Theaetetus
$36.56
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
24 March 2014
Summary
‘What exactly is knowledge?’
The Theaetetus is a seminal text in the philosophy of knowledge, and is acknowledged as one of Plato’s finest works. Cast as a conversation between Socrates and a clever but modest student, Theaetetus, it explores one of the key issues in philosophy: what is knowledge? Though no definite answer is reached, the discussion is penetrating and wide-ranging, covering the claims of perception to be knowledge, the theory that all is in motion, and the pe…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199646166 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0199646163 |
| Author: | Plato, John McDowell, Lesley Brown |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 24 March 2014 |
| Weight: | 160g |
| Dimensions: | 12mm x 129mm x 196mm |
| Series: | Oxford World's Classics |
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Critics Review
strongly recommended for undergraduates and anyone with a serious interest in Plato.
strongly recommended for undergraduates and anyone with a serious interest in Plato. * Colin Leach, Classics for All *
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John McDowell taught at University College, Oxford before moving to Pittsburgh in 1986. He was the John Locke Lecturer at the University of Oxford in 1991. His publications include Mind and World (1994), Mind, Value, and Reality (1998), and Meaning, Knowledge, and Reality (1998), all published by Harvard University Press. His edition of Plato’s Theaetetus was published in the Clarendon Plato series in 1973.
Lesley Brown was Centenary Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Somerville College and a University Lecturer in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Oxford; she is now an emeritus fellow. She has published widely on Plato’s dialogues, notably the Theaetetus and Sophist, as well as on Aristotle. She wrote the Introduction and Notes for the new edition of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics in OWC (2009).
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