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Inquiry, Forms, and Substances :

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Inquiry, Forms, and Substances :

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a Study in Plato's Metaphysics and Epistemology

by Thomas A. Blackson.

Dordrecht

Springer Netherlands

1995

(viii, 229 pages)

Philosophical studies series, 62.

1. Introduction --;i. Introductory remarks --;ii. Assumptions --;iii. Organization --;iv. Socrates's influence --;v. Plato's tribute to Socrates --;vi. Philosophers against lovers of spectacles --;vii. Heraclitean flux --;viii. Forms and the four kinds of stuff --;ix. Plato's place in history --;2. Plato's Tribute to Socrates --;i. Introductory remarks --;ii. Socrates's 'What is F?' question --;iii. A new method of inquiry --;iv. Against Vlastos --;v. Against Annas --;vi. The Forms exist in a third realm --;vii. Forms and Recollection --;viii. Against Penner --;3. Philosophers Against Lovers of Spectacles --;i. Introductory remarks --;ii. The Socratic challenge --;iii. An argument from knowledge --;iv. The lover of spectacles --;v. Against Owen --;vi. Against Vlastos --;vii. Against Irwin --;4. Heraclitean Flux --;i. Introductory remarks --;ii. The Aristotelian explanation --;iii. Careless assimilation --;iv. Heraclitus and Protagoras --;v. Two mistakes --;vi. Forms are not 'in' sensibles --;vii. Against traditional interpretations --;5. Forms and the Four Kinds of Stuff --;i. Introductory remarks --;ii. Eternal Forms versus transitory sensibles --;iii. Starting-points in ontology --;iv. Against Cherniss --;v. Against Cornford --;vi. Against other interpretations --;vii. Against Frede --;6. Conclusion --;i. Introductory remarks --;ii. The received wisdom --;iii. The development of Plato's thought --;iv. Aristotle on Plato --;v. Illuminating a perplexing passage --;vi. Plato's conception of reality --;Notes.

Introductory remarks 1 Plato, but not Socrates, concluded that the Forms are substances. With his defense of Socrates's method of intellectual inquiry, and the development of his Theory of Forms, Plato caused a now familiar cluster of metaphysical and epistemological issues to become central to philosophy.

Genetic epistemology.

Philosophy (General)

Philosophy, classical.

by Thomas A. Blackson.

Thomas A Blackson

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