Gail Fine — Plato On Knowledge And Forms: Selected Essays

Oxford University Press, 2003. Softcover. Near Fine Condition. 9780199245598 Firmly bound, clean unmarked pages, previous owner's name and date to half-title page, slight wear to cover edges. This welcome anthology collects together fifteen of her published papers, some of them lightly touched up for clarity and scholarly accuracy, but mainly as they appeared originally. Also welcome is a full, clear, and mildly polemical Introduction, in which Fine traces the main themes of her work and responds selectively to her critics. The Introduction is a model of its kind: Fine addresses her critics with the same care and intensity she displays in analyzing Platonic texts, with the result that those not already versed in the intricacies of Platonic exegesis may be brought swiftly up to speed, at least as regards the topics of special concern to Fine. Because these topics include most of those central to Platonic metaphysics and epistemology, the Introduction will prove of special value to advanced students first immersing themselves in the contemporary scholarly literature on Plato. - Christopher Shields, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 462 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Philosophy; ISBN/EAN: 9780199245598. Inventory No: dscf12190.