Plato on Metaphors and Models

Pender, Elizabeth

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“…Making models of a dreamlike phenomenon, according to Plato, can improve our knowledge or disclose a more thorough exploration of our ignorance of its nature (see Pender 2003). This is exactly what I claim for geographical models of inner experience.…”

Section: Landscapes Of Consciousness As Landscapes Of Actionmentioning

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Affording innerscapes: Dreams, introspective imagery and the narrative exploration of personal geographies

Bernini

2018

Frontiers of Narrative Studies

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The essay presents an interdisciplinary theory of what it will call “innerscapes”: artefactual representations of the mind as a spatially extended world. By bringing examples of innerscapes from literature (Kafka’s short story The Bridge), radio plays (Samuel Beckett’s Embers), and a creative documentary about auditory-verbal hallucinations (a voice-hearer’s short film, Adam + 1), it suggests that these spatial renditions of the mind are constructed by transforming the quasi-perceptual elements of inner experience into affording ecologies. In so doing, they enable an enactive exploration of inner worlds as navigable environments. The resulting storyworlds display features that resemble the logic and ontology of dreams. Cognitive research on dreams and cartographical studies of the personal geographies of dreamscapes will thus inform the understanding of what innerscapes are, do and can do if used, as the essay argues they should be, as enhancing devices for what Jesse Butler has called ‘extended introspection” (2013: 95).

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Section: Landscapes Of Consciousness As Landscapes Of Actionmentioning

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Affording innerscapes: Dreams, introspective imagery and the narrative exploration of personal geographies

Bernini

2018

Frontiers of Narrative Studies

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“… Tecusan , 69, finds that “Images have a didactic function.” Pender claims they are not only didactic, but also heuristic. Cf.…”

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The State of the Question in the Study of Plato: Twenty Year Update

Press¹

2018

The Southern J of Philosophy

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This article updates "The State of the Question in the Study of Plato" (Southern Journal of Philosophy, 1996) based on research covering the years from 1995-2015. Its three major parts examine:(1) how the mid-twentieth-century consensus has fared, (2) whether the new trends identified in that article have continued, and (3) identify trends either new or missed in the original article. On the whole, it shows the continuing decline of dogmatic and nondramatic Plato interpretation and the expansion and ramification of the more literary, dramatic, and nondogmatic "new Platonism." What was a growing insurgency twenty years ago can now be described as a, if not the, dominant approach.

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“… Bedu-Addo (1983: 240) emphasised the didactic role of sensible diagrams in the Meno's recollection; moreover, he argues that this anticipates the way sensible particulars function as images of the forms in the Phaedo.25 Cf. Lane (1998) 64-5.26 The account of paradeigmata is discussed by, e.g.,Miller (2004) 58-9 andPender (2003) 63-72.…”

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Meno and the Slave

Nathan

2022

Antichthon

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This paper argues that the slave demonstration in Plato's Meno contains a carefully-wrought analogy of Meno's dialectic which can guide our understanding of the dialogue. This analogy exposes and diagnoses Meno's failings as a student who is unwilling to engage in the learning process but simply wants to be spoon-fed information. This, in turn, reveals the way Plato wants us to interact with his text: insofar as the author makes his point implicitly and allusively, we are aptly required to puzzle our way through the text to unravel the meaning. We must actively engage with the text. The Meno, thus, exemplifies its own didactic message. In this way, I hope to offer a meaningful interpretation of a significant passage in Plato as well as provide a case study of how he can marshal the literary resources at his disposal towards his philosophical ends.

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Plato on Metaphors and Models

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Affording innerscapes: Dreams, introspective imagery and the narrative exploration of personal geographies

Affording innerscapes: Dreams, introspective imagery and the narrative exploration of personal geographies

The State of the Question in the Study of Plato: Twenty Year Update

Meno and the Slave

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