The Name of the Organon

This article discusses the question whether the use of ὄργανον as a title to designate Aristotle’s logical treatises as a unitary bibliographical entity can be traced back to the ancient commentators or emerged as late as in the Renaissance. A review of the ancient and medieval evidence locates the earliest certain traces of this use in the eleventh or twelfth century

Eleventh · Middle Ages · Natural (archaeology · Unitary state · Historical Philosophy and Science · Medieval and Classical Philosophy · Renaissance and Early Modern Studies