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Annotated Bibliography on Aristotle's Categories: A - J

Second Part: K - Z
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY ON ARISTOTLE'S CATEGORIES
1. Ackrill John. "Aristotle on "Good" and the Categories." In Islamic Philosophy and the Classical Tradition. Essays
Presented by His Friends and Pupils to Richard Walzer on His Seventieth Birthday , edited by Stern, S.M., Hourani,
Albert and Brown, Vivian. 17-25. London: Bruno Cassirer, 1972.

2. Allen Reginald E. "Individual Properties in Aristotle's Categories." Phronesis.A Journal for Ancient Philosophy 14
(1969): 31-39.

3. ———. "Substance and Predication in Aristotle's Categories." Phronesis.A Journal for Ancient Philosophy 1 (1973):
362-373.
Supplementary vol. I: Exegesis and argument. Studies in Greek philosophy presented to Gregory Vlastos - Edited
by E. N. Lee, A. P. D. Mourelatos, R. M. Rorty - Assen, Van Gorcum
4. Annas Julia. "Individuals in Aristotle's Categories: Two Queries." Phronesis.A Journal for Ancient Philosophy 19
(1974): 146-152.
"This article criticizes the attempt by Barrington Jones (Phronesis 1972) to apply Aristotle's analysis of 'One' in
Metaphysics I to the problem of non-substantial individuals in the Categories, to use his account to explain the
role of paronymy in the Categories. Doubts are raised about interpreting Aristotle to support either claim."
5. Anton John Peter. Aristotle's Theory of Contrariety. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1957.
Reprinted 1987 and 2000.
6. ———. "The Aristotelian Doctrine of 'Homonyma' in the Categories and Its Platonic Antecedents." Journal of the
History of Philosophy 6 (1968): 315-326.
Reprinted in: J. P. Anton - Categories and experience. Essays on Aristotelian themes - Oakdale, N.Y., Dowling College
Press, 1996, pp. 87-114.

"The doctrine of 'homonyma' formulated in the Categories and found in other early works was seriously debated
in ancient times. The earliest detection of 'homonyma' as a source of ambiguity goes back to Plato. Although he
made use of the concepts that figure in later formulations, there is no evidence that he offered a technical view
of 'homonyma,' based on their logical properties. The main portion of this article is given to an examination of
the sources in Plato's, Speusippus's, and Aristotle's interpretations of the use and nature of 'homonyma,' and
the place of this doctrine in their philosophies. The author defends the first chapter of the Categories as having
theoretical relevance and significance as a counter-Speusippean thesis. This is the first of two related articles;
in its sequel the author discusses the diverse ancient interpretations of Aristotle's doctrine as found in the
writings of the Commentators." [see: J. P. Anton - Ancient interpretations of Aristotle's doctrine of homonyma -
Journal of the History of Philosophy, 7, 1969, pp. 1-18]
7. ———. "The Meaning of 'O Logos Tes Ousias' in Categories 1a." Monist 52 (1968): 252-267.
Reprinted in: J. P. Anton - Categories and experience. Essays on Aristotelian themes - Oakdale, N.Y., Dowling College
Press, 1996, pp. 61-85.
8. ———. "Observations on Aristotle's Theory of Categories." Diotima.Epitheoresis Philosophikes Ereunes 3 (1975):
66-81.
Reprinted in: J. P. Anton - Categories and experience. Essays on Aristotelian themes - Oakdale, N.Y., Dowling College
Press, 1996, pp. 153-174.
9. ———. "On the Meaning of Kategoria in Aristotle's Categories." In Aristotle's Ontology , edited by Preus, Anthony
and Anton, John Peter. 3-18. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992.
Reprinted in: J. P. Anton - Categories and experience. Essays on Aristotelian themes - Oakdale, N.Y., Dowling College
Press, 1996, pp. 175-201.

"In a paper written in 1974 and subsequently published in 1975, (1) I argued that the Aristotelian texts,
particularly that of the Categories, allow for a parallel yet distinct interpretation to the traditional and prevalent
one that takes the categories to be terms, ultimate classes, types, and concepts. (2) My position there was that
the primary use of kategoria refers to well-formed statements made according to canons and, to be more
precise, to fundamental types of predication conforming to rules sustained by the ways of beings.
In trying to decide how Aristotle uses the term kathegoria in the treatise that bears the same name, Categories,
(3) provision must be made for the fact that there is nothing in the text to justify the meanings that ancient
commentators and also modern writers assigned to it and that found their way both into translations of
Aristotle's works and into the corpus of established terminology. (4) The present article is written in the hope
that it will contribute in some small measure to understanding why certain distinctions in the treatise

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Categories should have prevented interpreters from assigning the traditional meaning of "genera of being" to
the term category, hence giving it the meaning of "highest predicate" rather than "fundamental type of
predication"."

(1) Anton 1975, 67-81.

(2) The paper published here was presented at the December 28, 1983, meeting of the Society for Ancient
Greek Philosophy, Boston, MA.
(3) The title of the treatise was a subject of considerable dispute in antiquity. For a recent survey on this
problem see M. Frede 1987b, 11- 28. According to Frede "the question of authenticity is crucially linked to the
question of unity" (12). The problem of the unity covers the relation of the early part of the treatise to the part
that discusses the postpredicamenta.
(4) There are many surveys of interpretations concerning the categories. I do not plan to offer another survey,
for my main interest lies in the investigation into what we can learn about the theory of categories in the
Categories. Nor am I concerned with reproducing and commenting on the table of enumeration of the
"categories" in Aristotle's works. The list can be readily found in Apelt 1891, conveniently reproduced in Elders
1961, 194-96. One can still raise the question about the intent of the list or lists. If a defense of objections can
be made to the reading that makes the list of "categories" refer to classes of being, then we have an alternative
before us, which has not been adequately explored, namely whether the list refers not to classes of being or
classes of predicates, but to the types of statements that pertain to the attribution of genuine features present
in the entity named in the subject position. It is the existence of the concrete individual qua subject that sets
the context for the selective lists of relevant types of attribution.
10. ———. Categories and Experience. Essays on Aristotelian Themes. Oakdale: Dowling College Press, 1996.
Table of Contents: 1. Introduction 7; 2. Aristotle's Principle of Contradiction: Its Ontological Foundations and
Platonic Antecedents (1972) 35; 3. The Meaning of 0 Logos tes Ousias in Categories 1a (1968) 61; 4. The
Aristotelian Doctrine of Homonyma (1968) 87; 5. Ancient Interpretations of Aristotle's Homonyma (1969) 115; 6.
Observations on Aristotle's Theory of Categories (1975) 153; 7. On the Meaning of Kategoria in Aristotle's
Categories (1992) 175; 8. Aristotle's Theory of Categories and Post-Classical Ontologies (1981) 203; 9. The Unity
of Scientific Inquiry: The Scope of Ousia (1989) 215; 10. Revolutions and Reforms (1988) 237; 11. Politeia and
Paideia: The Structure of Constitutions (1988) 249; 12. Aristotle on Justice and Equity (1989) 279; 13. Ideal
Values and Cultural Action (1991) 293; 14. Timely Observations on Aristotle's Architectonic of Politike Techne
(1994) 307; Bibliography 325;
Index 333; About the Author 337-338;
11. Apelt Otto. "Die Kategorienlehre Des Aristoteles." In Beiträge Zur Geschichte Der Griechischen Philosophie. 101-216.
Leipzig: Teubner, 1891.
Reprint of the book: Aalen, Scientia Verlag, 1975
12. Aubel Madeleine van. "Accident, Catégories Et Prédicables Dans L'oeuvre D'aristote." Revue Philosophique de
Louvain 61 (1963): 361-401.

13. Aubenque Pierre. Le Problème De L'être Chez Aristote. Éssai Sur La Problématique Aristotélicienne. Paris: Presses
Universitaires de France, 1962.

14. ———. "Aristote Et Le Langage." Annales de la Faculté des Lettres d'Aix 43 (1967): 85-105.
Avec une "Note annexe sur les Catégories d'Aristote. Á propos d'une article de M. Benveniste" (pp.103-105) -
Émile Benveniste - Catègories de pensée et catégories de langage - Études Philosophiques, 4, 1958).
Réimprimé dans: P. Aubenque - Problèmes aristotéliciens. I. Philosophie théorique - Paris, Vrin 2009 pp. 11-30
15. Bäck Allan. Aristotle's Theory of Predication. Leyden: Brill, 2000.

16. Barnes Jonathan. "Homonymy in Aristotle and Speusippus." Classical Quarterly 21 (1971): 65-80.
"1. 'There are important differences between Aristotle's account of homonymy and synonymy on the one hand,
and Speusippus' on the other; in particular, Aristotle treated homonymy and synonymy as properties of things,
whereas Speusippus treated them as properties of words. Despite this difference, in certain significant
passages Aristotle fell under the influence of Speusippus and used the words "homonymous" and "synonymous"
in their Speusippean senses.'
These sentences are a rough expression of what I shall call the Hambruch thesis. The thesis was advanced by
Ernst Hambruch in 1904 in his remarkable monograph on the relation between Academic and early
Aristotelian logic. (*)
Hambruch singled out Topics A 15 as peculiarly Speusippean, and he conjectured that it was based on some
written work of Speusippus." p. 65

Ernst Hambruch, Logische Regeln der platonischen Schule in der aristotelischen Topik, Berlin, 1904, pp. 28-29.
[Reprinted, with Curt Arpe, Das ti en einai bei Aristoteles (1938), New York: Arno Press, 1976].
17. ———. "Les Catégories Et Les Catégories." In Les Catégories Et Leur Histoire. 11-80. Paris: Vrin, 2005.

18. Barthlein Karl. "Zur Aristotelischen Kategorienlehre." Philosophische Rundschau 33 (1986): 281-291.

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19. Baumer Michael R. "Chasing Aristotle's Categories Down the Tree of Grammar." Journal of Philosophical
Research 18 (1993): 341-349.
"This paper addresses the problem of the origin and principle of Aristotle's distinctions among the categories.
It explores the possibilities of reformulating and reviving the 'grammatical' theory, generally ascribed first to
Trendelenburg. the paper brings two new perspectives to the grammatical theory: that of Aristotle's own theory
of syntax and that of contemporary linguistic syntax and semantics. I put forth a provisional theory of
Aristotle's categories in which 1) I propose that the categories sets forth a theory of lexical structure, with the
ten categories emerging as lexical or semantic categories, and 2) I suggest conceptual links, both in Aristotle's
writings and in actuality, between these semantic categories and certain grammatical inflections."
20. Belardi Walter. "Le Categorie Aristoteliche Tra Grammatica E Linguaggio." In Filosofia Grammatica E Retorica
Nel Pensiero Antico. 147-165. Roma: Edizioni dell'Ateneo, 1985.
Versione riveduta di: Le categorie aristoteliche e la cultura linguistica dell'epoca , De Homine, 57, 1976 pp. 3-24.
21. Benveniste Émile. "Catégories De Pensée Et Catégories De Langue." Les Études Philosophiques 13 (1958): 419-429.
Reprinted in: É. Benveniste, Problèmes de linguistique générale, Paris: Gallimard, 1966, pp. 63-74; Translated in
English by Mary E. Meek as: Problems in general linguistics, Coral Gables: University of Miami Press, 1971.
22. Blackwell Richard J. "The Methodological Function of the Categories in Aristotle." New Scholasticism 31 (1957):
526-537.

23. Block Irving. "Predication in Aristotle." Philosophical Inquiry 1 (1978): 53-57.

"This article traces briefly the development of Aristotle's thoughts on predication as this progressed from the
Categories to the Posterior Analytics with the Topics coming somewhere in between. In the Categories predication
is only of essential attributes and the subject of a predicating statement need not be a substance. In the
Posterior Analytics, predication is the attribution of either essential or accidental attributes and the subject
must be a substance, otherwise it is not predication in the true sense. The Topics represents a half-way house in
between as it makes no mention of the predication-inherence distinction of the Categories on the one hand, and
on the other gives no predominance to the notion of substance when discussing the subject of predication, as
we find in Posterior Analytics."
24. Bodéüs Richard. "Aux Origines De La Doctrine Aristotélicienne Des Catégories." Revue de Philosophie Ancienne 2
(1984): 121-137.

25. ———. "Sur L'unité Stylistique Du Texte Des Catégories." In Aristotelica Secunda. Mélanges Offerts a Christian
Rutten, edited by Motte, André and Denooz, Joseph. 141-154. Liège: Université de Liège. Faculté de Philosophie
et Lettres, 1995.

26. ———. "En Relisant Le Début Des Catégories. L'expression Logos Tés Ousias." Revue des Études Grecques 109
(1996): 709-718.

27. ———. "Le Texte Grec Des "Catégories" D'aristote Et Le Témoignage Du Commentaire De Porphyre." Documenti
e Studi sulla Tradizione Filosofica Medievale 8 (1997): 121-142.

28. ———. "La Substance Première Des Catégories À Métaphysique." In La Métaphysique D'aristote. Perspectives
Contemporaines, edited by Narcy, Michel and Tordesillas, Alonso. 131-144. Paris: Vrin, 2005.

29. Bonelli Maddalena, and Guadalupe Masi Francesca, eds. Studi Sulle Categorie Di Aristotele. Amsterdam: Adolf M.
Hakkert, 2011.

30. Bonitz Hermann. "Über Die Kategorien Des Aristoteles." Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der
Wissenschaften 10 (1853): 591-645.
Reprinted Darmstadt, Wissenchaftliche Buch-Gesellschaft, 1967.

Translated in Italian: H. Bonitz - Sulle categorie di Aristotele - Prefazione, introduzione, progettazione e

impostazione editoriale di Giovanni Reale. Traduzione del testo tedesco e indici di Vincenzo Cicero - Milano,
Vita e Pensiero, 1995.
31. Brakas George. Aristotle's Concept of the Universal. Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1988.
Contents: Acknowledgments 1; Preface 3; I. Recent Views of Aristotle's Universal 11; II. The Definition of
Aristotle's Early Concept of the Universal 17; III. Interpretations of Aristotle's Doctrine of the Categories in
Recent Times 21; IV. A Consideration of the Main Interpretations 31; V. The Categories and the Meaning of 'an
Existent' at the Time of the Prior Analytics 55; VI. Fundamentals of Aristotle's Theory of the Simple Statement
at the Timer of the De Interpretatione and Prior Analytics 65; VII. Interpretations of 'Is Said of' in the Recent
Literature 77; VIII. The Senses of 'Is Asserted of' 87; IX. Aristotle's Early, Middle and Late Views of the
Universal 97; Selected Bibliography 111-113.
"A few years ago Edward Regis, Jr. pointed to a serious gap in Aristotelian studies:

The centrality of the 'one-many' problem or 'problem of universals' to epistemology and metaphysics is hardly

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an issue for argument. Questions regarding the metaphysical status of universals and their relation to
individuals, the process of 'concept formation', and the epistemological function of universals in predication
are classic ones in philosophy having originated with Socrates and Plato. In view of the contemporary interest
in these problems as well as the numerous studies of other topics treated of by Aristotle, it is a matter for at
least initial surprise that there exists no systematic account of his views on universals. This is partially
explicable by the fact that these questions are not dealt with by Aristotle in any single treatise or place in his
works; indeed, texts relevant to these problems are scattered throughout them all, from the Categories to the
Poetics, and even the fragments. In addition, many of the texts are, as one might expect, obscure, and some
apparently contradict others. Another factor which might help explain the situation is that there is a
traditional, 'orthodox' interpretation of Aristotle's thinking on these matters, which gives rise to the impression
that whatever he has to say on the topic is already known in sufficient detail, has been fully considered,
evaluated, and refuted, so that it would be pointless to pursue the matter further. This impression has little
basis in fact. The 'orthodox' interpretation has it that Aristotle is a 'moderate realist', holding that universals
exist somehow 'in' individuals. Taken as it stands, this interpretation is worse than unhelpful. It does not tell us
what a universal is, just that whatever it is, it exists 'in' things. The truth is that Aristotle's theory of universals
has never been satisfactorily stated by his interpreters...(1)

The following essay attemps to fill this gap in Aristotelian studies partially.(2) As I shall argue, Aristotle's view
of the universal went through three phases, and the essay attemps to give a systematic account of his early
concept of it, as well as a brief account of his middle and late views.
To claim that Aristotle's view of the universal went through three stages is to commit oneself to a certain
chronology, and I adopt the following in this essay.
(1) The Categories, Topics, Metaphysics Delta, De Interpretatione, and Prior Analytics are early works, and (2) were
written in that order. (3) The Parts of Animals and Metaphysics Z are later than this group, and (4) the Parts of
Animals is earlier than Metaphysics Z. Finally, (5) the De Anima and Metaphysics Lambda and M are later than this
second group. These claims, however, are not intended to deny that some parts of the works may have been
added later than the chronology adopted here would allow if interpreted strictly." (pp. 3-4)
(1) 'Aristotle on Universals', Thomist 40 (1976), p. 135.
(2) After this essay was written a small book dealing with universals in Aristotle was brought to my attention:
A. C. Lloyd's Form and. Universal in Aristotle (Liverpool: Francis Cairns, 1981). The main contention of this work
is that Aristotle was a conceptualist. This interpretation is stated and criticized later in this essay (see pp.
15-16, 40-41 and 55-63). Lloyd's book is reviewed by D. K. Modrak in The Journal of the History of Philosophy 21
(October 1983): 559-61.
32. Brentano Franz. Von Der Mannigfachen Bedeutung Des Seienden Nach Aristoteles. Freiburg im Bresgau: Herder,
1862.
Reprinted by Georg Olms, Hildesheim, 1960, 1963, 1984.
English translation: F. Brentano - On the several senses of Being in Aristotle - Edited and translated by Rolf George
- Berkeley, University of California Press, 1975.
33. Butler Travis. "The Homonymy of Signification in Aristotle." In Aristotle and After, edited by Sorabji, Richard.
117-126. London: Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, 1997.

34. Calogero Guido. I Fondamenti Della Logica Aristotelica. Firenze: Le Monnier, 1927.
Second edition with appendixes by Gabriele Giannantoni and Giovanna Sillitti - Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 1968.
35. Carr Jeffrey. Aristotle's Use of 'Genos' in Logic, Philosophy and Science. Bern: Peter Lang, 2009.

36. Carson Scott. "Aristotle on Existential Import and Nonreferring Subjects." Synthese 124 (2000): 343-360.

37. Caujolle-Zaslawsky Françoise. "Les Relatifs Dans Les Catégories." In Concepts Et Catégories Dans La Pensée Antique,
edited by Aubenque, Pierre. 167-195. Paris: Vrin, 1980.

38. Chen Chun-Hwan. "On Aristotle's Two Expressions: Kath' Hypokeimenou Leghesthai and En Hypokoimeno Einai."
Phronesis.A Journal for Ancient Philosophy 2 (1957): 148-159.

39. Cicero Vincenzo. "L'interpretazione Linguistica Delle Categorie Aristoteliche in E. Benveniste." In La Dottrina
Delle Categorie in Aristotele. 285-353. Milano: Vita e Pensiero, 1994.

40. Code Alan. "On the Origins of Some Aristotelian Theses About Predication." In How Things Are. Studies in
Predication and the History of Philosophy and Science, edited by Bogen, James and McGuire, James E., 101-131.
Dordrecht: Reidel, 1985.

41. Cohen S.Marc. "Kooky Objects Revisited: Aristotle's Ontology." Metaphilosophy 39 (2008): 3-19.
"This is an investigation of Aristotle's conception of accidental compounds (or ''kooky objects,'' as Gareth
Matthews has called them) -- entities such as the pale man and the musical man. I begin with Matthews's
pioneering work into kooky objects, and argue that they are not so far removed from our ordinary thinking as
is commonly supposed. I go on to assess their utility in solving some
familiar puzzles involving substitutivity in epistemic contexts, and compare the kooky object approach to more

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modern approaches involving the notion of referential opacity. I conclude by proposing that Aristotle provides
an implicit role for kooky objects in such metaphysical contexts as the Categories and Metaphysics."
42. Colin Bernard, and Rutten Christian. Aristote. Categoriae. Index Verborum. Liste De Fréquence. Liège: Centre
Informatique de Philosophie et Lettres, 1993.

43. Corkum Phil. "Aristotle on Nonsubstantial Individuals." Ancient Philosophy 29 (2009): 289-310.
"Aristotle's concerns, in his Categories, are disjoint from the problem of recurrence of properties, so there is no
way to determine, on the basis of the Categories alone, whether Aristotle was committed to the possibility of
recurrence or whether he held that properties are non-recurrent."
44. Couloubaritsis Lambros. "Legomenon Et Katégoroumenon Chez Aristote." In Philosophie Du Langage Et Grammaire
Dans L'antiquité. 219-238. Bruxelles: Ousia, 1986.

45. Courtine Jean-François. "Note Complémentaire Pour L'histoire Du Vocabulaire De L'être. Les Traductions
Latines D' Ousía Et La Compréhension Romano-Stoïcienne De L'être." In Concepts Et Catégories De La Pensée
Antique, edited by Aubenque, Pierre. 33-87. Paris: Vrin, 1980.
Reprinted and updated in: J-F. Courtine - Les catégories de l'être. Études de philosophie ancienne et médiévale -
Paris, Press Universitaires de France, 2003, pp. 11-77.
46. ———. "La Question Des Catégories: Le Débat Entre Trendelenburg Et Bonitz." In Aristote Au Xix Siècle, edited by
Thouard, Denis. 63-80. Villeneuve d'Ascq: Presses Unversitaires du Septentrion, 2004.

47. Derrida Jacques. "Le Supplément De Copule. La Philosophie Devant La Linguistique." In Marges De La
Philosophie. 211-246. Paris: Éditions de Minuit, 1972.

48. Dévéreux Daniel. "Inherence and Primary Substance in Aristotle's Categories." Ancient Philosophy 12 (1992):
113-131.
Reprinted in: L. P. Gerson (ed.) - Aristotle. Critical assessment. Volume I: Logic and metaphysics - London,
Routledge, 1999, pp. 52-72.

"I argue that Aristotle is committed to non-substantial particulars' in the Categories, i.e. entities predicable of
one, but not more than one, substance. I also offer an account of what Aristotle means by 'in a subject' which
allows for universal as well as particular attributes to be in a subject. The key element in the account offered is
using the way in which parts of a substance can exist separately (i.e., on their own) as a guide for
understanding the inseparability of things 'in a subject'. Things in a subject cannot exist 'on their own', apart
from the subject in which they inhere; this sort of inseparability applies to universal as well as particular
attributes. Towards the end, I discuss some implications of the Categories doctrine that parts of primary
substances (especially the soul and body) are themselves primary substances."
49. Driscoll John. "The Platonic Ancestry of Primary Substance." Phronesis.A Journal for Ancient Philosophy 24
(1979): 253-269.
"In this article I call attention to the fact that five of the characteristics of primary substances mentioned by
Aristotle in chapter V of the Categories correspond to characteristics of the spatial receptacle postulated by
Plato at Timaues 49-52. I then argue that the most important differences between the Timaues 49-52 and
Categories ontologies can be accounted for on the basis of G. E. L. Owen's thesis that the Sophist, among other
dialogues, was written after the Timaues."
50. Duerlinger James. "Predication and Inherence in Aristotle's Categories." Phronesis.A Journal for Ancient Philosophy
15 (1970): 179-203.

51. Duhot Jean-Joël. "L'authenticité Des Catégories." Revue de Philosophie Ancienne 12 (1994): 109-124.

52. Dumoulin Bertrand. "Sur L'authenticité Des Catégories D'aristote." In Concepts Et Catégories Dans La Pensée
Antique, edited by Aubenque, Pierre. 23-32. Paris: Vrin, 1980.

53. ———. "L'ousia Dans Les Catégories Et Dans La Métaphysique." In Zweifelhaftes Im Corpus Aristotelicum. Studien Zu
Einigen Dubia. Akten Des 9. Symposium Aristotelicum, Berlin, 7-16 September 1981, edited by Moraux, Paul and
Wiesner, Jürgen. 57-72. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1983.

54. Dupréel Eugène. "Aristote Et Le Traité Des Catégories." Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 22 (1909): 230-251.

55. Ebert Theodor. "Gattungen Der Prädikate Und Gattungen Des Seienden Bei Aristoteles: Zum Verhältnis Von
Kat. 4 Und Top. I.9." Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 67 (1985): 113-138.

56. Edel Abraham. "Aristotle's Categories and the Nature of Categorial Theory." Review of Metaphysics 29 (1975):

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45-65.

57. Elders Leo. Aristotle's Theory of the One. A Commentary on Book X of the Metaphysics. Assen: Van Gorcum, 1961.

58. Erginel Mehmet. "Non-Substantial Individuals in Aristotle's Categories." Oxford Studies in Ancient Philsophy 26
(2004): 185-212.
"The non-substantial individuals of Cat. 1 A 24-5 may be "in" several individual substances. The interpretation
commonly held by proponents of the traditional view is inconsistent with what Aristotle actually says in the
Categories, nor does it enjoy any other textual support."

59. Ermano Andrea. Substanz Als Existenz. Eine Philosophische Auslegung Der Prote Ousia. Mit Text, Übersetzung Und
Diskussion Von Aristoteles, Categoriae 1-5. Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 2000.

60. Esposti Ongaro Michele. "Dialettica E Grammatica Nella Dottrina Delle Categorie Di Aristotele."
Elenchos.Rivista di Studi sul Pensiero Antico 26 (2005): 33-64.
"In a critical response to R. Bodéüs (2001) recent conclusions regarding the title, authenticity and relation to
the Topics of the Categories, emphasizes the role of rhetorical practice and grammatical doctrine in the
deduction of the ten categories."
61. Fait Paolo. "La Predicazione Linguistica Nelle Categorie Di Aristotele." Rivista di Estetica 44 (2004): 23-36.
"The paper deals with the relations of being said of and being in which are indirectly introduced in Aristotle's'
Categories. Is Aristotle distinguishing two kinds of ontological predication, corresponding respectively to
essential predication and accidental predication, or not? Unlike many interpreters who answer this question in
the affirmative, I deny being in to be a kind of predication at all. My aim is to show that in the few passages of
the Categories in which Aristotle has recourse to a generic concept of predication, covering both essential and
accidental predication, what he has in mind is just linguistic predication. The problem with linguistic
predications, however, is that sometimes they do not mirror their ontological underpinnings, thereby
misleading people into such absurd positions as that held by the "late-learners" depicted in Plato's Sophist."
62. Findlay John N. "Aristotle and Eideticism." Philosophical Forum 37 (2006): 333-386.
Notes from a lecture given by the author in 1978 in which he summarizes his views on the first three sections of
Aristotle's Metaphysics 13 (M); Categories 1-9; Metaphysics Zeta, Eta, and Theta; Posterior analytics ; and Physics.
63. Flannery Kevin L. "The Synonymy of Homonyms." Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 81 (1999): 268-289.
"Simplicius reports in his commentary on Aristotle's Categories that Claudius Nicostratus and a certain Lucius
argued that there is a problem with Aristotle's definition of homonyms in the first chapter of the Categories. If
homonyms fall under that definition, they, qua homonyms, are not homonyms at all but synonyms, since they
share the name 'homonym' and also the definition of homonyms. The author of the present article discusses a
number of ancient and modern attempts to resolve this paradox, arguing that none of them is fully satisfactory.
He proposes, rather, the elimination of the words 'of being' from lines 1a2 and 1a4, a solution that finds support
in some of the oldest evidence regarding manuscripts that exists in Aristotelian studies."
64. Fonfara Dirk. Die Ousia-Lehren Des Aristoteles. Untersuchungen Zur Kategorienschrift Und Zur Metaphysik. Berlin: de
Gruyter, 2003.

65. Fraser Kyle. "Seriality and Demonstration in Aristotle's Ontology." Oxford Studies in Ancient Philsophy 25 (2003):
131-158.
"Metaphysics G and Z support a distinction between 'seriality' and 'focality' in demonstrations of ontological
structure, and a precise account of the categories as they appear in these books of the Metaphysics can be given
in the serial mode of demonstration. In appendix: On the Neoplatonist 'deduction' of the Categories."

From the review by Michael Pakaluk in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 06.18.2006: "It is commonly thought that
Aristotle distinguishes just two ways of classifying things: genus-species hierarchies; and pros hen or 'focally
related' analogues. Fraser considers whether we might take Aristotle's mention, at Met. IV.2.1005a11, of
classification "with reference to a serial ordering" (tôi ephechês), to be indicating a third. Aristotle's famous
remarks in De Anima, about how types of soul form a sequence (414b20-415a3), presumably refer to just that
sort of ordering. But the bulk of Fraser's paper is an examination of whether Aristotle regarded the categories,
too, as displaying that sort of ordering -- especially, that some categories are related to substance through the
mediation of other categories. It turns out that the evidence that Aristotle thought this is surprisingly good.
Fraser's program in examining this evidence is to develop, ultimately, an account of the method of the
Aristotelian metaphysics as being systematic and scientific; Fraser rejects the 'dialectical' interpretations of the
last several decades as over-influenced by ordinary language philosophy."
66. Frede Michael. "Categories in Aristotle." In Studies in Aristotle, edited by O'Meara, Dominic. 1-25. Washington:
Catholic University Press, 1981.
Reprinted in: M. Frede - Essays in Ancient Philosophy - Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, pp. 29-48.
67. ———. "The Title, Unity, and Authenticity of the Aristotelian Categories." In Essays in Ancient Philosophy . 11-28.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987.
English translation of: Titel, Einheit und Echtheit der aristotelischen Kategorienschrift - in: Paul Moraux, Jürgen
Wiesner (eds.), Zweifelhaftes im Corpus Aristotelicum. Studien zu einigen Dubia . Akten des 9. Symposium

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Aristotelicum, Berlin, 7-16 September 1981, Berlin, Walter de Gruyter, 1983, pp. 1-29.
68. ———. "Individuals in Aristotle." In Essays in Ancient Philosophy . 49-71. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota
Press, 1987.
English translation of: Individuen bei Aristoteles - Antike und Abendland, 24, 1978, pp. 16-39.
69. Fritz Kurt von. "Der Ursprung Der Aristotelischen Kategorienlehre." Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 40
(1931): 449-496.
Reprinted in: K. von Fritz, Schriften zur griechischen Logik, Stüttgart: Frommann-Holzboog, 1978, vol. 2, pp. 9-61
and in: Fritz-Peter Hager (ed.), Logik und erkenntnislehre des Aristoteles, Darmstadt, Wissenschaftliche
Buch-Gesellschaft, 1972.
70. ———. "Zur Aristotelischen Kategorienlehre." Philologus 90 (1935): 244-248.
Reprinted in: Fritz-Peter Hager (ed.) - Logik und Erkenntnislehre des Aristoteles - Darmstadt, Wissenschaftliche
Buchgesellschaft, 1972.
71. ———. "Review Of: The Place of the Categories of Being in Aristotle's Philosophy by L. M. De Rijk." Philosophical
Review 63 (1954): 600-605.

72. Furth Montgomery. Substance, Form and Psyche. An Aristotelean Metaphysics. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1988.

73. Garver Newton. "Notes for a Linguistic Reading of the Categories." In Ancient Logic and Its Modern Interpretations.
Proceedings of the Buffalo Symposium on Modernist Interpretations of Ancient Logic, 21 and 22 April, 1972, edited by
John, Corcoran. 27-32. Dordrecht: Reidel, 1974.
"1. If Aristotle's Categories provide a classification of things and not of sayings, as is traditionally insisted, the
things classified are at any rate `things that can be said'. It is interesting, therefore, to inquire whether the
Categories may be regarded as containing, in rudimentary form, results that might be more appropriately and
more completely presented in terms of current methods of linguistic analysis, applied to a level of language or
discourse that linguists usually ignore.
2. Both the name 'categories', which signifies predications or sayings, and the position of the work at the
beginning of the Organon, which deals with matters of logic and language, reinforce the temptation to interpret
the Categories linguistically. Although neither the title nor the position of the work in the corpus is directly due
to Aristotle, they do show that the inclination to treat the Categories as at least partially linguistic goes back to
the very earliest tradition of Aristotelian scholarship." p. 27
74. Gercke Alfred. "Ursprung Der Aristotelischen Kategorien." Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 4 (1891):
424-441.

75. Gillespie Charles Melville. "The Aristotelian Categories." Classical Quarterly 19 (1925): 79-84.
Reprinted in: J. Barnes, M. Schofield, R. Sorabji (eds.) - Articles on Aristotle - Vol. 3 - Metaphysics - London,
Duckworth, 1979, pp. 1-12
76. Graeser Andreas. "Probleme Der Kategorienlehre Des Aristoteles." Studia Philosophica.Jahrbuch der
Schweizerischen Philosophischen Gesellschaft 37 (1977): 59-81.

77. ———. "Aspekte Der Ontologie in Der Kategorienschrift." In Zweifelhaftes Im Corpus Aristotelicum. Studien Zu
Einigen Dubia. Akten Des 9. Symposium Aristotelicum, Berlin, 7-16 September 1981, edited by Moraux, Paul and
Wiesner, Jürgen. 30-56. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1983.

78. Graham Daniel W. Aristotle's Two Systems. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987.

79. Gregoric Pavel. "Quantities and Contraries : Aristotle's Categories 6, 5b11-6a18." Apeiron 39 (2006): 341-358.

80. Hacking Ian. "Aristotelian Categories and Cognitive Domains." Synthese 126 (2001): 473-515.
"This paper puts together an ancient and a recent approach to classificatory language, thought, and ontology.It
includes on the one hand an interpretation of Aristotle's ten categories, with remarks on his first category,
called (or translated as) substance in the Categories or What a thing is in the Topics. On the other hand is the idea
of domain-specific cognitive abilities urged in contemporary developmental psychology. Each family of ideas
can be used to understand the other. Neither the metaphysical nor the psychological approach is intrinsically
more fundamental; they complement each other. The paper incidentally clarifies distinct uses of the word
'category' in different disciplines, and also attempts to make explicit several notions of 'domain'. It also
examines Aristotle's most exotic and least discussed categories, being-in-a-position (e.g., sitting) and having-(on)
(e.g., armour). Finally the paper suggests a tentative connection between Fred Sommers' theory of types and
Aristotle's first category."
81. Hamlyn David W. "Aristotle on Predication." Phronesis.A Journal for Ancient Philosophy 6 (1961): 110-126.

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82. ———. "Focal Meaning." Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 78 (1978): 1-18.
"The Aristotelian doctrine of focal meaning or "pros hen" homonymy involves a doctrine of primary and
secondary meanings, as distinct from primary and secondary cases, such that the secondary meaning is
derivative from the primary. Aristotle seems to want to use this idea to establish an "ontological" dependence
of the secondary on the primary. Since he holds a realist theory of meaning there is circularity in this.
Aristotle's use of 'cosmological' types of argument is discussed, together with the question how far this kind of
argument can be supported by considerations about meaning. The general limitations on the use of the notion
of focal meaning are set out."
83. Heimsoeth Heinz. "Zum Geschichte Der Kategorienlehre." In Nicolai Hartmann, Der Denker Und Sein Werk.
Fünfzehn Abhandlungen Mit Einer Bibliographie, edited by Heimsoeth, Heinz and Heiss, Robert. 144-172.
Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1952.

84. Heinaman Robert. "Non-Substantial Individuals in the Categories." Phronesis.A Journal for Ancient Philosophy 26,
no. 295 (1981): 307.
"There is a dispute as to what sort of entity non-substantial individuals are in Aristotle's Categories. The
traditional interpretation holds that non-substantial individuals are individual qualities, quantities, etc. For
example, Socrates' white is an individual quality belonging to him alone, numerically distinct from (though
possibly specifically identical with) other individual colors. I will refer to these sorts of entities as 'individual
instances.'
The new interpretation (1) suggests instead that non-substantial individuals are atomic species such as a
specific shade of white that is indivisible into more specific shades. On this view, non-substantial individuals
are what we would call universals (2) which can be present in different individual substances, but are labelled
'individuals' by Aristotle because, like individual substances, there is nothing they are said of. (3)
In this paper I will defend the traditional account by attempting to show that it is supported by the slender
textual evidence that is available. I will begin by stating three serious objections to the traditional
interpretation. Next I will show that in works later than the Categories Aristotle accepted individual instances
of properties of the sort found in the Categories by the traditional interpretation. Finally, I will set out the
evidence that supports the traditional interpretation and answer the three objections."

(1) G. E. L. Owen, "Inherence," Phronesis (1965), pp. 97-105; Michael Frede, "Individuen bei Aristoteles,"
Antike and Abendland (1978), pp. 16-31. In fact, it is not clear to me what Professor Frede considers
non-substantial individuals to be. While he refers approvingly to Owen, Owen's account collapses the
distinction between eidei en and arithmo en in the case of non-substances whereas it appears that Frede
wishes to retain this distinction (pp. 23-24). Since he does not explain what individual non-substances which
are numerically different but specifically identical are supposed to be or in virtue of what they are numerically
different, by the "new interpretation" I will mean solely that explained in the text.
(2) This is not, as Allen, Matthews and Cohen think, an objection to the new interpretation (R. E. Allen,
"Individual Properties in Aristotle's Categories," Phronesis (1969), p. 37; Gary Matthews and S. Marc Cohen,
"The One and the Many," Review of Metaphysics (1968), pp. 640-41). There is no justification for the
presupposition that Aristotle must have used the terms 'individual' and 'universal' in the Categories in the
same way as in later works or as they are used today. (Of course, the word `katholou' does not appear in the
Categories).
(3) That is, for any individual x there is no y such that the name and definition of x are predicable of y
(2a19-27).
85. Hetherington Stephen. "A Note on Inherence." Ancient Philosophy (1984): 218-223.
"Aristotle's Categories quarters the world via the interaction of two relations -- the said-of relation and the
inherence relation. Aristotle's definition of the latter is unperspicuous, and many scholars have attempted its
clarification. The matter's still unresolved; for instance, Owen's important account is vague. I construct an
Aristotelian account of conceptual inherence; I then make Owen's account precise. Plausibly, the result is that
Aristotle's view of the world's structure is a little clearer."
86. Hinitkka Jaakko. "Aristotle and the Ambiguity of Ambiguity." Inquiry 2 (1959): 137-151.
Reprinted as Chapter 1 in: J. Hintikka - Time and necessity. Studies in Aristotle's theory of modality - Oxford, Oxford
University Press, 1973 pp. 1-26.
87. ———. "Different Kinds of Equivocation in Aristotle." Journal of the History of Philosophy 9 (1971): 368-371.

88. ———. "Semantical Games, the Alleged Ambiguity of 'Is' and Aristotelian Categories." Synthese 54 (1983):
443-468.
Reprinted in: J. Hintikka - Analysis of Aristotle - Selected Papers - Vol. 6, Dordrecht, Springer, 2004 , pp. 23-44.
89. ———. "The Varieties of Being in Aristotle." In The Logic of Being: Historical Studies, edited by Knuuttila, Simo
and Hinitkka, Jaakko. 81-114. Dodrecht: Kluwer, 1986.

90. Hirschberger Johannes. "Paronymie Und Analogie Bei Aristoteles." Philosophisches Jahrbuch 68 (1960): 191-203.

91. Hood Pamela M. Aristotle on the Category of Relation. Washington: University Press of America, 2004.
"Preface.
Many philosophers believe that Aristotle does not have, and indeed could not have, a theory of relation, even
one that accounts for relations involving two terms, i.e., dyadic relations. Aristotle's logical, metaphysical and

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ontological views, especially his substance-accident ontology, are seen as restricting Aristotle to only one-place
or monadic relations, and prohibiting the logical space for a separate entity, relation, to exist. Hence,
Aristotle's conception of relation is perceived to be so divergent from our own that it does not count as a theory
of relation at all. I aim to show that the critics are wrong to speak so poorly of Aristotle's account of relation.
I argue that Aristotle's theory has some of the basic features that a theory of relation must have. I begin in Part
One by sketching out the critics' charges. I then outline the main features of Aristotle's philosophy that inform
his treatment of the category of relation, and briefly survey Aristotle's discussion of relational issues scattered
throughout the corpus. Next, I present an exegesis of Aristotle's two central texts on relation, Categories 7 and
Metaphysics V 15, and discuss the various accounts of relational entities or relatives therein. In Part Two, I
examine two problems. First, I address the problem of how best to interpret Aristotle's relatives. Second, I
explore the epistemological difficulties stemming from Aristotle's view in the Categories that relation involves
two relative items or terms and that if one relative item is known definitely the other item must also be known
definitely.
I conclude that Aristotle's treatment of relatives reveals his commitment to the view that there be a dyad, i.e.,
at least two items, involved in a relation. Furthermore, I show that Aristotle includes in his theory something
that accounts for the relation itself, i.e., something approaching a logical relational predicate. I do not suggest
that Aristotle attempts to construct a relational theory comparable to our own. But I do suggest that given
Aristotle's grasp of the dyadic nature of relation, we have good reason to believe Aristotle's theory of relation is
more robust than many suspect."
92. Husik Isaac. "On the Categories of Aristotle." Philosophical Review 13 (1904): 514-528.
Reprinted (conjointed with Husik 1939) in: I. Husik - Philosophical essays, ancient, mediaeval, and modern - Edited
by Milton C. Nahm and Leo Strauss, Oxford, Blackwell, 1952, pp. 96-112.
93. ———. "The Authenticity of Aristotle's Categories." Journal of Philosophy 36 (1939): 427-433.
Reprinted (conjointed with Husik 1904) in: I. Husik - Philosophical essays, ancient, mediaeval, and modern - Edited
by Milton C. Nahm and Leo Strauss, Oxford, Blackwell, 1952, pp. 96-112.
94. Irwin Terence H. "Homonymy in Aristotle." Review of Metaphysics 34 (1981): 523-544.
"In the works of Aristotle, homonymy and multivocity are often the same, and neither is intended to mark
different senses of words. Aristotle searched for homonymy not to encourage skepticism, but to forestall
skepticism which might result from rejection of Plato's belief that every name had one essence."
95. ———. "Aristotle's Concept of Signification." In Language and Logos. Studies in Ancient Greek Philosophy Presented
to G. E. L. Owen, edited by Schofield, Malcolm and Nussbaum, Martha. 241-266. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1982.

96. Jacobs William. "Aristotle and Nonreferring Subjects." Phronesis.A Journal for Ancient Philosophy 24 (1979):
282-300.
"It is a widely accepted view amongst scholars that Aristotle believed that the subject of an assertion might fail
to refer. Two texts, De interpretatione XI 21 a 25-28 and Categories X 13 b 12-35, are generally cited as evidence
for this belief. In this paper I argue that both passages have previously been misunderstood and that Aristotle
did not accept the possible referential failure of the subject of an assertion. In section I, after first discussing
the standard interpretations of both texts, I note the difficulties which result from these accounts. In section II
I offer a brief general argument showing that Aristotle's own account of what an assertion is implies that it is
impossible for the subject of an assertion to fail to refer. In section III I present my own analysis of each
passage and show that when properly understood neither is in any way concerned with the problem of
referential failure."
97. Janko Richard. "A Fragment of Aristotle's Poetics from Porphyry, Concerning Synonymy." Classical Quarterly 32
(1982): 323-326.

98. Jansen Ludger. "Aristotle's Categories." Topoi 26 (2011): 153-158.

99. Jones Barrington. "Individuals in Aristotle's Categories." Phronesis.A Journal for Ancient Philosophy (1972):
107-123.
"It is argued that the notion of an individual, whether substantial or non-substantial, in Aristotle's Categories
can be satisfactorily explicated by taking seriously their characterization as things that are 'one in number'.
This is interpreted as 'what can be a unit in an enumeration'. 'A particular white' will then be 'some particular
substance's white'. On the basis of this account the notions of homonymy, synonymy and paronymy are
explicated in such a way that the three are on a par one with each of the others and that there is a clear
connection between the introduction of these notions and the remainder of the Categories."
100. ———. "An Introduction to the First Five Chapters of Aristotle's Categories." Phronesis.A Journal for Ancient
Philosophy 20 (1975): 146-172.

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