Psychology and Ontology in Plato

Luca Pitteloud is professor of ancient philosophy at the Federal University of ABC (UFABC) in São Paulo, Brazil. He did his undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. Between 2013 and 2016, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Brasília (UnB), at the Federal University of Pará (UFPA) in Belém (Amazonia) and at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Evan Keeling is professor of ancient philosophy at the University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil. He did his PhD at the University of Virginia, after which he came to USP, first as a postdoctoral researcher and then as professor doctor.

Chapter 1. Imagination for Philosophical Exercise in Plato's Republic: The Story of   Gyges' ring and the Simile of the Sun.- Chapter  2. Dionysian Plato in the Symposium.- Chapter 3. Separation of Body and Soul in Plato's Phaedo: an Unprecedented Ontological Operation in the Affinity Argument.- Chapter 4. Plato and the 'Internal Dialogue': An Ancient Answer for a New Model of the Self.- Chapter 5. Pathos in the Theaetetus.- Chapter 6. The Analogy between Vice and Disease from the Republic to the Timaeus.- Chpater 7. Why is the World Soul Composed by Being, Sameness and Difference?.- Chpater 8. Can One Speak of Teleology In Plato?.- Chpater 9. Nomos: Logismós ton Epithymion. Plato's Laws and the (De)formation of Desires.