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Readings (html files):

• The Ten-Minute Aristotle: an introduction to his life and his philosophy
• An Aristotle Bibliography
• Library Reserve List

Supplementary Texts:

Prior Analytics I.5-6: The First and Second Figures	html
Prior Analytics II.2: Excerpts on Truth and Validity	html
Posterior Analytics: supplementary texts (I.13 and II.1-2)	html

Handouts (pdf files):

• Aristotle on the Organization of the Sciences: some texts
• Aristotle’s Connecting Term Model of explanation
• Aristotle on definitions: some texts
• “In a subject” in the Categories: Three Interpretations
• Grice and Code on IZZing and HAZZing
• Definitions and the Tree of Porphyry
• Aristotle’s Definition of Motion (kinêsis) in Physics III.1
• “Being is Said in Many Ways” and senses of ‘exist’
• Analysis of Metaphysics Z.13-1038b
• An Inconsistency in Metaphysics Zeta?

Forthcoming articles:

• “Substances”, by S. Marc Cohen (article forthcoming in The Blackwell Companion to Aristotle, G. Anagnostopolous, ed. For personal use only; not to be copied or distributed without the express written consent of the author.)

Outlines (html files):

• An Outline of Metaphysics, Book Z

• Return to PHIL 433 Home Page