Selected Bibliography on Plato's Parmenides

 

 

Index of the Section: "Semantics and Predication in Plato's Dialogues"

• Plato: Bibliographical Resources

• Plato's Parmenides and the Dilemma of Participation

  • Annotated Bibliography on Plato's Parmenides

• Semantics, Predication, Truth and Falsehood in Plato's Sophist

  • Annotated Bibliography on Plato's Sophist:

  • A - J

  • K - Z

• Plato's Cratylus and the Problem of the "Correctness of Names" (in preparation)

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY ON PLATO'S PARMENIDES

N.B. I will dedicate to the "Third Man Argument" a separate bibliography; for the critical editions and translations of the Dialogue see: Plato: Bibliographical Resources on Selected Dialogues

1. Il Parmenide di Platone e la sua tradizione. Edited by Barbanti Maria and Romano Francesco. Catania: CUECM 2002.
   Atti del III Colloquio Internazionale del centro di Ricerca sul Neoplatonismo. Università degli Studi di Catania, 31 maggio - 2 giugno 2001.
   Indice: M. Barbanti, F. Romano: Prefazione 7; Carlos Steel: Une histoire de l'interpretation du Parménide dans l'antiquité 11; Luc Brisson: S'il (= le monde) est un. La seconde partie du Parménide de Platon considerée du point de vue de Parménide et de Zénon 41; Maurizio Migliori: L'unità del Parmenide e it suo intento protrettico 59; Franco Ferrari: Unità e oggetto del Parmenide. Problemi e proposte 85; Giovanni Casertano: Ogni uno di fronte a gioventù e vecchiaia 109; Franco Trabattoni: L'errore di Socrate 143; R. Loredana Cardullo: Il Peri Ideondi Aristotele e il Parmenide di Platone, ovvero: da un comune tentativo di "salvare" le idee verso un inevitabile scontro dottrinale155; Eva Di Stefano: Il Parmenide di Platone e il Didaskalikos di Alcinoo185; Francesco Romano: La probabile esegesi pitagorizzante (accademica, medioplatonica e neopitagorica) del Parmenide di Platone 197; Maria Barbanti: La teologia di Origene e la prima ipotesi del Parmenide 249; Gerald Bechtle: Speusippus and the Anonymous Commentary on Plato's Parmenides: how can the One be a Minimum? 281; Alessandro Linguiti: Sulla datazione del Commento al Parmenide di Bobbio. Un'analisi lessicale 307; Jean Pépin: Le Parménide dans les Sentences de Porphyre 323; John Dillon: Iamblichus' identifications of the subject-matters of the hypotheses 329; John J. Cleary: Proclus' elaborate defense of Platonic Ideas 341; Lambros Couloubaritsis: Georges Pachymere et leParménide de Platon 355; Cocetto Martello: Riflessi del Parmenide in Giovanni Eriugena 371; Werner Beierwaltes: L'interpretazione ficiniana del Parmenide platonico 389; Annalisa raponi: Natorp e il Parmenide di Platone 411; Piero Di Giovanni: Il "Parmenide" di Platone nell'opera di Enzo Paci 425; Paolo Manganaro: Parmenide tra Heidegger e Platone 447-456.
2. Platone e l'ontologia. Il Parmenide e il Sofista. Edited by Bianchetti Matteo and Storace Erasmo. Milano: Albo Versorio 2004.
3. Plato's Parmenides. Proceedings of the Fourth Symposium Platonicum Pragense. Edited by Havlicek Ales and Karfik Filip. Prague: OIKOYMENH Publishers 2005.
   Contents: Preface 7; Constance C. Meinwald: Literary elements and dialogue form in Plato's Parmenides 9; Dimitri El Murr: La critique de la participation en Parménide, 131a-132b: unité, unicité et le paradoxe de Zenon 21; Béatriz Bossi: Is Socrates really defending conceptualism in Parmenides, 132b3-d4? 58; Karel Thein: The second "Third Man Argument": what difference does the likeness make? 75; Francesco Fronterotta:Methexis et Korismos dans l'interpretation du Parménide de Platon 88; Kenneth Sayre: The method revisited: Parmenides, 135e9-136c6 125; Filip Karfik: Par rapport a soi-meme et par rapport aux autres. Une distinction clef dans le Parménide de Platon 141; Samuel Scolnicov: The conditions of knowledge in Plato's Parmenides 165; Stepán Spinka: Relation, Sein und Zeit 181; David Ambuel: On what is not: Eleatic paradox in the Parmenides and the Sophist 200; Luc Brisson: Les quatre dernières series de deductions dans la seconde partie du Parménide de Platon 216; Denis O'Brien: Le Parménide historique et le Parménide de Platon 234; Luc Brisson: Réponse a Denis O'Brien 257; Monique Dixsaut: Les hypothèses du Parménide: construire des mondes conceptuels possibles 263; John Dillon: Speusippus and the ontological interpretation of the Parmenides 296; Index locorum 313-323.
4. Allen Reginald Edgar, "Participation and predication in Plato's middle dialogues," Philosophical Review 69: 147-164 (1960).
   Reprinted in: R. E. Allen (ed.) - Studies in Plato's metaphysics - London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1965 pp. 43-60 and in: N. D. Smith (ed.) - Plato. Critical assessments - Vol. II: Plato's middle period: metaphysics and epistemology - Lond, Routledge, 1998 pp. 57-71.
5. Ambuel David. On what is not: Eleatic paradox in the Parmenides and the Sophist. In Plato's Parmenides. Proceedings of the Fourth Symposium Platonicum Pragense. Edited by Havlícek Ales and Karfík Filip. Prague: Oikoimené 2005. pp. 200-215
6. Anscombe Gertrude Elizabeth Margareth, "The new theory of forms," Monist 50: 403-420 (1966).
   "In the relatively naive early theory of forms, Plato uses unreflectively such words as "one," "being," "whole," "same," "other"; when he came to reflect on these words and to treat them as signifying forms, he encountered many difficulties -- especially in view of his principle of "self-predication," that the form (being) is itself. An attempt is here made to delineate the "new" theory involved in the "Sophist" and "Parmenides", in two main aspects: participation of one form in another, and negation and incompatibility. A constructable model for these relations of forms is described. "
7. Berti Enrico, "Struttura e significato del Parmenide di Platone," Giornale di Metafisica 26: 497-527 (1971).
   Reprinted in: E. Berti - Studi aristotelici - L'Aquila: Japadre 1975 pp. 297-327
8. Bluck Richard Stanley, "The Parmenides and the 'Third Man'," Classical Quarterly 6: 29-37 (1956).
9. Bluck Richard Stanley, "Forms as standards," Phronesis 2: 115-127 (1957).
10. Brisson Luc. Une nouvelle interprétation du Parménide de Platon. In Platon et l'objet de la science. Edited by Morel Pierre-Marie. Bordeaux: Presses de l'Université de Boredaux 1996. pp. 69-112
11. Brisson Luc, "'Is the World One?' A new interpretation of Plato's Parmenides," Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 22: 1-20 (2002).
12. Brisson Luc. Les quatres dernières séries de déductions dans la seconde partie du Parménide de Platon. In Plato's Parmenides. Proceedings of the Fourth Symposium Platonicum Pragense. Edited by Havlícek Ales and Karfík Filip. Prague: Oikoimené 2005. pp. 216-233
13. Brisson Luc. Réponse a Denis O'Brien. In Plato's Parmenides. Proceedings of the Fourth Symposium Platonicum Pragense. Edited by Havlícek Ales and Karfík Filip. Prague: Oikoimené 2005. pp. 257-262
    Réponse à Le Parménide historique et le Parménide de Platon pp. 234-256.
14. Brumbaugh Robert. Plato on the One. The hypotheses in the Parmenides. New Haven: Yale University Press 1961. pp.
15. Brumbaugh Robert, "The text of Plato's Parmenides," Review of Metaphysics 26: 140-148 (1973).
16. Brumbaugh Robert, "Notes on the history of Plato's text: with the Parmenides as a case study," Paideia: 67-79 (1976).
17. Brumbaugh Robert, "The purposes of Plato's Parmenides," Ancient Philosophy 1: 39-48 (1980).
18. Calogero Guido. Studi sull'eleatismo. Roma: Tipografia del Senato del dott. G. Bardi 1932.
    Second edition with two new appendixes Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 1977
    First edition translated in German as: Studien über den Eleatismus Darmstadt, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1970
19. Cherniss Harold, "Parmenides and the Parmenides of Plato," American Journal of Philology 53: 122-138 (1932).
    Reprinted in: H. Chermiss - Selected papers - edited by Leonardo Tarán - Leiden: Brill 1977 pp. 281-297.
    
    "The antinomies of the Parmenides were composed for the purpose of showing that the Eleatic dialectic of Zeno when applied to the monistic Being of Parmenides produces the same paradoxes as when used against pluralism. It is demonstrated that the second part of the dialogue is formally an elaborate parodia of the poem of Parmenides and metodically a parodia of the logic-chopping of Zeno. By this means the psychological purpose of the dialogue is elucidated, the unity of the dialogue is made evident, and its relationship to the Sophist is established."
20. Chroust Anton Hermann, "The problem of Plato's Parmenides," New Scholasticism (21): 371-418 (1947).
21. Cornford Francis MacDonald. Plato and Parmenides. Parmenides' Way of truth and Plato's Parmenides. London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & co. Ltd 1939.
    Translated, with an introduction and a running commentary by F. M. Cornford.
    Reprinted by Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980
22. Coxon Allan H. The philosophy of Forms. An analytical and historical commentary on Plato's Parmenides. With a new English Translation. Assen: Van Gorcum 1999.
23. Cresswell Max J., "Participation in Plato's Parmenides," Southern Journal of Philosophy 13: 163-171 (1975).
24. Curd Patricia, "Parmenidean clues in the search for the Sophist," History of Philosophy Quarterly 5: 307-320 (1988).
    "The paper challenges the view that in both the "Parmenides" and the "Sophist" Plato suffers from confusion about identity and predication. I claim that the arguments of part II of the "Parmenides" are not infected with this confusion. Further, I argue that part II of the "Parmenides" explores and investigates ideas (especially about being and not-being) that are crucial to the solution of the problem of not-being in the "Sophist" (a solution that does not depend on distinguishing identity and predicative senses of 'to be')."
25. Dillon John. Speusippus and the ontological interpretation of the Parmenides. In Plato's Parmenides. Proceedings of the Fourth Symposium Platonicum Pragense. Edited by Havlícek Ales and Karfík Filip. Prague: Oikoimené 2005. pp. 296-311
26. Dixsaut Monique. Les hypothèses du Parménide: construire des mondes conceptuels possibles. In Plato's Parmenides. Proceedings of the Fourth Symposium Platonicum Pragense. Edited by Havlícek Ales and Karfík Filip. Prague: Oikoimené 2005. pp. 263-295
27. Fronterotta Francesco. Guida alla lettura del Parmenide di Platone. Bari: Laterza 1998.
28. Fronterotta Francesco. Methexis. La teoria platonica delle idee e la partecipazione delle cose empiriche. Dai dialoghi giovanili al Parmenide. Pisa : Scuola Normale Superiore 2001.
29. Fronterotta Francesco. Méthexis et Chôrismos dans l'intérprétation du Parménide de Platon. In Plato's Parmenides. Proceedings of the Fourth Symposium Platonicum Pragense. Edited by Havlícek Ales and Karfík Filip. Prague: Oikoimené 2005. pp. 88-124
30. Gadamer Hans-Georg, "Der platonische Parmenides und seine Nachwirkung," Archivio di Filosofia 51: 39-51 (1983).
    Translated in Italian as: Il Parmenide platonico e la sua influenza in: Hans Georg-Gadamer - Studi platonici - Casale Monferrato, Marietti 1984, vol. II pp. 265-278
31. Gardeya Peter. Platons Parmenides. Interpretation und Bibliographie. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 1991.
32. Gerson LLoyd P., "Dialectic and forms in Part One of Plato's Parmenides," Apeiron 15: 19-28 (1981).
33. Gerson LLoyd P. Plato's development and the development of the Theory of Forms. In Plato's forms: varieties of interpretation. Edited by Welton William. Lanham: Lexington Books 2002. pp. 85-110
34. Gourinat Jean-Baptiste. La dialectique des hypothèses contraires dans le Parménide de Platon. In La philosophie de Platon. Edited by Fattal Michel. Paris: L'Harmattan 2002. pp. 233-261
35. Graeser Andreas. Prolegomena zu einer Interpretation des zweiten Teils des Platonischen Parmenides . Bern: P. Haupt 1999.
36. Hägler Rudolf-Peter. Platons Parmenides: Probleme Der Interpretation. Berlin : Walter de Gruyter 1983.
37. Jyiuan Yu, "On Plato's theory of the "Metheksis" of Ideas," Philosophical Inquiry: 25-37 (1991).
38. Kim Sung-Jin. Die Widerspruch und das Urteil in Platons Parmenides. Untersuchungen zur platonischen Dialektik. New York: Peter Lang 1989.
39. Lynch William. An approach to the metaphysics of Plato through the Parmenides. Washington: Georgetown University Press 1959.
    Second edition: Westport, Greenwood Press 1969
40. Malatesta Michele, "One instance of tollendo tollens in Plato's Parmenides 127e1-7," Metalogicon 10: 33-40 (1997).
41. Malcolm John, "Semantics and self-predication in Plato," Phronesis.A Journal for Ancient Philosophy 26: 286-294 (1981).
42. Mates Benson, "Identity and predication in Plato," Phronesis.A Journal for Ancient Philosophy 24: 211-229 (1979).
    Reprinted in: S. Knuuttila and J. Hintikka - The logic of Being - Dordrecht: Reidel 1986 pp.29-47
43. McCabe Mary Margaret. Unity in the Parmenides: the unity of the Parmenides . In Form and argument in late Plato. Edited by Gill Christopher and McCabe Mary Margaret. Oxford: Oxford University Press 1996. pp. 5-48
44. Meinwald Constance. Plato's Parmenides. Oxford: Oxford University Press 1991.
45. Migliori Maurizio. Dialettica e verità. Commentario filosofico al Parmenide di Platone. Milano: Vita e Pensiero 1990.
46. Miller Mitchell. Plato's Parmenides. The conversion of the soul. Princeton: Princeton University Press 1986.
47. Miller Mitchell, "Unwritten teachings" in the Parmenides," Review of Metaphysics 48: 591-633 (1995).
48. Moravcsik Julius. Forms and dialectic in the second half of the Parmenides. In Language and Logos. Studies in ancient Greek philosophy presented to G. E. L. Owen. Edited by Schofield Malcolm and Nussbaum Martha. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1982. pp. 135-154
49. Moravcsik Julius. Plato and Platonism: Plato's conception of appearance and reality in ontology, epistemology, and ethics, and its modern echoes.1992.
    See in particular the Chapter 4: The Parmenides: Forms and Participation reconsidered pp. 129-167
50. Nadal J., "Rémarques sur le Parménide de Platon et la pensée du non-être," Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale 89: 11-32 (1984).
51. Nehamas Alexander, "Self-predication and Plato's Theory of Forms," American Philosophical Quarterly 16: 93-103 (1979).
    Reprinted in: A. Nehamas - Virtues of authenticity. Essays on Plato and Socrates - Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1999, pp. 176-195
52. Niewohner Friedrich Wilhelm. Dialog und Dialektik in Platons Parmenides: Untersuchungen zur sogennanten platonischen 'Esoterik'. Meisenheim am Glan: A. Hain 1971.
53. O'Brien Denis. Le Parménide historique et le Parménide de Platon. In Plato's Parmenides. Proceedings of the Fourth Symposium Platonicum Pragense. Edited by Havlícek Ales and Karfík Filip. Prague: Oikoimené 2005. pp. 234-256
54. Paci Enzo. Il significato del Parmenide nella filosofia di Platone. Milano: Principato 1938.
    Second edition: Milano, Bompiani 1988
55. Peterson Sandra, "A reasonable self-predication premise for the Third Man Argument," Philosophical Review 82: 451-470 (1973).
    Reprinted in: Nicholas D. Smith (ed.) - Plato. Critical assessments - New York, Routledge, 1998, vol. IV pp. 51-66
56. Peterson Sandra, "A correction," Philosophical Review 82: 96 (1975).
    Reprinted in: Nicholas D. Smith (ed.) - Plato. Critical assessments - New York, Routledge, 1998, vol. IV pp. 67-68
57. Peterson Sandra, "New rounds of the exercise of Plato's Parmenides," Modern Schoolman: 245-278 (2003).
58. Peterson Sandra. The Parmenides. In The Oxford Handbook of Plato. Edited by Fine Gail. New York: Oxford University Press 2008. pp. 383-410
    "Plato's Parmenides contrasts with Plato's other works in several ways. For example, Socrates is depicted as "very young" (127c5), perhaps fifteen or perhaps nineteen. Parmenides questions Socrates, who contradicts himself; in other dialogues of question and answer, Socrates typically questions others, who contradict themselves. Parmenides refutes Socrates on the topic of forms, items such as justice itself and good itself, while the older Socrates of other dialogues presents forms as central to philosophy; the dialogue thus raises the question whether its criticism of forms signals Plato's revision of views expressed in previous writings. The Parmenides is the only dialogue in which forms are the main topic. The dialogue's second part, 137c-166c, is the longest passage of unrelenting argument in Plato's writings. Its arguments are his most puzzling."
59. Rickless Samuel, "How Parmenides saved the Theory of Forms," Philosophical Review 107: 501-554 (1998).
60. Rickless Samuel C. Plato's Forms in transition. A reading of the Parmenides. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2007.
61. Rist John, "The Parmenides again," Phoenix 16: 1-14 (1962).
    About Runciman (1959)
62. Robinson Richard. Plato's earlier dialectic. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1953.
    Second edition (first edition 1941).
    See the chapter XIII: Hypothesis in the Parmenides pp. 223-280, previously published in Classical Philology (1942).
63. Runciman Walter Garrison, "Plato's Parmenides," Classical Philology 64: 89-120 (1959).
    Reprinted in: R. E. Allen - Studies in Plato's metaphysics - London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1965 pp. 149-184.
64. Ryle Gilbert, "Plato's Parmenides," Mind 48: 129-151 (1939).
    Reprinted in: R. E. Allen, Studies in Plato's metaphysics, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1965 pp. 97-147, and in G. Ryle, Collected Papers. Volume I. Critical Essays, London, Hutchison 1971 (reprint: New York, Routledge, 2009) as Essay I pp. 1-44.
65. Sayre Kenneth. Plato's late ontology: a riddle resolved. Princeton: Princeton University Press 1983.
66. Schofield Malcolm. Likeness and likenesses in Parmenides. In Form and argument in late Plato. Edited by Gill Christopher and McCabe Mary Margaret. Oxford: Oxford University Press 1996. pp. 49-78
67. Scolnicov Samuel, "Things worth wondering at: a response to Sandra Peterson," Modern Schoolman: 279-287 (2003).
68. Scolnicov Samuel. The conditions of knowledge in Plato's Parmenides. In Plato's Parmenides. Proceedings of the Fourth Symposium Platonicum Pragense. Edited by Havlícek Ales and Karfík Filip. Prague: Oikoimené 2005. pp. 165-180
69. Sellars Wilfrid, "Vlastos and the Third Man," Philosophical Review 64: 405-437 (1955).
70. Silverman Allan. The dialectic of essence: a study of Plato's metaphysics. Princeton: Princeton University Press 2002.
71. Steel Carlos. Proclus comme témoin du texte du Parménide. In Tradition et traduction. Les textes philosophiques et scientifiques grecs au Moyen Age latin. Hommage à Fernand Bossier. Edited by Beyers Rita et al. Leuven: Leuven University Press 1999. pp. 281-303
72. Steel Carlos. Une histoire de l'interpretation du Parménide dans l'antiquité. In Il Parmenide di platone e la sua tradizione. Edited by Barbanti Maria and Romano Francesco. Catania: CUECM 2002. pp. 11-40
73. Sternfeld Robert and Zyskind Harold. Meaning, relation and existence in Plato's Parmenides. The logic of relational realism. New York: Peter Lang 1987.
74. Sweeney Leo, "Participation in Plato's Dialogues: Pahedo, Parmenides, Sophist, Timaeus," New Scholasticism 62: 125-149 (1988).
    "The aim of this paper is to give a synthetic and overview interpretation of what Plato intends by "participation" in several dialogues. "Phaedo", 100 sqq.: participation is the effect of the Forms' presence in things and of their having something in common. "Parmenides", 248-249: participation consists of things "being-caused-as-images-of Forms," where "cause" will in later dialogues be disclosed to be the Forms as models and goals and intellects as agents. "Sophist", 219 sqq. and 266a sqq.: by productive art intelligent agents -- human and divine -- cause products to participate through contemplation of Forms as models. "Timaeus", 26b-30d and 47e sqq.: working with the receptacle as the participant underlying all participation, the divine craftsman uses the Forms as models and telic causes in producing individual souls and bodies, together with the entire visible universe itself. "Symposium", 210e-211b, "Phaedo", 79d and "Republic", vi, 511d suggest that Plato's philosophy is not a phenomenology."
75. Tai-Bum Yang. Das Problem des Nichtseienden in Platons Parmenides. Zur neuen Interpretation des platonischen Dialogs Parmenides. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2008.
76. Trabattoni Franco, "Una nuova interpretazione del Parmenide di Platone," Elenchos 14: 65-82 (1993).
77. Turnbull Robert G. The Parmenides and Plato's late philosophy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press 1998.
    Translation of and commentary on the Parmenides with interpretative chapters on th Thimaeus, the Theatetus, the Sophist, and the Philebus
78. Vlastos Gregory, "Self-predication and self-participation in Plato's later period," Philosophical Review 78: 74-78 (1969).
    Reprinted in: G. Vlastos - Platonic studies - Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1973 pp. 335-341.
79. Wahl Jean. Étude sur le Parménide de Platon. Paris: F. Rieder et C.ie 1926.
    Fourth edition Paris: Vrin 1951
80. Wundt Max. Platons Parmenides. Berlin: Verlag von W, Kohlhammer 1935.
81. Zekl Hans Gûnther. Der Parmenides. Untersuchungen über innere Einheit, Zielsetzung und begriffliches Verfahren eines platonischen Dialogs. Marburg: Elwert 1971.
82. Ziermann Christoph. Platons negative Dialektik. Eine Untersuchung der Dialoge "Sophistes" und "Parmenides". Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2004.

 

 

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