Plato 1

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).

The articles are all reader-friendly, following the editors aim of an open and discussion-orientated style...The writers assume an interest in their readers and, without patronising, they generally engage it. Thus, the difficult becomes not a barrier but a challenge. The collection, through its scope and quality, will be a standard for some time to come.

• 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