Plato on Knowledge and Forms: Selected Essays - Softcover

Fine, Gail

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199245592 ISBN 13: 9780199245598

Publisher: Clarendon Press, 2003

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Gail Fine is at Sage School of Philosophy, Cornell University.

Review:

"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

About this edition

• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0199245592
• ISBN 13: 9780199245598
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 464