Blake E. Hestir (Texas Christian University)

Plato on the Metaphysical Foundation of Meaning and Truth

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Produktbeschreibung

Blake E. Hestir's examination of passages from Plato's Cratylus, Parmenides, Theaetetus and Sophist sheds new light on Plato's conception of meaning and truth, bringing it into dialogue with contemporary truth theory, metaphysics, and semantics, as well as highlighting new and striking parallels between Plato and Aristotle.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9781107584808
• ISBN-10: 1107584809
• Artikelnr.: 54642903

Autorenporträt

Blake E. Hestir is Associate Professor and Department Chair in the Department of Philosophy at Texas Christian University. He has published articles in a number of journals including the Journal of the History of Philosophy, Apeiron, and History of Philosophy Quarterly.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
Part I. Stability: 2. Strong Platonism, restricted Platonism, and stability
3. Concerns about stability in the Cratylus
4. Flux and language in the Theaetetus
5. The foundation exposed: Parmenides 135bc
Part II. Combination: 6. Being as capacity and combination: a challenge for the friends of the forms
7. The problem of predication: the challenge of the late-learners
Part III. Truth: 8. Predication, meaning, and truth in the Sophist
9. Plato's conception of truth
10. Truth as being and a substantive property.