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Plato's 'Real Astronomy': Republic 527d–531d

In John Peter Anton (ed.), Science and the sciences in Plato. Delmar, N.Y.: Caravan Books (1980)

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  1. Is There a Concept of Experimental Error in Greek Astronomy?Giora Hon - 1989 - British Journal for the History of Science 22 (2):129-150.
    The attempt to narrow the general discourse of the problem of error and to focus it on the specific problem of experimental error may be approached from different directions. One possibility is to establish a focusing process from the standpoint of history; such an approach requires a careful scrutiny of the history of science with a view to identifying the juncture when the problem of experimental error was properly understood and accounted for. In a study of this kind one would (...)
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  • The Problem is not Mathematics, but Mathematicians: Plato and the Mathematicians Again.H. H. Benson - 2012 - Philosophia Mathematica 20 (2):170-199.
    I argue against a formidable interpretation of Plato’s Divided Line image according to which dianoetic correctly applies the same method as dialectic. The difference between the dianoetic and dialectic sections of the Line is not methodological, but ontological. I maintain that while this interpretation correctly identifies the mathematical method with dialectic, ( i.e. , the method of philosophy), it incorrectly identifies the mathematical method with dianoetic. Rather, Plato takes dianoetic to be a misapplication of the mathematical method by a subset (...)
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  • Phainomena in Aristotle's methodology.John J. Cleary - 1994 - International Journal of Philosophical Studies 2 (1):61 – 97.
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  • Plato and Eudoxus: Instrumentalists, realists, or prisoners of themata?Norriss S. Hetherington - 1996 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 27 (2):271-289.
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