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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.
| ISBN | 0198752067 | | Pages | 522 | | ISBN13 | 9780198752066
(What's this?) | | Part volume | Metaphysics and Epistemology | | Publisher | Oxford University Press | | Volumes | 1 | | Imprint | Oxford University Press | | Weight (grammes) | 657 | | Format | Paperback | | Published in | Oxford | | Publication date | 14 Oct 1999 | | Series title | Oxford Readings in Philosophy | | Non-book description | 21 cm. | | Height (mm) | 203 | | Library of Congress | 99013233 | | Width (mm) | 135 | | DEWEY | 184 | | Spine width (mm) | 25 | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | Academic level | Tertiary education |
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| | | Introduction by Gail Fine | | 1 | | I | | The Socratic Elenchus by Gregory Vlastos | | 36 | | II | | Socrates' Disavowal of Knowledge by Gregory Vlastos | | 64 | | III | | Platonic Recollection by Dominic Scott | | 93 | | IV | | Language and Reality in Plato's Cratylus by J. L. Ackrill | | 125 | | V | | The Theory of Forms by T. H. Irwin | | 143 | | VI | | Plato on the Imperfection of the Sensible World by Alexander Nehamas | | 171 | | VII | | Separation and Immanence in Plato's Theory of Forms by Daniel T. Devereux | | 192 | | VIII | | Knowledge and Belief in Republic 5-7 by Gail Fine | | 215 | | IX | | The Form of the Good in Plato's Republic by Gerasimos Santas | | 247 | | X | | The Logic of the Third Man by S. Marc Cohen | | 275 | | XI | | Notes on Ryle's Plato by G. E. L. Owen | | 298 | | XII | | Knowledge is Perception: Theaetetus 151D-184A by M. F. Burnyeat | | 320 | | XIII | | Plato on Sense-Perception and Knowledge (Theaetetus 184-186) by John M. Cooper | | 355 | | XIV | | Observations on Perception in Plato's Later Dialogues by Michael Frede | | 377 | | XV | | Identity Mistakes: Plato and the Logical Atomists by John McDowell | | 384 | | XVI | | The Double Explanation in the Timaeus by Steven K. Strange | | 397 | | XVII | | Plato on Not-Being by G. E. L. Owen | | 416 | | XVIII | | Being in the Sophist: A Syntactical Enquiry by Lesley Brown | | 455 | | | | Notes on the Contributors | | 479 | | | | Selected Bibliography | | 481 | | | | Index of Names | | 495 |
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. The Times Higher Education Supplement  Be the first to write a customer review
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