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Plato's Account of Falsehood discusses recent secondary literature on the falsehood paradox, providing original solutions to several unsolved problems.
Author : Paolo Crivelli
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 15,75 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 0521199131
Plato's Account of Falsehood discusses recent secondary literature on the falsehood paradox, providing original solutions to several unsolved problems.
Author : Paolo Crivelli
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 19,13 MB
Release : 2004-09-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1139455664
Aristotle's theory of truth, which has been the most influential account of the concept of truth from Antiquity onwards, spans several areas of philosophy: philosophy of language, logic, ontology and epistemology. In this 2004 book, Paolo Crivelli discusses all the main aspects of Aristotle's views on truth and falsehood. He analyses in detail the main relevant passages, addresses some well-known problems of Aristotelian semantics, and assesses Aristotle's theory from the point of view of modern analytic philosophy. In the process he discusses most of the literature on Aristotle's semantic theory to have appeared in the last two centuries. His book vindicates and clarifies the often repeated claim that Aristotle's is a correspondence theory of truth. It will be of interest to a wide range of readers working in both ancient philosophy and modern philosophy of language.
Author : Christopher Gill
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 19,52 MB
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN :
These essays explore the understanding of the boundary between fact and fiction in Ancient Greece and Rome and considers how far 'lying' was distinguished from 'fiction' in different periods and genres. Early Greek poetry, Plato, and Greek and Roman historiography and novels are covered.
Author : Plato
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 37,82 MB
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1107014832
A new and lively translation of two Platonic dialogues widely read and discussed by philosophers, with introduction and notes.
Author : Robin Reames
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,57 MB
Release : 2018-07-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 022656715X
The widespread understanding of language in the West is that it represents the world. This view, however, has not always been commonplace. In fact, it is a theory of language conceived by Plato, culminating in The Sophist. In that dialogue Plato introduced the idea of statements as being either true or false, where the distinction between falsity and truth rests on a deeper discrepancy between appearance and reality, or seeming and being. Robin Reames’s Seeming & Being in Plato’s Rhetorical Theory marks a shift in Plato scholarship. Reames argues that an appropriate understanding of rhetorical theory in Plato’s dialogues illuminates how he developed the technical vocabulary needed to construct the very distinctions between seeming and being that separate true from false speech. By engaging with three key movements of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Plato scholarship—the rise and subsequent marginalization of “orality and literacy theory,” Heidegger’s controversial critique of Platonist metaphysics, and the influence of literary or dramatic readings of the dialogues—Reames demonstrates how the development of Plato’s rhetorical theory across several of his dialogues (Gorgias, Phaedrus, Protagoras, Theaetetus, Cratylus, Republic, and Sophist) has been both neglected and misunderstood.
Author : Tushar Irani
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 11,99 MB
Release : 2017-03-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1107181984
This book explores Plato's views on what an 'art of argument' should look like, investigating the relationship between psychology and rhetoric.
Author : Samuel Scolnicov
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 40,13 MB
Release : 2003-07-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0520925114
Of all Plato’s dialogues, the Parmenides is notoriously the most difficult to interpret. Scholars of all periods have disagreed about its aims and subject matter. The interpretations have ranged from reading the dialogue as an introduction to the whole of Platonic metaphysics to seeing it as a collection of sophisticated tricks, or even as an elaborate joke. This work presents an illuminating new translation of the dialogue together with an extensive introduction and running commentary, giving a unified explanation of the Parmenides and integrating it firmly within the context of Plato's metaphysics and methodology. Scolnicov shows that in the Parmenides Plato addresses the most serious challenge to his own philosophy: the monism of Parmenides and the Eleatics. In addition to providing a serious rebuttal to Parmenides, Plato here re-formulates his own theory of forms and participation, arguments that are central to the whole of Platonic thought, and provides these concepts with a rigorous logical and philosophical foundation. In Scolnicov's analysis, the Parmenides emerges as an extension of ideas from Plato's middle dialogues and as an opening to the later dialogues. Scolnicov’s analysis is crisp and lucid, offering a persuasive approach to a complicated dialogue. This translation follows the Greek closely, and the commentary affords the Greekless reader a clear understanding of how Scolnicov’s interpretation emerges from the text. This volume will provide a valuable introduction and framework for understanding a dialogue that continues to generate lively discussion today.
Author : Zina Giannopoulou
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,73 MB
Release : 2013-06-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199695296
Zina Giannopoulou offers a new reading of Theaetetus, Plato's most systematic examination of knowledge, alongside Apology, Socrates' speech in defence of his philosophical practice, and argues that the former text is a philosophical elaboration of the latter.
Author : Blake E. Hestir
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 30,23 MB
Release : 2016-04-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1107132320
Blake E. Hestir's examination of Plato's conception of truth challenges a long tradition of interpretation in ancient scholarship.
Author : Paul Stern
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,90 MB
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107407923
The Theaetetus is one of the most widely studied of any of the Platonic dialogues because its dominant theme concerns the significant philosophical question, what is knowledge? In this new interpretation of the Theaetetus, Paul Stern provides the first full-length treatment of its political character in relationship to this dominant theme. Stern argues that this approach sheds significant light on the distinctiveness of the Socratic way of life, with respect to both its initial justification and its ultimate character.