{"product_id":"platos-epistemology-jessica-moss-9780198867401","title":"Plato's Epistemology: Being and Seeming","description":"\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. \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\u003eepistﾃamﾃa\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003edoxa\u003c\/em\u003e, are each essentially to be understood as cognition of a certain kind of object. \u003cem\u003eEpistﾃamﾃa\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\u003eepistﾃamﾃa\u003c\/em\u003e of perceptibles. Finally, Moss contends that Plato's epistemology is so different 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jessica Moss\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0198867409\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198867401\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/11\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 270\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.50h x 6.30w x 1.10d","brand":"Jessica Moss","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43986611765503,"sku":"9780198867401","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2453dd35-2f79-4f05-a246-dd4e18a9b218.jpg?v=1683284384","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/platos-epistemology-jessica-moss-9780198867401","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}