Table of Contents

Part One: Knowledge, Truth and Belief
1: Knowledge, Conceptual knowledge and the Iconic Route to Grasping an Idea
2: Truth and belief
Part Two: Plato's Meno
3: Introduction and summary for Part Two: Plato's Meno
4: Knowing what virtue is in Plato's Meno
5: Knowledge and correct impressions in Plato's Meno
Part Three: Plato's Republic
6: Introduction and summary for Part Three: Plato's Republic
7: Discovering what justice is, in Plato's Republic
8: Platonic method: the philosopher's route to knowledge in Plato's Republic
Part Four: Plato's Theaetetus
9: Introduction and summary for Part 4: Plato's Theaetetus
10: Geometry and the Scientific Project: Theaetetus 142a-184b
11: The division between Sense Perception and non-sensory Doxa in the Interlude: Theaetetus 184a to 187b
12: On the failure of the remaining two attempts to analyse episteme: Theaetetus 187b to 210a
Part Five: The Bigger Picture
13: Conclusions and further tasks

About the Author

Catherine Rowett studied classics and ancient philosophy at Cambridge. She held research fellowships in Cambridge and Oxford, before accepting academic posts in Swansea, Liverpool and the University of East Anglia in Norwich, which is where she is currently professor of Philosophy. She is the author (under her previous name 'Osborne') of six books, including Rethinking Early Greek Philosophy (Duckworth 1987), Eros Unveiled (Oxford 1994), and
Dumb Beasts and Dead Philosophers (Oxford 2007), as well as a range of articles and chapters on all aspects of ancient philosophy. She reverted to her maiden name in 2012.