Acknowledgments | |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Cosmology, Cosmogony and Teleology | p. 17 |
Plato and modern cosmology | p. 17 |
The chaos of the elements | p. 22 |
Chaos and cosmogony | p. 24 |
Atomists, physiologoi and cosmoi | p. 26 |
Recurring cosmological problems | p. 30 |
Biology and zoogony | p. 34 |
Empedocles | p. 37 |
The shapes and sizes of atoms | p. 39 |
A teleological cosmos vs. multiple entities | p. 42 |
Cosmological reasons for teleology | p. 45 |
Astronomy, Observation and Experiment | p. 48 |
Two worlds and investigation | p. 49 |
The dynamics of investigation | p. 51 |
Vlastos on investigation | p. 53 |
Doing astronomy and teaching astronomy | p. 55 |
'Real' astronomy | p. 58 |
The Republic and other works | p. 61 |
Celestial motion in the Republic | p. 64 |
Timaeus 68b-d | p. 67 |
Plato and experiment | p. 70 |
Memo's Paradox and Underdetermination | p. 74 |
The modern underdetermination problem | p. 75 |
The Duhem-Quine thesis | p. 78 |
Meno's paradox | p. 80 |
Socrates' autobiography | p. 82 |
Teleology and the Phaedo | p. 85 |
Healthy hypotheses | p. 87 |
Teleology and epistemology | p. 90 |
Duhem and instrumentalism | p. 93 |
Seving the phenomena | p. 97 |
Celestial Motion in the Timaeus | p. 101 |
Disorderly and degenerating cosmologies | p. 101 |
The myth of the Politicus | p. 103 |
Celestial motion in the Timaeus | p. 105 |
Celestial motion in later Plato | p. 109 |
The Politicus myth and the Timaeus | p. 111 |
Reason and necessity | p. 113 |
Implications for causation | p. 115 |
Political, social and moral decline | p. 118 |
The implications of a stable cosmology | p. 121 |
Plato and the Development of Greek Astronomy | p. 124 |
The Republic and the myth of Er | p. 125 |
The Timaeus model | p. 128 |
Retrogression and deviation in latitude | p. 131 |
Venus, Mercury and the contrary power | p. 136 |
Eclipses and occlusions | p. 139 |
Variations in planetary velocity and distance | p. 145 |
Prototype or finished article? | p. 148 |
The astronomical and cosmological traditions | p. 153 |
Plato and Eudoxus | p. 155 |
Meno's paradox and astronomy | p. 157 |
Plato and the Development of Greek Cosmology | p. 159 |
Plato and the Presocratics | p. 160 |
Plato and geocentrism | p. 162 |
The Greeks and geocentrism | p. 164 |
The animate heavens | p. 167 |
Nomological realism | p. 170 |
Civil law and physical law | p. 173 |
Analogues for physical processes | p. 175 |
Plato and subsequent astronomy | p. 178 |
Plato and subsequent cosmology | p. 183 |
Geometrical Atomism - Flux and Language | p. 187 |
The receptacle and language | p. 188 |
Some paradoxes | p. 191 |
Geometrical atomism | p. 194 |
Letters, syllables and triangles | p. 196 |
The evidence of Aristotle | p. 200 |
The ageing process | p. 203 |
The gold example | p. 205 |
Geometrical atomism and Socrates' dream | p. 208 |
Geometrical atomism and language | p. 210 |
Geometrical Atomism - Matter and Space | p. 214 |
The receptacle and metaphors | p. 215 |
The Timaeus and empty space | p. 217 |
Material metaphors | p. 218 |
Spatial metaphors | p. 221 |
The receptacle and qualities | p. 223 |
Perception in the Timaeus and Theaetetus | p. 227 |
The evidence of Aristotle | p. 229 |
Plato, Democritus and Descartes | p. 231 |
Teleology and bonding | p. 235 |
The significance of geometrical atomism | p. 238 |
Epistemology in the Timaeus and Philebus | p. 241 |
World soul and human souls | p. 242 |
Souls and common concepts | p. 245 |
Souls and epistemology | p. 247 |
Timaeus 27c-29d and two worlds (TW) theory | p. 250 |
Two worlds and stability | p. 253 |
Writing and paidia | p. 255 |
Plato and myth | p. 258 |
Interpreting the Timaeus | p. 259 |
The Philebus and divine cosmology | p. 262 |
Conclusion | p. 265 |
The role of empirical work | p. 265 |
Plato as a scientific (proto-)realist | p. 266 |
Reasons for teleology | p. 267 |
The aims of the investigation of nature | p. 269 |
Plato's developing philosophy of science | p. 270 |
Criticisms of the atomists and physiologoi | p. 271 |
Plato relative to the atomists and physiologoi | p. 273 |
Plato's philosophy of science | p. 274 |
Notes | p. 275 |
Bibliography | p. 307 |
Index Locorum | p. 325 |
Index of Names | p. 330 |
General Index | p. 332 |
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