FOM: FJohnson'sRequestForRecentBooksOnPost.Analyt

[Robert S Tragesser]

Hi Fred!
        Here are the "recent" books on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics.  I
found the first (Byrne) the most exciting,  thought Byrne doesn't wear the
old school tie,  as the best increasingly don't.
        Patrick H. Byrne  ANALYSIS AND SCIENCE IN ARISTOTLE     (SUNY, in
paper)
        Richard D. McKirahan,  PRINCIPLES AND PROOFS (Princeton)\
        Michael Ferejohn,  THE ORIGINS OF ARISTOTELIAN SCIENCE   Yale

Don't miss:

        Paolo Mancosu's PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS & MATHEMATICAL PRACTICE
IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY  Oxford,  and references there to literature of
Galileo and the Post.AN.

See also the Preface or Introduction to Evert Beth's Foundations of Math
(the old classic) for his chagrin at having been bogged down with Kant.

        It's worth mentioning that Deborah Modrak's  ARISTOTLE:THE POWER OF
PERCEPTION 
UChicago 1987   has a good pleasingly economical discussion of the
literature on "induction" qua dackward deduction.
                        cheers,
                                rbrt tragesser