{"product_id":"platos-epistemology-being-and-seeming-hardcover","title":"Plato's Epistemology: Being and Seeming - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJessica Moss\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePlato's Epistemology: Being and Seeming\u003c\/em\u003e presents an original interpretation of one of the central topics in Plato's work: epistemology. Jessica Moss argues that Plato's epistemology is radically different from our own. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGoing against the grain of recent scholarship, and drawing on ancient interpretations of Plato, Jessica Moss argues that Plato is not best understood as studying what we now call knowledge and belief. Instead, Moss proposes that the central players in his epistemology, \u003cem\u003eepistÃamÃa\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003edoxa\u003c\/em\u003e, are each essentially to be understood as cognition of a certain kind of object. \u003cem\u003eEpistÃamÃa\u003c\/em\u003e is cognition of what Is - where this turns out to mean that it is a deep grasp of ultimate reality. \u003cem\u003eDoxa\u003c\/em\u003e is cognition of what seems - where this turns out to mean that it is atheoretical thought that mistakes images for reality. The book defends these characterizations by arguing that they explain important features of Plato's epistemology. In particular, it shows that they underlie and make sense of a view which was long attributed to Plato but has recently been deemed \"outrageous\" that there is no \u003cem\u003edoxa\u003c\/em\u003e of Forms, and no \u003cem\u003eepistÃamÃa\u003c\/em\u003e of perceptibles. Finally, Moss contends that Plato's epistemology is so\u003cbr\u003edifferent from modern epistemology because it is motivated by his central ethical and metaphysical views. As the Cave allegory illustrates, he holds that the goal of life is to be in contact with genuine Being, and that the greatest obstacle to this goal is our tendency to rest content with appearances. Therefore, when Plato turns to epistemological investigations, the distinction he finds most salient is that between cognition of what Is and cognition of what seems.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJessica Moss, \u003cem\u003eProfessor of Philosophy, NYU\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJessica Moss is a Professor of Philosophy at NYU. She received her PhD from Princeton in 2004, and has held positions at the University of Pittsburgh and Balliol College, Oxford. She is the author of numerous articles on ethics, moral psychology, and epistemology in Plato and Aristotle, and of the book \u003cem\u003eAristotle on the Apparent Good: Perception, Phantasia, Thought, and Desire\u003c\/em\u003e (Oxford, 2012). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 9.5 x 6.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 11, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42728537161791,"sku":"9780198867401","price":225.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/8576fb278429d258487d24773177233a.webp?v=1765118873","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/platos-epistemology-being-and-seeming-hardcover","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}