This volume in the Oxford Readings in Philosophy looks at Plato's metaphysics and epistemology. It includes essays on Socratic method, the theory of forms, knowledge and belief, being and not-being, and the philosophy of language. Introduction 1(36) Gail Fine The Socratic Elenchus 36(28) Gregory Vlastos Socrates Disavowal of Knowledge 64(29) Gregory Vlastos Platonic Recollection 93(32) Dominic Scott Language and Reality in Plato's Cratylus 125(18) J. L. Ackrill The Theory of Forms 143(28) T. H. Irwin Plato on the Imperfection of the Sensible World 171(21) Alexander Nehamas Separation and Immanence in Plato's Theory of Forms 192(23) Daniel T. Devereux Knowledge and Belief in Republic 5--7 215(32) Gail Fine The Form of the Good in Plato's Republic 247(28) Gerasimos Santas The Logic of the Third Man 275(23) S. Marc Cohen Notes on Ryle's Plato 298(22) G. E. L. Owen Knowledge is Perception: Theaetetus 151D--184A 320(35) M. F. Burnyeat Plato on Sense-Perception and Knowledge (Theaetetus 184--186) 355(22) John M. Cooper Observations on Perception in Plato's Later Dialogues 377(7) Michael Frede Identity Mistakes: Plato and the Logical Atomists 384(13) John McDowell The Double Explanation in the Timaeus 397(19) Steven K. Strange Plato on Not-Being 416(39) G. E. L. Owen Being in the Sophist: A Syntactical Enquiry 455(24) Lesley Brown Notes on the Contributors 479(2) Selected Bibliography 481(14) Index of Names 495