The Sea Battle and the Master Argument

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Preface
Abbreviations
Preliminaries: Terminology and Notation	p. 1
Aristotle and the Future Sea Battle: Introduction	p. 12
The Opening Moves	p. 18
The Fatalist's Arguments	p. 24
Aristotle's Response: a First Approximation	p. 35
Bivalence and Determinism	p. 49
The Worn-out Cloak and the Principle of Plenitude	p. 54
From Truth to Necessity: the Theory	p. 79
From Truth to Necessity: Aristotelian Texts	p. 97
Simple and Hypothetical Necessity	p. 114
From Truth to Necessity: Peripatetic Texts	p. 128
The Commentators' Interpretation of De Interpretatione 9	p. 146
Some Formalities	p. 185
Metaphysics E.3 on Causal Determinism: a Comparison	p. 193
Reconstructing the Master Argument of Diodorus Cronus: Introduction	p. 217
Gassendi's Proposal: a First Attempt	p. 221
The Reconstructions of Zeller and Hintikka	p. 236
Prior's Reconstruction	p. 242
The Consistency and Plausibility Constraints	p. 261
Barreau's 'Stoic' and 'Diodorean' Reconstructions	p. 270
Vuillemin's Reconstruction	p. 276
The Proposed Reconstruction	p. 282
The Responses of Cleanthes and Chrysippus	p. 297
Diodorus and Cicero	p. 306
Diodorus and Aristotle	p. 319
Appendix 1: Some Arabic and Medieval Interpretations of De Interpretatione 9	p. 329
Appendix 2: Alexander on Foreknowledge and Contingency: De Fato 30-1	p. 351
Appendix 3: [Alexander] Quaestio 1.4	p. 368
Bibliography	p. 377
Index of Passages Cited from Ancient Authors	p. 389
Index of Arabic and Medieval Authors	p. 399
Index of Modern Authors	p. 400
General Index	p. 404
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