Essays on Plato’s Epistemology

An Innovating approach to Plato’s philosophy.

Through a careful survey of several significant Platonic texts, mainly focussing on the nature of knowledge, Essays on Plato’s Epistemology offers the reader a fresh and promising approach to Plato’s philosophy as a whole. From the very earliest reception of Plato’s philosophy, there has been a conflict between a dogmatic and a sceptical interpretation of his work and thought. Moreover, the two sides are often associated, respectively, with a metaphysical and an anti-metaphysical approach. This book, continuing a line of thought that is nowadays strongly present in the secondary literature – and also followed by the author in over thirty years of research –, maintains that a third way of thinking is required. Against the widespread view that an anti-dogmatic philosophy must go together with an anti-metaphysical stance, Trabattoni shows that for Plato, on the contrary, a sober and reasonable assessment of both the powers and limits of human reason relies on a proper metaphysical outlook.

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"Essays on Plato’s Epistemology" was written by Franco Trabattoni.

Franco Trabattoni is Full Professor of the History of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Milan. He is editor of Méthexis, International Journal for Ancient Philosophy.

Yes, "Essays on Plato’s Epistemology" is part of the "Ancient and Medieval Philosophy - Series 1" series. It's book 53 in the series.

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The series' focus lies primarily on the continuity and thematic transitions between ancient, medieval and renaissance thought, but also includes volumes on specific topics related to any of those periods. ‘Philosophy' is understood broadly to include metaphysics, ethics, natural philosophy, epistemology and philosophy of mind, and philosophical theology. Since the series is particularly devoted to making available Latin and Greek source texts, we welcome critical text editions as well as contributions that are based on philological scrutiny of those texts, without losing sight of their philosophical importance.

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Researchers and graduate students in ancient, medieval and renaissance philosophy, in classics and in history.

Editorial Coordinator

Russell Friedman, KU Leuven, Belgium

Editorial Board

Pieter Beullens, KU Leuven, Belgium
Lisa Devriese, KU Leuven, Belgium
Pieter d'Hoine, KU Leuven, Belgium
Jan Opsomer, KU Leuven, Belgium
Jenny Pelletier, KU Leuven, Belgium
Andrea Robiglio, KU Leuven, Belgium
Carlos Steel, KU Leuven, Belgium
Gerd Van Riel, KU Leuven, Belgium

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Brad Inwood, Yale Universityo, USA
Jill Kraye, The Warburg Institute, London, United Kingdom
John Marenbon, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Lodi Nauta, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Timothy Noone (†) , The Catholic University of America, USA
Robert Pasnau, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
Martin Pickavé, University of Toronto, Canada,
Pasquale Porro, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Geert Roskam, KU Leuven, Belgium

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Introduction

Chapter 1. Thought as Inner Dialogue (Theaet. 189e4-190a6)

Chapter 2. Logos and doxa: The Meaning of the Refutation of the Third Definition of Epistêmê in the Theaetetus

Chapter 3. Theaetetus 200d-201c: Truth without Certainty

Chapter 4. Foundationalism or Coherentism? On the Third Definition of Epistêmê in the Theaetetus

Chapter 5. What is the Meaning of Plato's Theaetetus? Sοme Remarks on a New Annotated Translation of the Dialogue

Chapter 6. David Sedley's Theaetetus

Chapter 7. The “Virtuous Circle” of Language. On the meaning of Plato's Cratylus

Chapter 8. The Knowledge of the Philosopher

Chapter 9. What Role do the Mathematical Sciences Play in the Metaphor of the Line?

Chapter 10. Socrates' error in the Parmenides

Chapter 11. On the Distinguishing Features of Plato's “Metaphysics” (Starting from the Parmenides)

Chapter 12. Is There Such a Thing as a “Platonic theory of the Ideas” According to Aristotle?

Chapter 13. The Unity of Virtue, Self-Predication and the “Third Man” in Protagoras 329e-332a

Chapter 14. Plato: Philosophy, Politics and Knowledge. An Overview

Bibliography

The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) for "Essays on Plato’s Epistemology" is 10.11116/EPE_AMP.