The Oxford Handbook of Plato  

Edited by Gail Fine

Abstract
The Oxford Handbook of Plato provides in-depth and up-to-date discussions of a variety of topics and dialogues in
twenty-one articles. The result is a useful reference to the man many consider the most important philosophical
thinker in history. Plato is the best known, and continues to be the most widely studied, of all the ancient Greek
philosophers. Each article serves several functions at once: they survey the lay of the land; they express and
develop the authors' own views; they situate those views within a range of alternatives. This book contains articles
on metaphysics, epistemology, ... More

Keywords: philosophical thinker, ancient Greek philosophers, metaphysics, epistemology, love, language, ethics,
politics, art, education, the Republic, Parmenides, Theaetetus, Sophist, Timaeus, Philebus, Platonic corpus,
Aristotle, Platonism

Bibliographic Information
Print Publication Date: Aug 2008 ISBN: 9780195182903
Published online: Sep 2009 DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195182903.001.0001

EDITOR

Gail Fine, editor

Gail Fine is Professor of Philosophy at Cornell University and Senior Research Fellow at Merton College, Oxford. She is the author
of On Ideas (Clarendon, 1993) and of Plato on Knowledge and Forms: Selected Essays (Clarendon, 2003), and the editor of Plato 1:
Metaphysics and Epistemology and of Plato 2: Ethics, Politics, Religion, and the Soul (Oxford University Press, 1999), both More