{"product_id":"possibility-of-inquiry-menos-paradox-from-socrates-to-sextus-9780198822646","title":"Possibility of Inquiry: Meno's Paradox from Socrates to Sextus","description":"Gail Fine presents an original interpretation of a compelling puzzle in ancient philosophy. Meno's Paradox, which is first formulated in Plato's \u003cem\u003eMeno\u003c\/em\u003e, challenges the very possibility of inquiry. Plato replies with the theory of recollection, according to which we all had prenatal knowledge of some range of things, and what we call inquiry involves recollecting what we previously knew; he also illustrates this with his famous cross-examination of an untutored slave about a geometry problem, whose solution the slave is able to discover through inquiry. Hence, contrary to the paradox, inquiry is possible after all. Plato is not the only philosopher to grapple with Meno's Paradox: so too do Aristotle, the Epicureans, the Stoics, and Sextus. How do their various replies compare with one another, and with Plato's? How good are any of their replies? In a fascinating fragment preserved in Damascius' \u003cem\u003eCommentary on the Phaedo\u003c\/em\u003e, Plutarch briefly considers these questions (though for obvious chronological reasons he doesn't discuss Sextus). But Fine's book is the first full-length systematic treatment of the paradox and responses to it. Among the topics discussed are the nature of knowledge; how knowledge differs from mere true belief; the nature of inquiry; varieties of innatism; concepts and meaning; the scope and limits of experience. \u003cem\u003eThe Possibility of Inquiry\u003c\/em\u003e will be of interest to anyone interested in ancient epistemology, in ancient philosophy, or in epistemology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gail Fine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford Univ PR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 414\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.00w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198822646\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGail Fine\u003c\/strong\u003e earned her BA from the University of Michigan, and her PhD from Harvard University. Since 1975, she has been a professor in the Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell University. Since 2008, she has also been a Senior Research Fellow in Merton College, Oxford, and a Visiting Professor of Ancient Philosophy in the University of Oxford. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eOn Ideas: Aristotle's Criticisms of Plato's Theory of Forms\u003c\/em\u003e (Clarendon Press, 1993); of \u003cem\u003ePlato on Knowledge and Forms: Selected Essays\u003c\/em\u003e (Clarendon Press, 2003); and of many articles in various areas of ancient philosophy. She is also the editor of \u003cem\u003ePlato 1 and 2\u003c\/em\u003e in the Oxford Readings in Philosophy series (OUP, 1999), and of the \u003cem\u003eOxford Handbook of Plato\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP USA, 2008).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford Univ PR","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43182354989171,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":75.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_dc13e7d1-69f4-44ad-8493-b4459aa0a8f3.jpg?v=1752147915","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/possibility-of-inquiry-menos-paradox-from-socrates-to-sextus-9780198822646","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}