Selected Primary Texts, Translations and Commentaries

Aristotle

• Ackrill, J. L., 1963. Translation and commentary. Aristotle’s Categories and De Interpretatione. Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
• Barnes, J., 1975. Translation with notes. Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics. Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 1984. The Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised Oxford Translation. Princeton: Princeton University Press, vols 1 and 2. (Scholar)
• –––, 1994. Translation with notes. Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics. 2nd edition. Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
• Irwin, T. H. and Fine, G., 1995. Translation with introduction, notes and glossary. Aristotle: Selections. Indianapolis: Hackett. (Scholar)
• Jaeger, W., 1951. Aristotelis Metaphysica. Oxford Classical Text. Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
• Kirwan, Christopher, 1993. Translation with notes. Aristotle’s Metaphysics Books Gamma, Delta and Epsilon. 2nd edition. Oxford:Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
• Madigan, Arthur S. J., 1993. Translation. Alexander of Aphrodisias: On Aristotle’s Metaphysics 4, with appendix by Richard Sorabji. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. (Scholar)
• Minio-Paluello, L. (ed.), 1949. Aristotelis Categoriae et Liber De Interpretatione. Oxford Classical Text. Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
• Ross, W. D., 1923. Greek text and commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics, vols 1 and 2. Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 1928. Translation of Aristotle’s Metaphysics. 2nd edition. For example, in Richard McKeon (ed.) The Basic Works of Aristotle. New York: Random House, 1941. (Scholar)
• Ross, W.D. (ed.), 1958. Aristotelis Topica et Sophistici Elenchii. Oxford Classical Text. Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 1964. Aristotelis Analytica et Posteriora, with preface and appendix by L. Minio-Paluello. Oxford Classical Text. Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
• Rowan, J., 1961. Translation. Saint Thomas Aquinas’s Commentary on the Metaphysics of Aristotle. Chicago: H. Regnery Co. (Scholar)

Plato

• Burnet, J. (ed.), 1900. Platonis Opera I: Euthyphro, Apologia, Crito, Phaedo, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophista, Politicus. Oxford Classical Text. Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
• Burnyeat, M.F., 1990. The Theaetetus of Plato. Translation by M.J. Levett, revised by M.F. Burnyeat, and an introduction by M. F. Burnyeat. Indianapolis/Cambridge: Hackett. (Scholar)
• Duke, E. A., Hicken, W. F., Nicoll, W. S. M., Robinson, D. B., and Strachan, J.C.G. (eds.), 1995. Platonis Opera I: Euthyphro, Apologia, Crito, Phaedo, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophista, Politicus. Oxford Classical Text. Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
• McDowell, John, 1973. Translation with notes. Plato’s Theaetetus. Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)

Selected Secondary Literature

• Annas, Julia, 1986. “Doing without Objective Values: Ancient and Modern Strategies,” in Malcolm Schofield and Gisela Striker (eds.) The Norms of Nature: Studies in Hellenistic Ethics, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 3–29. (Scholar)
• Annas, Julia and Barnes, Jonathan, 1985. The Modes of Scepticism: Ancient Texts and Modern Interpretations, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2000. Translation. Sextus Empiricus: Outlines of Scepticism, 2nd Edition, New York: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Anscombe, G. E. M., 1967. “Aristotle,” in G.E.M. Anscombe and P.T. Geach. Three Philosophers, Oxford: Blackwell. (Scholar)
• Anscombe, G. E. M. and Von Wright, G. H. (eds.), 1969. Wittgenstein: On Certainty, Evanston: Harper and Row. (Scholar)
• Aquinas, Thomas. Commentarium in libros Posteriorum Analyticorum, in Opera Omnia, Rome: Vatican Polyglot Press, Volume 1, 1882, Leonine Edition. (Scholar)
• Bailey, D.T.J., 2006. “Plato and Aristotle on the Unhypothetical.” Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, 30: 101–106. (Scholar)
• Baltzly, Dirk, 1999. “Aristotle and Platonic Dialectic in Metaphysics, Gamma 4,” in Shiner 1999. (Scholar)
• Barnes, Jonathan, 1969. “The Law of Contradiction,” Philosophical Quarterly, 19: 302–9. (Scholar)
• Bett, Richard, 2000. Pyrrho, his Antecedents and his Legacy, Oxford: Clarendon Press (pbk, 2003), especially ch. 3. (Scholar)
• Bett, Richard (ed.), 2010. The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Scepticism, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Bostock, David, 1988. Plato’s Theaetetus, Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
• Brinkmann, Klaus, 1994. “Commentary on Gottlieb,” Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, 8: 199–208. (Scholar)
• Broadie, Sarah Waterlow, 1977. “Protagoras and Inconsistency: Theaetetus 171a6–c7,” Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, 59: 22–36. (Scholar)
• Burnyeat, M.F., 1969. “Conflicting Appearances,” Proceedings of the British Academy, 65: 69–111. (Scholar)
• Burnyeat, M. F., 1975. “Protagoras and Self-Refutation in later Greek Philosophy,” Philosophical Review, 84: 44–69. (Scholar)
• –––, 1976. “Protagoras and Self-Refutation in Plato’s Theaetetus,” Philosophical Review, 85: 172–95; reprinted in Epistemology: Companions to ancient thought, I. Stephen Everson (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. (Scholar)
• –––, 1983. “Can the sceptic live his scepticism?” in M. F. Burnyeat (ed.), The Sceptical Tradition, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983. (Scholar)
• Bury, R. G., 1933. Text and Translation. Sextus Empiricus: Outlines of Pyrrhonism, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, vols 1–2. (Scholar)
• Carroll, Lewis, 1895. “What the Tortoise said to Achilles,” Mind, 4(14): 278–80. [Reprint available online] (Scholar)
• Cassin, B., 1993. “Il senso di Gamma e la strategia di Aristotele contro i Presocratici in Metafisica iv”. Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica, 85: 533–565. (Scholar)
• Cassin, B and Narcy, M., 1989. La Décision du Sens, Paris: J. Vrin. (Scholar)
• Castagnoli, L., 2010. Ancient Self-Refutation, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Chappell, Timothy D. J., 2005. Reading Plato’s Theaetetus, Indianapolis: Hackett. (Scholar)
• Charles, David, 2000. Aristotle on Meaning and Essence, Oxford: Clarendon Press, especially Appendix 1. (Scholar)
• Code, A., 1986. “Aristotle’s investigation of a basic logical principle,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 16(3): 341–358. (Scholar)
• –––, 2010. “Aristotle and the History of Scepticism,” in Ancient Models of Mind: Studies in Human and Divine Rationality, Nightingale and Sedley (eds.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Cohen, S. Marc, 1986. “Aristotle on the Principle of Non-Contradiction,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 16(3): 359–370. (Scholar)
• Cooper, John M., 2004. “Plato on Sense-Perception and Knowledge (Tht, 184–186),” in John M. Cooper, Knowledge, Nature and the Good: Essays on Ancient Philosophy, Princeton University Press, 43–64. (Scholar)
• Coren, Daniel, 2018. “Why Does Aristotle Defend the Principle of Non-Contradiction Against its Contrary?” The Philosophical Forum, 49(1): 39–59. (Scholar)
• Cresswell, M. J., 2003. “Non-Contradiction and Substantial Predication,” Theoria, 69: 166–183. (Scholar)
• Crivelli, Paolo, 2004. Aristotle on Truth, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Dancy, R. M., 1975. Sense and Contradiction, Dordrecht: Reidel. (Scholar)
• Degnan, Michael J., 1999. “What is the Scope of Aristotle’s Defense of the PNC?” in Shiner 1999. (Scholar)
• Denyer, Nicholas, 1990. Language, Thought and Falsehood in Ancient Greek Philosophy, London and New York: Routledge. (Scholar)
• Dutilh Novaes, Catarina, 2008. “A Comparative Taxonomy of Medieval and Modern Approaches to Liar Sentences.” History and Philosophy of Logic, 29(3): 227–61. (Scholar)
• Erginel, M., 2009. “Relativism and Self-Refutation in the Theaetetus,” Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, 36: 1–45. (Scholar)
• Evans, J. D. G., 1974. “Aristotle on Relativism,” Philosophical Quarterly, 24: 193–203. (Scholar)
• Fine, Gail, 2003. Plato on Knowledge and Forms, New York.: Oxford University Press, especially chs. 6–8. (Scholar)
• Furth, Montgomery, 1986. “A Note on Aristotle’s Principle of Non-Contradiction,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 16(3): 371–81. (Scholar)
• Gottlieb, Paula, 1994. “The Principle of Non-Contradiction and Protagoras: The Strategy of Aristotle’s Metaphysics IV 4,” Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, 8: 183–209. (Scholar)
• Halper, Edward, 1984. “Aristotle on the Extension of Non-Contradiction,” History of Philosophy Quarterly, 1(4): 369–80. (Scholar)
• –––, 2009. One and Many in Aristotle’s Metaphysics Alpha-Delta, Las Vegas, Nevada: Parmenides, especially ch. 5, sections 5.9–5.10. (Scholar)
• Hudry, Jean-Louis, 2013. “Aristotle on Non-Contradiction: Philosophers vs Non-Philosophers,”Ancient Philosophy, 7(2): 52–74. (Scholar)
• Husik, I., 1906. “Aristotle on the Law of Contradiction and the Basis of the Syllogism,” Mind, 15: 215–22. (Scholar)
• Irwin, T. H., 1977. “Aristotle’s Discovery of Metaphysics,” Review of Metaphysics, 31: 210–29. (Scholar)
• –––, 1988. Aristotle’s First Principles. Oxford: Oxford University Press, especially ch. 9, sections 98–106. (Scholar)
• Keeling, Evan, 2013. “Aristotle, Protagoras, and Contradiction: Metaphysics IV 4–6,” Journal of Ancient Philosophy, 7(2): 75–99. (Scholar)
• Kenny, A J. P., 1967. “The Argument from Illusion in Aristotle’s Metaphysics,” Mind, 76: 184–97. (Scholar)
• Kerferd, G. B., 1949. “Plato’s account of the relativism of Protagoras,” University of Durham Journal (New Series), 11(1): 20–26. (Scholar)
• Lear, Jonathan, 1980. Aristotle and Logical Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 1988. Aristotle: the desire to understand, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, especially ch. 6, section 6.4. (Scholar)
• Lee, Mi-Kyoung, 2005. Epistemology after Protagoras: Responses to Relativism in Plato, Aristotle and Democritus, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2010. “Antecedents in Early Greek Philosophy,” in Bett 2010, 13–35. (Scholar)
• Lewis, David, 2004. “Letters to Priest and Beall,” In Priest, Beall and Armour-Garb (eds.) 2004, 176–77. (Scholar)
• Long, A. A., 1981. “Aristotle and the history of Greek scepticism,” in D. J. O. O’Meara (ed.), Studies in Aristotle, Washington D.C: Catholic University of America Press, 1981, 79–106. (Scholar)
• Łukasiewicz, J., 1910. “Aristotle on the law of contradiction,” in J. Barnes, M. Schofield, and R. Sorabji (eds.), Articles on Aristotle, vol. 3 Metaphysics. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1979. (Scholar)
• Mackie, J. L., 1964. “Self-Refutation: a formal analysis,” Philosophical Quarterly, 14: 193–203. (Scholar)
• Martinich, A. P. (ed.), 2006. The Philosophy of Language, 5th edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• McKirahan, Richard D., 2014. Philoponus: on Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics I. 9–18, London: Bloomsbury. (Scholar)
• Meiland, J. W., 1977, “Concepts of Relative Truth,” Monist, 60: 568–82. (Scholar)
• Moore, F. C. T., 1975. “Evans off Target,” Philosophical Quarterly, 25: 58–9. [A reply to Evans 1974.] (Scholar)
• Pasquale, Gianluigi, 2005. Aristotle and the Principle of Non-Contradiction, Sankt Augustin: Academica Verlag. (Scholar)
• Peña, Lorenzo, 1999. “The Coexistence of Contradictory Properties in the Same Subject According to Aristotle,” in Shiner 1999. (Scholar)
• Politis, V., 2004. Aristotle and the Metaphysics, London: Routledge. (Scholar)
• Priest, Graham, 1998. “To be and not to be—that is the answer. On Aristotle on the Law of Non-Contradiction,” Philosophiegeschichte und Logische Analyse, 1: 91–130. [A dialetheist critique.] (Scholar)
• –––, 2005. Doubt Truth to be a Liar, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Priest, Graham, Beall, J. C. and Bradley Armour-Garb (eds.), 2004. The Law of Non-Contradiction: New Philosophical Essays, New York: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Ross, W.D., 1923. Aristotle, London: Methuen and Co. (Scholar)
• –––, 1949. Aristotle’s Prior and Posterior Analytics (a revised text with introduction and commentary), Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
• Scholar, M.C., 1971. “Aristotle Metaphysics IV 1010b1–3,” Mind, 80: 266–8. [A reply to Kenny 1967.] (Scholar)
• Selby-Bigge, L.A. and Nidditch, P.H. (eds.), 1978. Hume’s Enquiries concerning Human Understanding and concerning the Principles of Morals (1777). Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
• Shields, Christopher, 2013, Aristotle (The Routledge Philosophers), London and New York: Routledge, second edition, especially ch. 6, section 6.5. (Scholar)
• Shiner, R. (ed.), 1999. Apeiron: A Journal for Ancient Philosophy and Science, 22(3) (volume devoted to the Law of Non-Contradiction). (Scholar)
• Siegel, Harvey, 1986. “Relativism, Truth and Incoherence,” Synthése, 68: 225–259. (Scholar)
• Smith, Robin, 1982. “The Syllogism in Posterior Analytics I,” Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, 64: 113–35. (Scholar)
• Stern, Robert (ed.), 2003. Transcendental Arguments and Prospects, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Taylor. C. C. W., 1999. The Atomists: Leucippus and Democritus: Fragments: a text and translation with a commentary, Toronto; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press. (Scholar)
• Thom, Paul, 1999. “The Principle of Non-Contradiction in Early Greek Philosophy,” in Shiner 1999. (Scholar)
• Wedin, Michael V., 1999. “The Scope of Non-Contradiction: A Note on Aristotle’s ‘Elenctic’ Proof in Metaphysics Gamma 4,” In Shiner 1999. (Scholar)
• –––, 2003. “A Curious Turn in Metaphysics Gamma: Protagoras and Strong Denial of the Principle of Non-Contradiction,” Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, 85(2): 107–130. (Scholar)
• –––, 2004. “Aristotle on the Firmness of the Principle of Non-Contradiction,” Phronesis, 49 (3): 225–265. (Scholar)
• –––, 2004. “On the Use and Abuse of Non-Contradiction: Aristotle’s Critique of Protagoras and Heraclitus in Metaphysics Gamma 5,” Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, 26: 213–239. (Scholar)
• –––, 2005. “Animadversions on Burnyeat’s Theaetetus: On the Logic of the Exquisite Argument,” Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, 29: 171–91. (Scholar)
• Wians, William, 2006. “The Philosopher’s Knowledge of Non-Contradiction,” Ancient Philosophy, 26: 383–353. (Scholar)
• Whitaker, C. W. A., 1996. Aristotle’s De Interpretatione: Contradiction and Dialectic, New York: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Ziglioli, Ugo, 2007. Protagoras and the Challenge of Relativism, Aldershot: Ashgate. (Scholar)

See also the bibliographies of the related entries on Aristotle’s Metaphysics Logic, and Plato on Knowledge in the Theaetetus.