Mary Margaret Mackenzie
Biographic Data
| ID | 5634652 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary Margaret Mackenzie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary Margaret |
| FAMILY NAME | Mackenzie |
| SIGNATURE | MACKENZIE M M |
| AFFILIATIONS | 1New Hall, Cambridge |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Images of Authority
Plato's Theory of Explanation
The Virtues of Socratic Ignorance
Plato's Socrates denies that he knows. Yet he frequently claims that he does have certainty and knowledge. How can he avoid contradiction between his general stance about knowledge (that he lacks it) and his particular claims to have it? Socrates' disavowal of knowledge is central to his defence in the Apology . For here he rebuts the accusation that he teaches – and thus corrupts – the young by telling the jury that he cannot teach just because …
The Moving Posset Stands Still
Putting the Cratylus in its Place
The Cratylus begins with a paradox; it ends with a paradox; and it has a paradox in between. But this disturbing characteristic of the dialogue has been overshadowed, not to say ignored, in the literature. For commentators have seen it as their task to discover exactly what theory of language Plato himself, despite his declared perplexity, intends to adopt as he rejects the alternatives of Hermogenes and Cratylus. A common view, then, has been to…
Paradox in Plato's ‘Phaedrus’
A paradox is like a pun. It is also like a Delphic oracle. For in all three cases, we escape puzzlement, or spoil the joke, when we interpret, when we follow the tracks of the words and disentangle their meaning. So paradoxes are about words - either about the relation between one word and another, or about the relation between words and the world; and the punch of the paradox is delivered by its verbal content. Thus it is characteristic of a goo…
Parmenides' Dilemma
A Pyrrhic Victory
Crime pays, says Polus at Gorgias 473. Socrates, on the other hand, maintains two propositions in the face of universal opinion
The Virtues of Socratic Ignorance
Plato's Socrates denies that he knows. Yet he frequently claims that he does have certainty and knowledge. How can he avoid contradiction between his general stance about knowledge (that he lacks it) and his particular claims to have it? Socrates' disavowal of knowledge is central to his defence in the Apology . For here he rebuts the accusation that he teaches – and thus corrupts – the young by telling the jury that he cannot teach just because …
Putting the Cratylus in its Place
The Cratylus begins with a paradox; it ends with a paradox; and it has a paradox in between. But this disturbing characteristic of the dialogue has been overshadowed, not to say ignored, in the literature. For commentators have seen it as their task to discover exactly what theory of language Plato himself, despite his declared perplexity, intends to adopt as he rejects the alternatives of Hermogenes and Cratylus. A common view, then, has been to…
The Moving Posset Stands Still
Parmenides' Dilemma
Paradox in Plato's ‘Phaedrus’
A paradox is like a pun. It is also like a Delphic oracle. For in all three cases, we escape puzzlement, or spoil the joke, when we interpret, when we follow the tracks of the words and disentangle their meaning. So paradoxes are about words - either about the relation between one word and another, or about the relation between words and the world; and the punch of the paradox is delivered by its verbal content. Thus it is characteristic of a goo…
Parmenides' Dilemma
A Pyrrhic Victory
Crime pays, says Polus at Gorgias 473. Socrates, on the other hand, maintains two propositions in the face of universal opinion
The Moving Posset Stands Still
Putting the Cratylus in its Place
The Cratylus begins with a paradox; it ends with a paradox; and it has a paradox in between. But this disturbing characteristic of the dialogue has been overshadowed, not to say ignored, in the literature. For commentators have seen it as their task to discover exactly what theory of language Plato himself, despite his declared perplexity, intends to adopt as he rejects the alternatives of Hermogenes and Cratylus. A common view, then, has been to…
The Virtues of Socratic Ignorance
Plato's Socrates denies that he knows. Yet he frequently claims that he does have certainty and knowledge. How can he avoid contradiction between his general stance about knowledge (that he lacks it) and his particular claims to have it? Socrates' disavowal of knowledge is central to his defence in the Apology . For here he rebuts the accusation that he teaches – and thus corrupts – the young by telling the jury that he cannot teach just because …
Plato's Theory of Explanation
Images of Authority
Philosophy (7 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (6 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · SOCRATES (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works)