Plato 1 Metaphysics and Epistemology

by Fine, Gail

• ISBN13: 9780198752066
• ISBN10: 0198752067
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-06
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This series aims to bring together important recent writing in major areas of philosophical inquiry, selected from a variety of sources. The editor of each volume contributes an introductory essay on the items chosen and on the questions with which they deal. A selective bibliography is appended as a guide to further reading.

Author Biography

Gail Fine is Professor of Philosophy at Cornell University. She is author of On Ideas: Aristotle's Criticism of Plato's Theory of Forms (1993), and co-editor of Aristotle: Selections (1995) and Aristotle: Introductory Readings (1996).

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(36)
Gail Fine
The Socratic Elenchus	36	(28)
Gregory Vlastos
Socrates Disavowal of Knowledge	64	(29)
Gregory Vlastos
Platonic Recollection	93	(32)
Dominic Scott
Language and Reality in Plato's Cratylus	125	(18)
J. L. Ackrill
The Theory of Forms	143	(28)
T. H. Irwin
Plato on the Imperfection of the Sensible World	171	(21)
Alexander Nehamas
Separation and Immanence in Plato's Theory of Forms	192	(23)
Daniel T. Devereux
Knowledge and Belief in Republic 5--7	215	(32)
Gail Fine
The Form of the Good in Plato's Republic	247	(28)
Gerasimos Santas
The Logic of the Third Man	275	(23)
S. Marc Cohen
Notes on Ryle's Plato	298	(22)
G. E. L. Owen
Knowledge is Perception: Theaetetus 151D--184A	320	(35)
M. F. Burnyeat
Plato on Sense-Perception and Knowledge (Theaetetus 184--186)	355	(22)
John M. Cooper
Observations on Perception in Plato's Later Dialogues	377	(7)
Michael Frede
Identity Mistakes: Plato and the Logical Atomists	384	(13)
John McDowell
The Double Explanation in the Timaeus	397	(19)
Steven K. Strange
Plato on Not-Being	416	(39)
G. E. L. Owen
Being in the Sophist: A Syntactical Enquiry	455	(24)
Lesley Brown
Notes on the Contributors	479	(2)
Selected Bibliography	481	(14)
Index of Names	495