Dr Laura M Castelli

Books

• Alexander of Aphrodisias On Aristotle: Topics, Book 3. Introduction, translation and notes. Ancient Commentators on Aristotle, Bloomsbury: London/NY/Oxford/New Delhi/Sydney 2021. (link)
• Alexander of Aphrodisias On Aristotle: Topics, Book 2. Introduction, translation and notes, Ancient Commentators on Aristotle, Bloomsbury: London/NY/Oxford/New Delhi/Sydney 2020. (link)
• Aristotle, Metaphysics Book Iota. Introduction, translation and commentary, Clarendon Press: Oxford 2018. (link)
• Aristotele, Fisica IV. Introduzione, traduzione e commento, Carocci: Roma 2012. (link)
• Problems and Paradigms of Unity. Aristotle’s Accounts of the One, International Aristotle Studies 6, Academia Verlag: Sankt Augustin 2010. (link)

In progress:

• Training the Mind for Truth: Philosophy of Logic in Antiquity and Late Antiquity
• Alexander of Aphrodisias On Aristotl : Topics, Book 4, in preparation for Ancient Commentators on Aristotle, Bloomsbury,

Articles

• Aristotle on ‘The Other Principle’, the Opposites, and Plato’s Sophist, forthcoming in R. Granieri and F. Fronterotta (eds.), Plato’s Sophist in Antiquity, CUP
• Alexander of Aphrodisias and Aristotle’s Topics. A Handbook for the gumnasia of the rational sou, A.M. Mora Marquez and G.Fernandez Walker (eds.), Revisiting Medieval Dialectic, Springer. 2025
• Alexander and Adverbs, «Philosophie Antique» 2023 (Special Issue) , pp. 7-25
• Ideas destroy the Platonists’ Principles: de ideis 87.1-88.2 et 97.27-98.24 (forthcoming in M. Crubellier - L. Gazziero (éd.), Le Peri ideôn d’Aristote, Louvain-la-neuve, Peeters), 2025, pp. 151-179
• Introduction. Glimpses of the Reception of Aristotle’s Topics in the Arabic, Byzantine, Hebrew and Latin Tradition Between the XII and the XV Century , <<Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale>> XXXV (2024), pp. 1-6.
• Pyrrhonism, Rationality, and Sophisms, forthcoming in <<History of Philosophy and Logical Analysis>> 2024
• Aristotle’s Categories. Oxford Bibliographies Online. (last modification Feb. 2020) (link)
• Alexander of Aphrodisias and Musical Models for Ontological Enquiries, in F. Pelosi and F. Petrucci (eds.), Music and Philosophy in the Roman Empire, Cambridge University Press 2020, pp. 85-107.
• Metaph. Iota 2: Between Aristotle and the Pythagoreans on Measurement and Ontological Analsis, in G. Giardina (ed.), To Metron. Sur la notion de mesure dans la philosophie d’Aristote, Vrin 2020, pp. 171-182.
• Disentangling Defining and Demonstrating: Notes on An. Post. II 3-7, in L. Angioni and B. Zuppolini (eds.), Aristotle’s Theory of Demonstration and its Logical and Metaphysical Entanglements, Manuscrito 42.4 (special issue) 2019, pp. 243-281.
• Aristotle, Phys. I 3, in D. Quarantotto (ed.), Aristotle, Physics I, Cambridge University Press 2018, pp. 82-105.
• Alexander on Aristotle, APr I 31, Division and Syllogistic, «Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale» XXVI, 2015, pp. 33-54.
• Phthonos: pathos, ēthos, Perception of Desert and the Place of Envy in Rhet. II, in B. Centrone (ed.), La Retorica di Aristotele e la dottrina delle passioni, Pisa University Press 2015, pp. 221-248.
• Alexander of Aphrodisias: Methodological Issues and Argumentative Strategies between Ethical Problems and Commentary on the Topics, in M. Bonelli (ed.), Le questioni etiche di Alessandro d’Afrodisia, Bibliopolis 2014, pp. 19-42.
• Collections of Topoi and the Structure of Aristotle’s Τopics. Notes on an Ancient Debate (Aristotle, Theophrastus, Alexander and Themistius), «Antiquorum Philosophia» VII,  2013, pp. 65-91.
• Universals, Particulars and Aristotle’s Criticism of Plato’s Forms, in R.Chiaradonna-G.Galluzzo (eds.), Universals in Ancient Philosophy, Edizioni della Scuola Normale 2013, pp. 139-184.
• Manifestazioni somatiche e fisiologia delle ‘affezioni dell’anima’ in ps. Arist., Problemata, in B. Centrone (ed.), Studi sui Problemata Physica aristotelici, «Elenchos» LVIII, 2011, pp. 239-274.
• Greek, Arab and Latin Commentators on per se accidents of being qua being and the place of Aristotle, Met. Iota., «Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale» XXII, 2011, pp. 153-208.
• Met. XII 7, 1072a27-b1: An Argument of Identity, «The British Journal for the History of Philosophy» XIX (5), 2011, pp. 837-848.
• Matter, Necessity and the Middle Term in An.Post. B11, «Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale» XX, 2009, pp. 1-21.
• Τὸ ἓν λέγεται πολλαχῶς. Questioni aristoteliche sui significati dell’uno, «Antiquorum Philosophia» II, 2008, pp. 189-215.
• Plato and Aristotle on Universals and Definition by Division, «Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale», XVIII, 2007, pp. 21-35.
• Note sulla nozione di δύναμις τοῦ ποεῖν καὶ τοῦ πάσχειν in Soph. 247d-e: alcuni spunti aristotelici «Elenchos» XXVII, 2007 fasc. ii, pp. 415-434.
• Metaphysica Iota 6: alcuni aspetti dell’opposizione uno/molti, in B. Centrone (Ed.), Il Libro Iota (X) della Metafisica di Aristotele, International Aristotle Studies 4, Academia Verlag, Sankt Augustin 2005, pp. 139-156.
• Individuation and Metaphysics Z 15, «Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale» XIV, 2003, pp. 1-26.

​​​​​​​In progress:

• ‘Aristotle, Cat. 10-11’ (invited paper for the Symposium Aristotelicum on the Categories, Oslo 2022)
• ‘Aristotle, Met. IV 2’ (invited paper for the Symposium Aristotelicum on Met. IV, Geneva 2024)
• ‘Aristotle’s understanding of deduction in the Topics: sources of compulsion in Top. II-VII’
• ‘Dealing with “all sullogismoi”: traces of an early logical project in Aristotle’s Rhetoric and Topics’ (with Christof Rapp)
• ‘Rhetorical sullogismoi: Dialectic and Rhetoric on Enthymemes’ (in preparation for a volume on Aristotle’s Rhetoric, edited by L. Viidebaum and P. Destrée, CUP).
• ‘Essence, Definition, Addition, Subtraction and Sameness in Aristotle, Met. Z 4-6’