Plato 1 : Metaphysics and epistemology / edited by Gail Fine

By:

Fine, Gail

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Oxford readings in philosophyPublication details: New York Oxford University Press 1999ISBN:

0198752067

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DDC classification:

184 FIN

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	184 FIN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002000282757

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The aim of the series is 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.

Includes bibliographical references

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

Introduction
1 The Socratic Elenchus
2 Socrates' Disavowal of Knowledge
3 Platonic Recollection
4 Language and Reality in Plato's Cratylus
5 The Theory of Forms
6 Plato on the Imperfection of the Sensible World
7 Separation and Immanence in Plato's Theory of Forms
8 Knowledge and Belief in Republic V-VII
9 The Form of Good in Plato's Republic
10 The Logic of the Third Man
11 Notes on Ryle's Plato
12 Knowledge is Perception
13 Plato on Sense-Perception and Knowledge (Theaetetus 184-186)
14 Observations on Perception in Plato's Later Dialogues
15 Identity Mistakes: Plato and the Logical Atomists
16 The Double Explanation in the Timaeus
17 Plato on Not-Being
18 Being in the Sophist: A Syntactical Enquiry
Notes on the Contributors
Selected Bibliography
Index of Names

Author notes provided by Syndetics

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).