Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Dialectic And Aristotle's Topics 11
6. 2. Dialectic And Boethius's De Topicis Differentiis 31
7. 3. Between Aristotle And Boethius 57
8. 4. Topics And Hypothetical Syllogisms In Garlandus Compotista 67
9. 5. Abelard On The Topics 89
10. 6. Logic In The Early Twelfth Century 111
11. 7. Terminist Logicians On The Topics 135
12. 8. Consequences And The Decline Of Aristotelianism In Formal Logic 157
13. 9. William Of Sherwood's Treatise On Obligations 177
14. 10. Walter Burley On Obligations 195
15. 11. Roger Swyneshed's Theory Of Obligations 215
16. 12. Topics, Consequences, And Obligations In Ockham's Summa Logicae 251
17. Index 271