An edition of One book, the whole universe (2010)

One book, the whole universe

Plato's Timaeus today

One book, the whole universe
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Plato's Timaeus today

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Parmenides Pub.
Language
English
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406

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Table of Contents

Plato's cosmic manual : introduction, reader's guide, and acknowledgments -- Richard D. Mohr
Plato's Timaeus : some resonances in modern physics and cosmology -- Anthony J. Leggett
Cosmic craftsmanship in Plato and Stoicism -- Anthony A. Long
Philosopher kings and craftsman-gods -- Allan Silverman
Place of cosmology in Plato's later dialogues -- Charles H. Kahn
Maker or father? : the demiurge from Plutarch to Plotinus -- Matthias Vorwerk
Plato on (just about) everything : some observations on the Timaeus and other dialogues -- Thomas M. Robinson
Visualizing Platonic space -- Donald Zeyl
Receptacle and the primary bodies : something from nothing? -- Verity Harte
Timaeus and the critique of presocratic vortices -- Stephen Menn
What's the matter? : some neo-Platonist answers -- Ian Mueller
Derrida's Khôra, or Unnaming the Timaean receptacle -- Zina Giannopoulou
Should Aristotle have recognized final causes in Plato's Timaeus? -- Thomas K. Johansen
Aristotle on Plato on weight -- Alan Code
What makes a myth eikôs? : remarks inspired by Myles Burnyeat's Eikôs mythos -- Gábor Betegh
Epistemological section (29b-d) of the proem in Timaeus' speech : M. F. Burnyeat on eikôs mythos, and comparison with Xenophanes B34 and B35 -- Alexander P. D. Mourelatos
Time for learning and for counting : Egyptians, Greeks, and empirical processes in Plato's Timaeus -- Barbara M. Sattler
Narrative orders in the Timaeus and Critias -- Kathryn A. Morgan
Timaeus in tinseltown : Atlantis in film -- Jon Solomon
Atlantis effect : the lost origins of architecture -- Anthony Vidler
Plato's Timaeus and the aesthetics of "animate form" -- Ann Bergren
Time and change in an eternal universe -- Sean M. Carroll.

Edition Notes

Chiefly derived from papers presented at a conference held Sept. 13-16, 2007 at the University of Illinois (Urbana).

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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Las Vegas

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Library of Congress
B387 .O53 2010, B387.O53 2010

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406 p. :
Number of pages
406

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OL24523007M
ISBN 10
1930972326, 193097261X
ISBN 13
9781930972322, 9781930972612
LCCN
2010000651
OCLC/WorldCat
298181490

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