Categories

References and further reading

	Aristotle (4th century) Categories, trans. and notes J. Ackrill, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979. (Discussed in §1 above.)
	Aristotle (4th century) Topics, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1958. (Discussed in §1 above.)
	da Fonseca, P. (1606) In universam dialecticam, Coimbra. (Renaissance commentary on the Organon, written by several authors of whom de Fonseca is the sole one known.)
	Frede, M. (1987) ‘The Title, Unity, and Authenticity of the Aristotelian Categories ’, in Essays in Ancient Philosophy, Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Magisterial exposition of the account relating the Categories and Topics, adopted in §1 above.)
	Graham, A.C. (1989) Disputers of the Tao, La Salle, IL: Open Court. (Appendix 2 is the source for the relativistic arguments relayed in §4.)
	Kant, I. (1781/7) Critique of Pure Reason, trans. N.K. Smith, London: Macmillan, 1929. (Discussed in §3.)
	Ryle, G. (1937–8) ‘Categories’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, reprinted in A.G.N. Flew (ed.) Logic and Language, 2nd series, Oxford: Blackwell, 1959. (Pithily brilliant classic introduction of the views outlined in §2.)
	Ryle, G. (1949) The Concept of Mind, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1978. (The most sustained and influential attempt to do philosophy by uncovering category-mistakes.)
	Reding, J.-P. (1986) ‘Greek and Chinese Categories’, Philosophy East and West 36: 349–374. (Contains a thoughtful critique of Graham’s relativism.)
	Sommers, F. (1963) ‘Types and Ontology’, Philosophical Review 72: 327–363. (One of a series of works in which Sommers attempts to formalize and improve on criteria for types put forward by Ryle and others.)