Allan Silverman
Biographic Data
| ID | 1208666 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Allan Silverman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Allan |
| FAMILY NAME | Silverman |
| SIGNATURE | SILVERMAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Grounding, Analogy, and Aristotle’s Critique of Plato’s Idea of the Good
In recent years, there has been a revival of interest in Aristotelian metaphysics. Among the prominent contemporary neo-Aristotelians one would include Gideon Rosen, Jonathan Schaffer, and especially Kit Fine, whose interest in Aristotelian approaches dates back at least to the 1980s. Doubtless, there are many differences among their respective views. But it is safe to say that all of them emphasize a relation of grounding or dependence that serv…
The Dialectic of Essence
The Dialectic of Essence offers a systematic new account of Plato's metaphysics. Allan Silverman argues that the best way to make sense of the metaphysics as a whole is to examine carefully what Plato says about ousia (essence) from the Meno through the middle period dialogues, the Phaedo and the Republic , and into several late dialogues including the Parmenides , the Sophist , the Philebus , and the Timaeus . This book focuses on three fundamen…
Metaphysics and Individual Souls in the Phaedo
Plato's Individuals
Language. Vol. 3 of Companions to Ancient Thought
The Toils of Scepticism
Plato’s Cratylus
The Cratylus is Plato’s only dialogue-length treatment of an issue which today we would consider to be part of the philosophy of language. While his way of putting the question under consideration – ‘What is [the cause of] the correctness of names?’–and the proposed answers–convention or nature–are slightly unusual, the nexus of elements which dominate his discussion is quite familiar. The Cratylus is an investigation into the problem of how name…
Timaean Particulars
At 47e–53c of the Timaeus Plato presents his most detailed metaphysical analysis of particulars. We are told about the construction of the physical universe, the ways we can and cannot talk about the phenomena produced, and about the two causes – Necessity and Intelligence – which govern the processes and results of production. It seems to me that we are told too much and too little: too much, because we have two accounts of the generation of phe…
Plato on Perception and ‘Commons’
On the face of it, Plato's treatment of aisthesis is decidedly ambiguous. Sometimes he treats aisthesis as a faculty which, though distinct from all rational capacities, is nonetheless capable of forming judgments such as ‘This stick is bent’ or ‘The same thing is hard and soft’. In the Theaetetus , however, he appears to separate aisthesis from judgment, isolating the former from all prepositional, identificatory and recognitional capacities. Th…
Color and Color-Perception in Aristotle’s De anima
Plato on Perception and ‘Commons’
On the face of it, Plato's treatment of aisthesis is decidedly ambiguous. Sometimes he treats aisthesis as a faculty which, though distinct from all rational capacities, is nonetheless capable of forming judgments such as ‘This stick is bent’ or ‘The same thing is hard and soft’. In the Theaetetus , however, he appears to separate aisthesis from judgment, isolating the former from all prepositional, identificatory and recognitional capacities. Th…
Color and Color-Perception in Aristotle’s De anima
Plato on Perception and ‘Commons’
On the face of it, Plato's treatment of aisthesis is decidedly ambiguous. Sometimes he treats aisthesis as a faculty which, though distinct from all rational capacities, is nonetheless capable of forming judgments such as ‘This stick is bent’ or ‘The same thing is hard and soft’. In the Theaetetus , however, he appears to separate aisthesis from judgment, isolating the former from all prepositional, identificatory and recognitional capacities. Th…
Plato’s Cratylus
The Cratylus is Plato’s only dialogue-length treatment of an issue which today we would consider to be part of the philosophy of language. While his way of putting the question under consideration – ‘What is [the cause of] the correctness of names?’–and the proposed answers–convention or nature–are slightly unusual, the nexus of elements which dominate his discussion is quite familiar. The Cratylus is an investigation into the problem of how name…
Timaean Particulars
At 47e–53c of the Timaeus Plato presents his most detailed metaphysical analysis of particulars. We are told about the construction of the physical universe, the ways we can and cannot talk about the phenomena produced, and about the two causes – Necessity and Intelligence – which govern the processes and results of production. It seems to me that we are told too much and too little: too much, because we have two accounts of the generation of phe…
The Toils of Scepticism
Language. Vol. 3 of Companions to Ancient Thought
Plato's Individuals
The Dialectic of Essence
The Dialectic of Essence offers a systematic new account of Plato's metaphysics. Allan Silverman argues that the best way to make sense of the metaphysics as a whole is to examine carefully what Plato says about ousia (essence) from the Meno through the middle period dialogues, the Phaedo and the Republic , and into several late dialogues including the Parmenides , the Sophist , the Philebus , and the Timaeus . This book focuses on three fundamen…
Metaphysics and Individual Souls in the Phaedo
Grounding, Analogy, and Aristotle’s Critique of Plato’s Idea of the Good
In recent years, there has been a revival of interest in Aristotelian metaphysics. Among the prominent contemporary neo-Aristotelians one would include Gideon Rosen, Jonathan Schaffer, and especially Kit Fine, whose interest in Aristotelian approaches dates back at least to the 1980s. Doubtless, there are many differences among their respective views. But it is safe to say that all of them emphasize a relation of grounding or dependence that serv…
Philosophy (10 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (7 works) · Metaphysics (4 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · History (2 works) · Medieval and Classical Philosophy (2 works) · Perception (2 works) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (2 works)