CONTENTS -- PREFACE TO THE REVISED AND EXPANDED EDITION (2005) -- FROM THE ORIGINAL PREFACE (1985) -- INTRODUCTION: THEMES AND THESES (1985) -- PART ONE THE WORKS OF REASON -- Divinity, Cognition, and Ontology: The Unique World Argument -- Plato on Time and Eternity -- PART TWO THE EFFECTS OF NECESSITY -- Image, Flux, and Space in the Timaeus -- The Gold Analogy in the Timaeus -- Remarks on the Stereometric Nature and Status of the Primary Bodies in the Timaeus -- The Mechanism of Flux in the Timaeus -- PART THREE THE OTHER COSMOLOGICAL WRITINGS -- Disorderly Motion in the Statesman -- The Sources of Evil Problem and the Principle of Motion Doctrine in the Phaedrus and Laws X -- The World-Soul in the Platonic Cosmology -- The Relation of Reason to Soul in the Platonic Cosmology: Sophist 248e-249d -- The Platonic Theodicy: Laws X, 899-905 -- RELATED ESSAYS ON PLATO'S METAPHYSICS -- Family Resemblance, Platonism, Universals -- The Formation of the Cosmos in the Statesman Myth -- The Divided Line and the Doctrine of Recollection in Plato -- The Number Theory in Plato's Republic VII and Philebus -- EXTENSIONS (2005) -- BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS CITED -- INDEX OF PLATONIC PASSAGES CITED -- AUTHOR INDEX.