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  1. Nativism and Plato’s Epistemology: Knowledge, Awareness, and Innate True Belief in the Meno.Douglas A. Shepardson - 2024 - History of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 27 (1):1-29.
    This article provides a rigorous defense of innate true belief in the Meno, to my knowledge, the first of its kind. While several commentators have proposed innate true belief in the past, the position has never been defended or explained in detail. Instead, the most thorough discussions of Plato’s innatism have opted for different innate objects. I defend my proposal against these recent alternatives by showing that the passages often thought to imply innate knowledge can arguably be better read in (...)
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  • The Transition from the Lower to the Higher Mysteries of Love in Plato’s Symposium.Cristina Ionescu - 2007 - Dialogue 46 (1):27-42.
    ABSTRACT: In the Symposium Socrates shows how Diotima initiated him into the mysteries of love in two stages. Yet, at first sight, the teachings offered at the two stages seem divergent and discontinuous. In this article I argue that we can understand the continuity between them if we regard Diotima’s notions of spiritual pregnancy and birth-giving as metaphors suggesting that the metaphysical horizon looming in the background of her teaching is that of Plato’s theory of recollection.RÉSUMÉ: Socrate explique dans le (...)
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