Reading Plato's Theaetetus / Timothy Chappell.
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Indianapolis, Ind. :
Hackett Pub. Co.,
2005.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. About this book
- 2. About Plato and his works
- 3. About Platonic dialogues, and about the Theaetetus
- 4. The overall structure of the Theaetetus
- 5. Alternative interpretations of the Theaetetus as a whole
- 6. The introduction to the dialogue : 142a-145e
- 7. The question "what is knowledge?", and the rejection of D0, a definition by examples : 145e7-147c6
- 8. A contrasting case : definition in mathematics : 147c7-148e5
- 9. Socrates the midwife's apprentice : 148e6-151d7
- 10. First definition (D1) and consequent discussion : "knowledge is perception" : survey of 151-187
- 11. The statement of Theaetetus' first genuine definition (D1) : 151d8-e4
- 12. First statement of Protagoras' views : 151e5-152c8
- 13. First statement of Heracleitus' views : 152c8-152e1
- 14. Eight bad arguments for the doctrine of flux : 152e1-153d5
- 15. Three shocking implications of flux : 153d6-155c7
- 16. The flux theory of perception : 155c8-157c
- 17. The dreamer objection to the flux theory of perception : 157c2-160e1
- 18. The refutation of the thesis that knowledge is perception (160e2-187b1)
- 19. Three objections to Protagoras' homomensura thesis : 160-163a
- 20. Four objections to D1 : 163a7-168c2
- 21. Objection H to Protagoras : the Peritrope : 168c2-171c7
- 22. Objection I to Protagoras : divorcing justice from benefit : 171c7-172b9
- 23. The digression : 172c1-177b8
- 24. Objection J to Protagoras : expertise and the future : 177b8-179b9
- 25. Objection K to Heracleitus : flux and self-refutation : 179c1-183c2
- 26. Objection L : the final refutation of D1 : 183c3-187a9
- 27. Second definition (D2) and consequent discussion : "knowledge is true belief" : survey of 187-201
- 28. First puzzle about false belief : misidentification : 187e5-188c7
- 29. Second puzzle about false belief : "believing what is not" : 188c8-189b9
- 30. Third puzzle about false belief : allodoxia : 189b10-190e4
- 31. Fourth puzzle about false belief : the wax tablet : 190e5-196c6
- 32. Fifth puzzle about false belief : the aviary : 196c7-200d4
- 33. The final refutation of D2 : 200d5-201c7
- 34. Third definition (D3) and consequent discussion : "knowledge is true belief with an account" : survey of 201c8-210d4
- 35. The dream of Socrates : 201d8-202d7
- 36. Critique of the dream theory : 202d8-206c2
- 37. First attempt to understand logos : as speech : 206c2-e3
- 38. Second attempt to understand logos : as an account that goes through the elements : 206e4-208b10
- 39. Third attempt to understand logos : as an account of the semeion : 208b11-210a9
- 40. Conclusion : 210a9-210d4.
