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The philosophical and philological study of Aristotle fragments and
lost works has fallen somewhat into the background since the
1960's. This is regrettable considering the different and
innovative directions the study of Aristotle has taken in the last
decades. This collection of new peer-reviewed essays applies the
latest developments and trends of analysis, criticism, and
methodology to the study of Aristotle's fragments. The individual
essays use the fragments as tools of interpretation, shed new light
on different areas of Aristotle philosophy, and lay bridges between
Aristotle's lost and extant works. The first part shows how
Aristotle frames parts of his own understanding of Philosophy in
his published, 'popular' work. The second part deals with issues of
philosophical interpretation in Aristotle's extant works which can
be illuminated by fragments of his lost works. The philosophical
issues treated in this section range from Theology to Natural
Science, Psychology, Politics, and Poetics. As a whole, the book
articulates a new approach to Aristotle's lost works, by providing
a reassessment and new methodological explorations of the
fragments.
This book reconstructs the theory of signification implicit in
Aristotle's De Interpretatione and its psychological background in
his writing De Anima, a project often envisioned by scholars but
never systematically undertaken. I begin by explaining what sort of
phonetic material, according to Aristotle, can be a significans and
a phone. To that end, I provide a physiological account of which
animal sounds count as phone, as well as a psychological evaluation
of the cognitive content of the phonai under consideration in De
Interpretatione: names, verbs, and assertive sentences. I then turn
to noemata, which, for Aristotle, are the psychological reference
and significata of names, verbs and assertive sentences. I explain
what, for Aristotle, are the logical properties a significatum must
have in order to be signified by the phonetic material of a name,
verb or assertive sentence, and why noemata can fulfil those
logical conditions. Finally, I elucidate the
significans-significatum relation without making use of the modern
semantic triangle. This approach is consonant with Aristotle's
methodology and breaks new ground by exploring the connection
between the linguistic and psychological aspects of Aristotle's
theory of signification.
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