22 - I Know, Because the Caged Bird Sings: Plato's Theaetetus
Posted on 27 February 2011
Peter examines Plato’s "Theaetetus", discussing the relativist doctrine of Protagoras, the flux doctrine of Heraclitus, and the two famous images of the wax tablet and aviary.
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Further Reading:
D. Bostock, Plato’s Theaetetus (Oxford: 1988).
M.F. Burnyeat, The Theaetetus of Plato (Indianapolis: 1990).
M.F. Burnyeat, “Protagoras and self-refutation in Plato’s Theaetetus,” in S. Everson (ed.), Companions to Ancient Thought I: Epistemology (Cambridge: 1989), 39-59.
G. Fine, “False Belief in the Theaetetus,” Phronesis 24 (1979), 70-80.
G. Fine, “Protagorean Relativisms,” Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy 19 (1996), 211-243.
J. McDowell, Plato: Theaetetus (Oxford: 1973).
R. Woolf, "A Shaggy Soul Story: How Not to Read the Wax Tablet Model in Plato’s Theaetetus," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 69 (2004), 573-604.
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