Plato, diagrammatic reasoning and mental models / Susanna Saracco.
Saracco, Susanna, author.
2023
B398.L85 S27 2023
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Title Plato, diagrammatic reasoning and mental models / Susanna Saracco.
Author Saracco, Susanna, author.
ISBN 9783031276583 (electronic bk.)
3031276582 (electronic bk.)
9783031276576
3031276574
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27658-3
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer Nature Switzerland AG, [2023]
Copyright ©2023
Language English
Description 1 online resource (vii, 91 pages) : illustrations.
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-27658-3 doi
Call Number B398.L85 S27 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification 184
Summary This book analyses the role of diagrammatic reasoning in Plato's philosophy: the readers will realize that Plato, describing the stages of human cognitive development using a diagram, poses a logic problem to stimulate the general reasoning abilities of his readers. Following the examination of mental models in this book, the readers will reflect on what inferences can be useful to approach this kind of logic problem. Plato calls for a collaboration between writer and readers. In this book the readers will examine the connection between diagrams and discovery, realizing the important epistemic role of visualization. They will recognize the crucial role that diagrams play in problem solving. The logic problem elaborated by Plato is addressed considering the epistemic function of mental models. These models introduce to an advanced stage of cognitive development, in which reasoning uses in its investigations a higher-level of mathematical complexity, represented by structuralism. Susanna Saracco is a post-doctoral researcher, having received her PhD in philosophy from the University of Sydney, Australia. She is the author of the book Plato and Intellectual Development. Her pieces have been published, among others, in Plato Journal, Philosophia: Philosophical Quarterly of Israel and Metaphilosophy.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed August 10, 2023).
Series Palgrave pivot.
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Intro
Contents
List of Figures
1: Introduction
References
Texts and Translations
Recent Works
2: The Collaboration Between Writer and Reader
2.1 Plato and the Rational Engagement of His Readers
2.2 Rational Engagement and Higher-Order Pedagogy
2.3 Plato's Higher-Order Pedagogy: My Response
References
Texts and Translations
Recent Works
3: Visual Thinking
3.1 Visual Thinking in the Meno
3.2 Meno's Slave and Diagrams
References
Text and Translation
Recent Works
4: Diagrammatic Reasoning
4.1 Diagram as Heuristic Device

4.1.1 Diagrams and Problem Solving
4.2 Heterogeneous Reasoning
4.2.1 Hyperproof
References
Text and Translation
Recent Works
5: Mental Models
5.1 Plato's Forms as Mediators
5.1.1 The Forms and Mental Models
References
Texts and Translations
Recent Works
6: Theoretical Adulthood and Structuralism
6.1 Number Lines and Structures
6.1.1 Structuralism and Plato2
6.1.1.1 Epistemology in Ante Rem Structuralism: The Access Problem
References
Texts and Translations
Recent Works
Index

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