On Socrates’ Manipulative Dealing with Theaetetus’ First Claim about Knowledge

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. List of Tables VII
4. Introduction IX
5. Part I: On Stage and Behind the Scene
6. Plato’s Self-References 1
7. The Old and the New Socrates in the Theaetetus 11
8. Part II: Method
9. On Plato’s Methodological Strategy (Theaetetus 151d–186e): From Hypothesis to Self-Refutation 23
10. Dialectic in the Theaetetus 35
11. Part III: Subject and Object of Perception in the Flux
12. Heraclitus, Protagoras and Plato: Theaetetus 155d1–160e4 53
13. On Socrates’ Manipulative Dealing with Theaetetus’ First Claim about Knowledge 65
14. Peritrope Once Again 89
15. Platonic Epistemology and the Internalist-Externalist Debate 107
16. ‘We Are What We Eat’: The Theaetetus as a Philosophy of Education 131
17. Part IV: Knowledge and Thinking
18. Soul in the Theaetetus 149
19. Disposition in the Aviary Model 159
20. Thinking as Conversation in Plato’s Theaetetus 173
21. Traces of Euporia in an Aporetic Dialogue: Relational Ontology in Plato’s Theaetetus 193
22. Part V: The Reception
23. Intra-Socratic Polemics in Plato’s Theaetetus: Antisthenes and the Dream Theory 209
24. The Theaetetus as a First Step on the Path to a New Academy 225
25. The Textual Tradition of the Theaetetus from Stobaeus to the Medieval Anthologies 251
26. Bibliography 277
27. List of Contributors 291
28. Index 295