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Congresses, Ancient Cosmogony, Cosmogony, PlatoPeople
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One book, the whole universe: Plato's Timaeus today
2010, Parmenides Pub.
in English
1930972326 9781930972322
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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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