Knowledge and Ignorance of Self in Platonic Philosophy

James M. Ambury is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at King's College, Pennsylvania. He has published articles in journals including Ancient Philosophy, International Philosophical Quarterly, Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, Dionysius, and Plato. Andy German is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. He is the editor of Platonic Production: Theme and Variations: The Gilson Letters (2015), and the author of articles in journals including the British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Review of Metaphysics, Epoché, and Polis.

Introduction: self-knowledge as thematic intersection Andy German and James M. Ambury; 1. Self-knowledge and the good Lloyd P. Gerson; 2. Two faces of platonic self-knowledge: Alcibiades I and Charmides Thomas Tuozzo; 3. Socratic self-knowledge and the limits of Epistēmē Drew A. Hyland; 4. Socratic wisdom and platonic knowledge in the dialogues of Plato Sara Ahbel Rappe; 5. Between ascent and descent: self-knowledge and Plato's allegory of the cave James M. Ambury; 6. Self-knowledge and the use of the self in the Platonic Theages Brian Marrin; 7. Between biography and biology: bios and self-knowledge in Plato's Phaedrus Sara Brill; 8. A toil-loving soul Jeremy Bell; 9. Mathematical self-ignorance and sophistry: Theodorus and Protagoras Andy German; 10. Why is knowledge of ignorance good? Marina McCoy; 11. Self-knowledge in Plato's Symposium Eric Sanday; 12. Double ignorance and the perversion of self-knowledge Danielle A. Layne; 13. Philebus, Laws and self-ignorance Harold Tarrant.