Plato on Knowledge and Reality

A complete and unified account of Plato’s epistemology … scholarly, historically sensitive, and philosophically sophisticated. Above all it is sensible… . White’s strength is that he places Plato’s preoccupation in careful historical perspective, without belittling the intrinsic difficulties of the problems he tackled… . White’s project is to find a continuous argument running through Plato’s various attacks on epistemological problems. No summary can do justice to his remarkable success. –Ronald B. De Sousa, University of Toronto, in Phoenix