One book, the whole universe
Subtitle: Plato's Timaeus today
By: edited by Richard D. Mohr and Barbara M. Sattler
Publisher: Parmenides Pub.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Las Vegas
Language: eng
Number of pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9781930972322; 9781930972612
Notes: Chiefly derived from papers presented at a conference held Sept. 13-16, 2007 at the University of Illinois (Urbana).

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Plato's cosmic manual : introduction, reader's guide, and acknowledgments  -- Richard D. Mohr; title: Plato's Timaeus : some resonances in modern physics and cosmology  -- Anthony J. Leggett; title: Cosmic craftsmanship in Plato and Stoicism  -- Anthony A. Long; title: Philosopher kings and craftsman-gods  -- Allan Silverman; title: Place of cosmology in Plato's later dialogues  -- Charles H. Kahn; title: Maker or father? : the demiurge from Plutarch to Plotinus  -- Matthias Vorwerk; title: Plato on (just about) everything : some observations on the Timaeus and other dialogues  -- Thomas M. Robinson; title: Visualizing Platonic space  -- Donald Zeyl; title: Receptacle and the primary bodies : something from nothing?  -- Verity Harte; title: Timaeus and the critique of presocratic vortices  -- Stephen Menn; title: What's the matter? : some neo-Platonist answers  -- Ian Mueller; title: Derrida's Khôra, or Unnaming the Timaean receptacle  -- Zina Giannopoulou; title: Should Aristotle have recognized final causes in Plato's Timaeus?  -- Thomas K. Johansen; title: Aristotle on Plato on weight  -- Alan Code; title: What makes a myth eikôs? : remarks inspired by Myles Burnyeat's Eikôs mythos  -- Gábor Betegh; title: Epistemological section (29b-d) of the proem in Timaeus' speech : M. F. Burnyeat on eikôs mythos, and comparison with Xenophanes B34 and B35  -- Alexander P. D. Mourelatos; title: Time for learning and for counting : Egyptians, Greeks, and empirical processes in Plato's Timaeus  -- Barbara M. Sattler; title: Narrative orders in the Timaeus and Critias  -- Kathryn A. Morgan; title: Timaeus in tinseltown : Atlantis in film  -- Jon Solomon; title: Atlantis effect : the lost origins of architecture  -- Anthony Vidler; title: Plato's Timaeus and the aesthetics of "animate form"  -- Ann Bergren; title: Time and change in an eternal universe -- Sean M. Carroll.