Plato''s Epistemology - Being and Seeming

Plato's Epistemology: Being and Seeming presents an original interpretation of one of the central topics in Plato's work: epistemology. Jessica Moss argues that Plato's epistemology is radically different from our own.

List of contents

• Introduction: What is Plato's Epistemology About?


• 1.: Plato's "Two Worlds" Epistemology


• 2.: Objects-Based Epistemology


• 3.: Epistêmê is of What Is


• 4.: The Basic Conception of Epistêmê at Work


• 5.: What is Epistêmê?


• 6.: Doxa is of What Seems


• 7.: The Basic Conception of Doxa at Work


• 8.: What is Doxa?


• 9.: Epistemology in the Earlier Dialogues


• 10.: Epistemology in the Theaetetus


• Conclusion: Plato's Ethical-cum-Metaphysical Epistemology

About the author

Jessica Moss is a Professor of Philosophy at NYU. She received her PhD from Princeton in 2004, and has held positions at the University of Pittsburgh and Balliol College, Oxford. She is the author of numerous articles on ethics, moral psychology, and epistemology in Plato and Aristotle, and of the book Aristotle on the Apparent Good: Perception, Phantasia, Thought, and Desire (Oxford, 2012)

Summary

Plato's Epistemology: Being and Seeming presents an original interpretation of one of the central topics in Plato's work: epistemology. Jessica Moss argues that Plato's epistemology is radically different from our own.

Product details

• Authors: Jessica Moss, Professor of Philosophy Jessica (New York Un Moss
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.04.2023
• EAN: 9780198888543
• ISBN: 978-0-19-888854-3
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, Ethics & moral philosophy, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Ethics and moral philosophy, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge