Explanations.- Aristotle’s Incontinent Logician.- On the Development of Aristotle’s Ideas of Scientific Method and the Structure of Science.- What Was Aristotle Doing in His Early Logic, Anyway? A Reply to Woods and Hansen.- Concepts of Scientific Method from Aristotle to Newton.- The Fallacy of Fallacies.- Socratic Questioning, Logic and Rhetoric.

About the Author

Jaakko Hintikka is the author or co-author of thirty volumes and of some 300 scholarly articles in mathematical and philosophical logic, epistemology, language theory, philosophy of science, history of ideas and history of philosophy, including Aristotle, Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, Peirce, The Bloomsbury Group, Husserl and Wittgenstein. He has also been active in international scholarly organizations, most recently as the First Vice-President of FISP, Vice-President of IIP and Co-Chair of the American Organizing Committee of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy. He has been Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal Synthese and the Managing Editor of Synthese Library since 1965.