Socrates II

Socrates II Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers Table of Contents (final)

Volume I

Principles of Selection

General Introduction on Socrates

Introduction to volume I

Part 1. The "Socratic Problem"

1. Debra Nails, ‘Problems with Vlastos’s Platonic Developmentalism’, Ancient Philosophy 13, 1993,

273-291.

2. Donald Morrison, ‘On the Alleged Historical Reliability of Plato’s Apology’, Archiv für Geschichte

der Philosophie 82, 2000, 235-265

3. Terry Penner, ‘The Historical Socrates and Plato’s Early Dialogues: Some Philosophical Questions’, in Julia Annas and Christopher Rowe (eds), New Perspectives on Plato, Modern and Ancient (Center for Hellenic Studies, 2002), pp. 189-212.
4. Thomas Brickhouse and Nicholas Smith, ‘Apology for Socratic Studies’, Polis 20, 2003, 108-127.
5. William Prior, ‘Socrates Metaphysician’, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 27, 2004, 1-14.
6. David Wolfsdorf, ‘Interpreting Plato’s Early Dialogues’, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy

27, 2004, 15-40.

7. Catherine Osborne, ‘Socrates in the Platonic Dialogues’, Philosophical Investigations 29, 2006,

1-21.

8. Lloyd Gerson, ‘The Myth of Plato’s Socratic Period’, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 96,

2014, 403-430.

Part 2. Socratic Irony

9. Gregory Vlastos, ‘Socratic Irony’, Classical Quarterly 37, 1987, 79-96.
10. Paula Gottlieb, ‘The Complexity of Socratic Irony: A Note on Professor Vlastos’ Account’,

Classical Quarterly 42, 1992, 278-279

11. Jill Gordon, ‘Against Vlastos on Complex Irony’, Classical Quarterly 46, 1996, 131-137.
12. Alexander Nehamas, ‘Socratic Irony: Character and Interlocutors’, in The Art of Living (Berkeley

and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1998), pp. 46-69.

13. Iakovos Vasiliou, ‘Conditional Irony in the Socratic Dialogues’, Classical Quarterly 49, 1999,

456-472.

14. Melissa Lane, ‘The Evolution of Eironeia in Classical Greek Texts: Why Socratic Eironeia is Not Irony’, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 31, 2006, 49-83.
15. G. R. F. Ferrari, ‘Socratic Irony as Pretence’, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 34, 2008, 1-33.

Volume II: Issues Arising from the Trial of Socrates

Introduction to volume II

Part 3. The Trial of Socrates

16. Josiah Ober, ‘Gadfly on Trial: Socrates as Citizen and Social Critic’, in C. Blackwell (ed.), Demos:

Classical Athenian Democracy, a publication of The Stoa: A Consortium

for Electronic Publication in the Humanities [www.stoa.org], 2003.

17. Paul Cartledge, ‘The Trial of Socrates, 399 BCE’, in Ancient Greek Political Thought in Practice

(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009) pp. 76-90 .

18. Myles Burnyeat, ‘The Impiety of Socrates’, Ancient Philosophy 17, 1997, 1-12.
19. Anna Lӓnnstrӧm, ‘Socrates’ Moral Impiety and its Role at the Trial: A Reading of Euthyphro 6a’,

Polis 30, 2013, 30-48.

4. Socrates and Greek Religion

20. Scott Calef, ‘Piety and the Unity of Virtue in Euthyphro 11e-14c’, Oxford Studies in Ancient

Philosophy 13, 1995, 1-26.

21. Mark McPherran, ‘Piety, Justice and the Unity of Virtue’, Journal of the History of Philosophy

38, 2000, 299-328.

22. Øyvind Rabbås, ‘Piety as a Virtue in the Euthyphro’, Ancient Philosophy 25, 2005, 291-318.
23. Mark McPherran, ‘Socrates on Teleological and Moral Theology’, Ancient Philosophy 14, 1994,

245-262.

Part 5. Socrates and the Athenian State

24. Mark Anderson, ‘Socrates as Hoplite’, Ancient Philosophy 25, 2005, 273-289.
25. Paul Woodruff, ‘Socrates on Political Courage’, Ancient Philosophy 27, 2007, 289-302.

The Crito

26. Verity Harte, ‘Conflicting Values in Plato’s Crito’, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 81, 1999,

117-147.

27. Thomas C. Brickhouse and Nicholas D. Smith, ‘Persuade or Obey’, Harvard Review of Philosophy 19, 2013, 69-83.
28. Micah Lott, ‘Because I Said So: Practical Authority in Plato’s Crito’, Polis: The Journal of Ancient

Political Thought 32, 2015, 3-31.

Part 6. Socrates and the Sophists

29. Stephen Everson, ‘The Incoherence of Thrasymachus’, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 16,

1998, 99-131.

30. Devin Stauffer, ‘Socrates and Callicles: A Reading of Plato’s Gorgias’, The Review of Politics 64, 2002, 627-657.
31. Franco Trivigno, ‘The Moral and Literary Character of Hippias in Plato’s Hippias Major’, Oxford

Studies in Ancient Philosophy 50, 2016, 31-65.

Volume III: Method and Epistemology

Introduction to volume III

Part 7. Introduction

32. Robert Nozick, ‘Socratic Puzzles’, Phronesis 40, 2, 1995, 143-155.
33. Angela M. Smith, ‘Knowledge and Expertise in the Early Platonic Dialogues’, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 80, 1998, 129-161)
34. Paul Woodruff, ‘Socrates and the Irrational’, in Nicholas D. Smith and Paul B. Woodruff (eds),

Reason and Religion in Socratic Philosophy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), pp. 130-150.

Part 8. Elenchus

35. Don Adams, ‘Elenchos and Evidence’, Ancient Philosophy 18, 1998, 287-308.
36. Hugh Benson, ‘Problems with Socratic Method’, in Gary Alan Scott (ed.), Does Socrates Have a

Method? Rethinking the Elenchus in Plato’s Dialogues and Beyond (University Park,

Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002), pp. 101-113.

37. Alejandro Santana, ‘Constructivism and the Problem of the Socratic Elenchos’, Ancient Philosophy 27, 2007, 251-267.

Part 9. Definition

38. David Wolfsdorf, ‘Socrates' Pursuit of Definitions’, Phronesis 48, 2003, 271-312.

Michael N. Forster, ‘Socrates’ Demand for Definitions’, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 31,

2006, 1-47.

　

Part 10. Induction

39. Mark McPherran, ‘Socratic Epagōgē and Socratic Induction’, Journal of the History of Philosophy

45, 2007, 347-364.

　

Part 11. Epistemology

40. Iakovos Vasiliou, ‘Socratic Principles, Socratic Knowledge’, Philosophical Inquiry: Philosophical

Quarterly 21, 1999, 93-113.

41. Michael N. Forster, ‘Socrates’ Profession of Ignorance’, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 32,

2007, 1-35.

42. Gail Fine, ‘Does Socrates Claim to Know that he Knows Nothing?’, Oxford Studies in Ancient

Philosophy 35, 2008, 49-88.

43. Scott J. Senn, ‘Ignorance or Irony in Plato’s Socrates?: A Look Beyond Avowals and Disavowals

of Knowledge’, The Plato Journal 13, 2013, 77-108.

12. Deliberation

44. Eugenio Benitez, ‘Deliberation and Moral Expertise in Plato’s Crito’, Apeiron 29, 1996, 21-47.
45. Hugh Benson, ‘What Should Euthyphro Do?’, History of Philosophy Quarterly 30, 2013, 115-

146.

Volume IV: Socratic Moral Psychology

Introduction to Volume IV

Part 13. Reason and Emotion

46. Terence Irwin, ‘The Protagoras’, in Plato’s Ethics’, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), pp. 78-94.
47. Terence Irwin, ‘Implications of the Gorgias’, in Plato’s Ethics’, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), pp. 116-126.
48. Daniel Devereux, ‘Socrates’ Kantian Conception of Virtue’, Journal of the History of Philosophy 33, 1995, 381-408.
49. Terry Penner, ‘Socrates on the Strength of Knowledge: Protagoras 351B-357E’, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 79, 1997, 117-149.
50. Raphael Woolf, ‘Callicles and Socrates: Psychic (Dis)harmony in the Gorgias’, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 18, 2000, 1-40.
51. Heda Segvic, ‘No One Errs Willingly: The Meaning of Socratic Intellectualism’, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 19, 2000, 1-45.
52. Gabriela Roxana Carone, ‘Calculating Machines or Leaky Jars? The Moral Psychology of Plato’s Gorgias’, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 26, 2004, 55-96.
53. Rachel Singpurwalla, ‘Reasoning with the Irrational: Moral Psychology in the Protagoras’, Ancient Philosophy 26, 2006, 243-258.
54. Jessica Moss, ‘The Doctor and the Pastry Chef: Pleasure and Persuasion in Plato’s Gorgias’, Ancient Philosophy 17, 2007, 229-249.
55. Thomas Brickhouse and Nicholas Smith, ‘Socrates on the Emotions’, The Plato Journal 15, 2015, 9-28.
56. Thomas Blackson, ‘Two Interpretations of Socratic Intellectualism’, Ancient Philosophy 35, 2015, 23-39.

Part 14. Happiness

57. Gerasimos Santas, ‘Socratic Goods and Socratic Happiness’, Apeiron 26, 1993, 26-52.
58. Russell E. Jones, ‘Felix Socrates?’, Philosophia (Athens) 43, 2013, 77-98.
59. Nicholas D. Smith, ‘Socrates on the Human Condition’, Ancient Philosophy 36, 1, 2016, 81-95.

Biography

Willaim Prior is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Santa Clara University, California, USA