Plato on Knowledge and Forms: Selected Essays

by Gail Fine

Overview

Plato on Knowledge and Forms brings together a set of connected essays by Gail Fine, in her main area of research since the late 1970s: Plato's metaphysics and epistemology. She discusses central issues in Plato's metaphysics and epistemology, issues concerning the nature and extent of knowledge, and its relation to perception, sensibles, and forms; and issues concerning the nature of forms, such as whether they are universals or particulars, separate or immanent, and whether they are causes. A specially written introduction draws together the themes of the volume, which will reward the attention of anyone interested in Plato or in ancient metaphysics and epistemology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199245581
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	12/11/2003
Pages:	460
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 6.30(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Sage School of Philosophy, Cornell University

Table of Contents

Preface1. Introduction2. Inquiry in the Meno3. Knowledge and Belief in Republic V4. Knowledge and Belief in Republic V-VII5. Plato on Naming6. Protagoran Relativisms7. Conflicting Appearances8. Plato's Refutation of Protagoras in the Theaetetus9. False Beliefs in the Theaetetus10. Knowledge and Logos in the Theaetetus11. Separation12. Immanence13. Relational Entities14. Forms as Causes: Plato and Aristotle15. Plato and Aristotle on Form and SubstanceBiblographyIndex Locorum

Editorial Reviews

"Professor Gail Fine has investigated these yoked epistemological and metaphysical dimensions of Forms with care, insight, and tenacity for over a quarter century...This welcome anthology collects together fifteen of her published papers [plus] a full, clear, and mildly polemical Introduction. Fine offers her texts, her critics, and her readers alike the courtesty of a welcome and uncommon intellectual candor." —Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

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