Plato 1 Metaphysics and Epistemology

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.

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.

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

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).