Publications of Bodnár, I.
Pythagoras, the philosopher and grammar teacher (Br. Lib. Add. MS 37516 recto). In: Hochschild JP, Nevitt TC, Wood A, Borbély G, editors. Metaphysics Through Semantics: The Philosophical Recovery of the Medieval Mind : Essays in Honor of Gyula Klima. Springer Science; 2023. (International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées).
Pythagoras, the philosopher and grammar teacher (Br. Lib. Add. MS 37516 recto)
The paper is about a chreia—a one-liner used as a grammatical exercise sentence—that presents Pythagoras as proscribing an expression from admissible linguistic usage. This injunction is funny, because it can be construed as Pythagoras railing against the use of a particular variant form of an adjective—and also as against the use of items denoted by that adjective. In the paper I add to this line of interpretation the further point that the chreia also claims that in this latter construal the injunction was Pythagoras’s signature insight, making him the philosopher that he was
Hipparchus on the ratio of longest day to shortest night in Eudoxus, Aratus and Attalus: Part II: The error. Polanyiana. 2021;30(1):6-19.
Hipparchus on the ratio of longest day to shortest night in Eudoxus, Aratus and Attalus: Part II: The error
As the title indicates, this is a sequel, or indeed, a correction to a paper, "Hipparchus on the ratio of longest day to shortest night in Eudoxus, Aratus and Attalus (In Arati et Eudoxi Phaenomena I.3.10)", which appeared as a contribution to the Festschrift to Professor László Török. That paper argued for a conjecture of Otto Neugebauer, who suggested that in Hipparchus‘ report about the two different values for the ratio of longest day to shortest night in two different works of Eudoxus – 5 : 3 in the Mirror (Enoptron) and 12 : 7 in the Phaenomena – the latter value should be emended to 11 : 7. In this I argued against Alan Bowen and Bernard Goldstein, who defended the transmitted value. In this Part II I recapitulate the argumentation of that paper, and then set out the reading of the passage proposed by Alexander Jones, and then reassess the import of this passage about the ratio of longest day to shortest night.
The Day, the Month, and the Year: What Plato Expects from Astronomy. In: Špinka Štěpán, Karfík F, Jorgenson C, editors. Plato’s Timaeus : Proceedings of the tenth Symposium Platonicum Pragense. Leiden: Brill; 2020. p. 112-30.
The Day, the Month, and the Year: What Plato Expects from Astronomy
The Timaeus apparently assigns a different task to astronomy than that in the educational programme set out in the Republic. There is no word about the reorientation required in the Republic that astronomers should ascend to a post-observational study of “the real decorations [of the heavens]—the real movements that these move by true quickness and true slowness in true number and in all true figures in relation to each other, carrying along the things contained in them, which can be grasped by reason and thought, and not by sight.” (Republic 529d) Nevertheless, I argue that—albeit with vastly different theoretical presuppositions about perceptible entities—the Timaeus takes into consideration some of the strictures of the Republic. Similar to the way the reform of astronomy required in the Republic, only such observational astronomy can pass muster in the Timaeus whose major aim is to reduce the regularities of the motions of the different celestial objects to components that are connected to the fundamental motions of the World Soul. This enterprise can be claimed—within the confines of this likely story—to integrate in its fully developed form every important intellectual pursuit there is.
The Study of Natural Kinds in the Early Academy. In: Kalligas P, Balla C, Baziotopoulou-Valavani E, Karasmanis V, editors. Plato's Academy : Its Workings and Its History. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press; 2020. p. 153-66.
Hipparchus on the Ratio of Longest Day to Shortest Night in Eudoxus, Aratus and Attalus (In Arati et Eudoxi Phaenomena I.3.10). In: Bács T, Bollók Ádám, Vida T, editors. Across the Mediterranean – Along the Nile : Studies in Egyptology, Nubiology and Late Antiquity Dedicated to László Török on the Occasion of His 75th Birthday. Vol Volume 1. Budapest: Institute of Archaeology, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Museum of Fine Arts; 2018. p. 123-36.
Physics I.8. In: Quarantotto D, editor. Aristotle's Physics Book I : A Systematic Exploration. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press; 2018. p. 206-25.
Cases of Celestial Teleology in Metaphysics [LAMBDA]. In: Horn C, editor. Aristotle's Metaphysics Lambda - New Essays. New York - Berlin: De Gruyter; 2016. p. 247-67.
Alexander's unmoved mover. In: Cerami C, editor. Nature et Sagesse. Leuven: Peeters Publishers; 2015. p. 387-416.
The Problemata physica: An Introduction. In: Mayhew R, editor. The Aristotelian Problemata Physica : Philosophical and Scientific Investigations. Leiden: Brill; 2015. p. 1-9.
Hazug-korrrespondencia mondatok egy buridáni rendszerben. ÁLTALÁNOS NYELVÉSZETI TANULMÁNYOK. 2014;26:93-9.
A Testimony of Oenopides in Pliny. Hyperboreus. 2014;20:126-36.
Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 8.1-5. Bristol: Bristol Classical Press - Cornell University Press; 2012.
Problemata, Mechanika. In: Rapp C, Corcilius K, editors. Aristoteles Handbuch. Stuttgart: Metzler; 2012. p. 115-23.
[Commentary on Section] 246b20-246b3 [of Physics VII.3]. In: Maso S, Natali C, Seel G, editors. Reading Aristotle Physics VII.3. Las Vegas: Parmenides Publishing; 2012. p. 73-84.
Sôzein ta phainomena: Some semantic considerations. CROATIAN JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY. 2012;12(35):269-81.
Sôzein ta phainomena: Some semantic considerations
Saving the appearances (sôzein ta phainomena) often features as a programmatic description of the aim and objective of ancient astronomical theory. The paper, after an expository section, discusses some earlier proposals for what such a programme presupposes. After this, through a survey of the usage in Plato and Aristotle of some key terms-among them the verb sôzein-describing the relationship of an account to what it is an account of, submits that the phrase in this semantic framework could express the crucial property of an account that it is faithful to the phenomena, and it does not overrule or discard them.
The pseudo-Aristotelian Mechanics. In: Desclos M-L, Fortenbaugh WW, editors. Strato of Lampsacus. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers; 2011. p. 443-55.
Az égbolt ábrái. In: Az égbolt / Arisztotelész. A világrend / Pszeudo-Arisztotelész. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó; 2009. p. 172-3.
Oenopides of Chius: A survey of the modern literature with a collection of the ancient testimonia. Berlin: Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte; 2008.
Aristotle’s planetary observations. In: Føllesdal D, Woods J, editors. Logos and language. London: College Publications; 2008. p. 243-50.
Adrastos of Aphrodisias. In: Keyser PT, Irby-Massie GL, editors. Encyclopedia of Ancient Natural Scientists. London: Routledge; 2008. p. 31-2.
Aristotelian Corpus Mēkhanika. In: Keyser PT, Irby-Massie GL, editors. Encyclopedia of Ancient Natural Scientists. London: Routledge; 2008. p. 148-9.
Eudēmos of Rhodes. In: Keyser PT, Irby-Massie GL, editors. Encyclopedia of Ancient Natural Scientists. London: Routledge; 2008. 309.
Kritolaus of Phaselis. In: Keyser PT, Irby-Massie GL, editors. Encyclopedia of Ancient Natural Scientists. London: Routledge; 2008. p. 493-4.
Matters of size, texture, and resilience. RHIZAI - A JOURNAL FOR ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENCE. 2008;5(1):9-34.
Töredékes hagyomány. Steiger Kornélnak. Betegh G, Bodnár I, Lautner P, Geréby G, editors. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó; 2007.
Parmenidész töredékei. In: Betegh G, Bodnár I, Lautner P, György G, editors. Töredékes hagyomány. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó; 2007. p. 360-8.
Aristotle’s Physics and Cosmology. In: Gill ML, Pellegrin P, editors. A Companion to Ancient Philosophy. Malden: Blackwell Publishing; 2006. p. 270-91.
Aristotle's Natural Philosophy. In: Zalta EN, editor. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford (California): CSLI; 2006. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-natphil/.
Egy ál-Cato a Dunáról [A pseudo-Cato on the Danube]. BUKSZ- BUDAPESTI KÖNYVSZEMLE. 2006;18:389.
Oinopidès de Chios. In: Goulet R, editor. Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques. Paris: CNRS Editions; 2005. p. 761-7.
Metafizika. In: Bugár IM, editor. Kozmikus teológia. Budapest: Kairosz Kiadó; 2005. p. 226-53.
Aristotle’s rewinding spheres. APEIRON. 2005;38(4):257-75.
Teleology across natures. RHIZAI - A JOURNAL FOR ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENCE. 2005;2:9-29.
The mechanical principles of animal motion. In: Laks A, Rashed M, editors. Aristote et le mouvement des animaux. Lille: Septentrion; 2004. p. 137-47.
Szuperveniens dualizmus. In: Farkas K, Orthmayr I, editors. Bölcselet és analízis. Budapest: ELTE Eötvös Kiadó; 2003. p. 83-92.
Xeniades. In: Cancik H, Schneider H, editors. Der Neue Pauly. Vol 12/2: Ven–Z. Stuttgart; Weimar: Metzler; 2003. 612.
Zenon [1, von Elea]. In: Cancik H, Schneider H, editors. Der Neue Pauly. Vol 12/2: Ven–Z. Stuttgart; Weimar: Metzler; 2003. p. 742-4.
Eudemus of Rhodes. Bodnár I, Fortenbaugh WW, editors. New Brunswick; London: Transaction Publishers; 2002.
On Eudemus Fr. 150 (Wehrli). In: Bodnár I, Fortenbaugh WW, editors. Eudemus of Rhodes. Vol 11. New Brunswick; London: Transaction Publishers; 2002. p. 337-57. (Rutgers University Studies in Classical Humanities; vol 11).
On Eudemus Fr. 150 (Wehrli)
Fr. 150 of Eudemus Rhodes, preserved in the De principiis of the 6th c. Neoplatonist philosopher Damascius, is our main source on early theogonical narratives. The analysis of Damascius's method shows that Eudemus' work contained probably more theogonies and certainly more generations from the individual theogonies than what we have in the fragment. A survey of the Aristotelian references to the 'theologians' proves that, pace Wehrli, Eudemus's text was not a digression in a systematic work intended to review endoxa on a particular theoretical question: it was more probably a synoptical collection of the genealogical narratives of the 'theologians.'
Eudemus’ unmoved movers: Fragments 121-123b Wehrli. In: Bodnár I, Fortenbaugh WW, editors. Eudemus of Rhodes. Vol 11. New Brunswick; London: Transaction Publishers; 2002. p. 171-89. (Rutgers University Studies in Classical Humanities; vol 11).
Theophrastus’ De igne. In: Fortenbaugh WW, Wöhrle G, editors. The Opuscula of Theophrastus. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag; 2002. p. 75-90.
Science and philosophy in the Academy. ACTA ANTIQUA ACADEMIAE SCIENTIARUM HUNGARICAE. 2002;42:67-76.
Recenzió [Review of] (Kertész András, Nyelvészet és tudományelmélet Budapest: Akadémiai, 2001). BUKSZ- BUDAPESTI KÖNYVSZEMLE. 2002;14:397-9.
Review of Helen S. Lang, The Order of Nature in Aristotle’s Physics: Place and the Elements. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998). JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY. 2001;39:139-41.
Metrodoros [4, von Chios]. In: Cancik H, Schneider H, editors. Der Neue Pauly. Vol 8: Mer–Op. Stuttgart; Weimar: Metzler; 2000. 133.
Milesische Schule. In: Cancik H, Schneider H, editors. Der Neue Pauly. Vol 8: Mer–Op. Stuttgart; Weimar: Metzler; 2000. p. 169-70.
Nausiphanes von Teos. In: Cancik H, Schneider H, editors. Der Neue Pauly. Vol 8: Mer–Op. Stuttgart; Weimar: Metzler; 2000. p. 757-8.
Parmenides. In: Cancik H, Schneider H, editors. Der Neue Pauly. Vol 9: Or–Poi. Stuttgart; Weimar: Metzler; 2000. p. 337-41.
Leukippos. In: Cancik H, Schneider H, editors. Der Neue Pauly. Vol 7: Lef–Men. Stuttgart; Weimar: Metzler; 1999. 106.
Melissos [2]. In: Cancik H, Schneider H, editors. Der Neue Pauly. Vol 7: Lef–Men. Stuttgart; Weimar: Metzler; 1999. p. 1188-9.
Review of Thomas Buchheim: Die Vorsokratiker: Ein philosophisches Porträt. (München: C.H. Beck 1994. JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY. 1999;37:517-9.
Facinus de Ast, Opera philosophica II: Questiones super libros Physicorum. ARCHIVES D'HISTOIRE DOCTRINALE ET LITTERAIRE DU MOYEN AGE. 1998;65:331-414.
Atomic independence and indivisibility. OXFORD STUDIES IN ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY. 1998;16:35-61.
Anaximander. In: Zeyl DJ, editor. Encyclopedia of Classical Philosophy. Westport, Connecticut; London: Greenwood Press London; 1997. p. 31-3.
Anaximenes. In: Zeyl DJ, editor. Encyclopedia of Classical Philosophy. Westport, Connecticut; London: Greenwood Press London; 1997. p. 33-4.
Atomismus. In: Cancik H, Schneider H, editors. Der Neue Pauly. Stuttgart; Weimar: Metzler; 1997. p. 218-9.
Demokriteer. In: Cancik H, Schneider H, editors. Der Neue Pauly. Stuttgart; Weimar: Metzler; 1997. 455.
Diogenes [12, von Apollonia]. In: Cancik H, Schneider H, editors. Der Neue Pauly. Stuttgart; Weimar: Metzler; 1997. p. 596-8.
Diogenes [13, von Smyrna]. In: Cancik H, Schneider H, editors. Der Neue Pauly. Stuttgart; Weimar: Metzler; 1997. 598.
Eleatische Schule. In: Cancik H, Schneider H, editors. Der Neue Pauly. Stuttgart; Weimar: Metzler; 1997. p. 963-5.
Facinus de Ast, Opera philosophica I: Tractatus de maximo et minimo. ARCHIVES D'HISTOIRE DOCTRINALE ET LITTERAIRE DU MOYEN AGE. 1997;64:405-37.
Movers and elemental motions in Aristotle. OXFORD STUDIES IN ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY. 1997;15:81-117.
Alexander of Aphrodisias on celestial motions. PHRONESIS: A JOURNAL FOR ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY. 1997;42(2):190-205.
Alkmaion [4]. In: Cancik H, Schneider H, editors. Der Neue Pauly. Stuttgart; Weimar: Metzler; 1996. p. 508-9.
Anaximandros. In: Cancik H, Schneider H, editors. Der Neue Pauly. Stuttgart; Weimar: Metzler; 1996. p. 672-3.
Anaximenes [1]. In: Cancik H, Schneider H, editors. Der Neue Pauly. Stuttgart; Weimar: Metzler; 1996. 673.
Szemlecikk: Görög gondolkodók 1. Thalésztól Anaxagoraszig; Görög gondolkodók 2. Empedoklésztől Démokritoszig (Kossuth Könyvkiadó, Budapest 1993, 2. kiadás: 1996). BUKSZ- BUDAPESTI KÖNYVSZEMLE. 1996;8:96-8.
Bizonytalan bizonyítások. BUKSZ- BUDAPESTI KÖNYVSZEMLE. 1995;7:408-15.
Két ál-Dörömbözi. BUKSZ- BUDAPESTI KÖNYVSZEMLE. 1994;6:293-4.
Navigare necesse est. MFT KÜLÖNKIADVÁNY. 1994;1994(1):23-30.
Anaximander on the Stability of the Earth. PHRONESIS: A JOURNAL FOR ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY. 1992;37(3):336-42.
Mündlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit im archaischen Griechenland. In: Mersch D, Nyiri JC, editors. Computer, Kultur, Geschichte - Beiträge zur Philosophie des Informationszeitalters. Wiebelsheim: Passagen Verlag; 1991. p. 79-85.
Sztasziótész, -ú, ho. BUKSZ- BUDAPESTI KÖNYVSZEMLE. 1991;3:218.
Szóbeliség és írásbeliség az archaikus Görögországban. In: Nyíri JC, editor. Műveltség és kultúra a számítógépkorszakban: Informatika történetfilozófiai szempontból. Budapest: Magyar Filozófiai Társaság; 1990. p. 104-10.
A deduktív elméletek kifejezési eszközeinek korlátai. In: Imre R, editor. Bizonyítás és igazság. Budapest: Gondolat Kiadó; 1990. p. 264-76.
A tudományos szemantika megalapozása. In: Imre R, editor. Bizonyítás és igazság. Budapest: Gondolat Kiadó; 1990. p. 277-86.
A logikai következmény fogalmáról. In: Imre R, editor. Bizonyítás és igazság. Budapest: Gondolat Kiadó; 1990. p. 287-306.
Review of Coxon, A. H. The Fragments of Parmenides: A critical text with introduction, translation, the ancient testimonia and a commentary. ANNALES UNIVERSITATIS SCIENTIARUM BUDAPESTINENSIS DE ROLANDO EÖTVÖS NOMINATAE - SECTIO PHILOSOPHICA ET SOCIOLOGICA. 1990;22-23:231-4.
Képek értelme. ANTIK TANULMÁNYOK - STUDIA ANTIQUA. 1990;34:18-24.
Reason and Revelation in Parmenides. DOXA-BUDAPEST. 1989;17:61-7.
Intensional Logic, History of Philosophy, and Methodology. Bodnár I, András Máté, László P, editors. Budapest: ELTE BTK Filozófiaoktatók Továbbképző és Információs Központja; 1988.
Lélekfilozófiai írások. Bodnár I, editor. Budapest: Európa; 1988.
Parmenides B2.3 and 5. In: Bodnár I, András Máté, László P, editors. Intensional Logic, History of Philosophy, and Methodology. Budapest: ELTE BTK Filozófiaoktatók Továbbképző és Információs Központja; 1988. p. 121-5.
Anaximander's Rings. CLASSICAL QUARTERLY. 1988;38(1):49-51.
Pürrhónizmus – logika – episztemológia – epikúreus indukciók. FILOZÓFIAI FIGYELŐ. 1987;9(2):76-81.
Atomic Shapes and Elementary Triangles in Plato’s Timaeus. DOXA-BUDAPEST. 1986;6:47-57.
Bolzano és a kijelentések egzisztenciális súlya. TERTIUM NON DATUR: LOGIKAI-METODOLÓGIAI TANULMÁNYOK. 1986;3:199-216.
Parmenidész igazolása. MAGYAR FILOZÓFIAI SZEMLE. 1986;30:285-98.
‘Négy paradoxon egy csapásra’. MAGYAR FILOZÓFIAI SZEMLE. 1986;30:613-7.
Epistola 48a. MAGYAR FILOZÓFIAI SZEMLE. 1986;30:436-7.
Contrasting Images. APEIRON. 1985;19(1):57-63.
Parmenídész formalizálása. TERTIUM NON DATUR: LOGIKAI-METODOLÓGIAI TANULMÁNYOK. 1985;2:121-7.
Parmenídész tagadó mondatai. DOXA-BUDAPEST. 1985;6:41-53.