...Jyl Gentzler CROSS-EXAMINING SOCRATES: A DEFENSE OF THE INTERLOCUTORS IN PLATO'S EARLY DIALOGUES. By John Beversluis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 416 Cornell University 2001 BOOK REVIEWS The Philosophical Review, Vol...

...Christine Thomas SOCRATIC WISDOM: THE MODEL OF KNOWLEDGE IN PLATO'S EARLY DIALOGUES. By Hugh H. Benson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. ix, 292. Cornell University 2001 BOOK REVIEWS than the lofty goals that he announces.1 But if we reject...

..., Dialogue, and Dialec- tic—and each part consists of eight chapters of ten to fifteen pages. These chapters offer the beginner a well-chosen set of topics. The first part contains, for instance, chapters on dramatic settings, the "portrait frames" of dialogues, and Socrates as "hero" (hêrôs); the second...

...Douglas M. Jesseph Tom Stoneham, Berkeley's World: An Examination of the Three Dialogues. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xviii, 300. Cornell University 2004 Berkeley, George. 1948- 1957 . The Works of George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne . 9 vols. Edited by. A. A. Luce...

... of this journal, I will focus on it. The central concept in Walton s framework-his new dialectic-is that of a dialogue. A dialogue type is an abstract, idealized normative model of a goal- directed conversation between two (or more) agents. Although dialogues are normative models, they can be hooked...

... dependence relations between multiple theses defended within a single dialogue or sometimes across several dialogues. While Kamtekar's interpretive approach often makes for dense reading, it also furnishes her with exciting new argumentative resources. In what follows, I will comment on Kamtekar's...

... references never contribute anything to the interpretation of the dialogue making the backward reference. It is hard to see a good reason for accepting (1). And if, like Clay, we have a broad conception of the interpretation of a dialogue that includes its literary features as well as a logical...

... of it are vulnerable and which can be defended, which parts allow for further consideration, and why. It follows that Plato's use of the dialogue form is highly significant: his works are not mere repositories of argument or archives of obscurely expressed doctrine. Instead, Plato takes reflection on arguments...

... dialogue.2 Deeply def- 484 SELFLESSNESS AND RESPONSIBILITY FOR SELF erential characters lack a disposition to hold themselves answerable to external, critical perspectives such as our own. The disposition to answer for oneself, or to be “self-representing...

...Kenneth P. Winkler The First Dialogue looms especially large in Dicker's interpretation of Berkeley; the chapter devoted to it is by far the longest in the book. Only in the First Dialogue, Dicker argues, does Berkeley defend a “foundational premise” that he takes for granted in the opening...

... that dialogue a focus on ethical and political theory. It also, however, operates on the assumption that the Laws is intercon- nected, more or less systematically, with other later dialogues. The Republic con- tains its own metaphysical, epistemological, and psychological theories, which provide support...

... emphasizes the significance of “staging the action at the home of the metic Cephalus,” who was dedicated to money making and proved unfit for the pursuit for knowledge (213–15). This is mis- taken. The dialogue takes place at the home of Cephalus’s son, Polemarchus (Rep. 1.328b). As Debra Nails reports...

... possess both skills of expressing herself, so she can contribute to the dialogue, and the interpretative skills required for understanding those who may reply to her. These skills are enmeshed with each other, insofar as a proper appreciation of the significance of what one is saying presupposes...

... Recast—His Later Ethics and Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xi, 643. Plato’s Utopia Recast is an exceptionally rich and ambitious book. Its central text is the Laws, and it inherits from that dialogue a focus on ethical and political theory. It also, however, operates...

... discussion 123 BOOK REKEWS brings outjust how many strands there are in the idea, how much it seems to change from one dialogue to another, and how little help Plato gives us in sorting it all out. Annas also argues that homoi6sis the6...

... for the agent” (184). So Socrates must “obfuscate” and “for Glaucon's sake” (185). If one wonders why Plato would write a dialogue in which the interlocutors he chooses for Socrates allow only for an account and defense of justice that completely distorts its nature, Weiss not only has no answer but does...

... bypasses that problem, since his interest focuses on the Soc- rates who first practiced living as an art, a figure whom we find in Plato s Socratic dialogues, who is to all effects and purposes . . . a fictional char- acter (7) . For Nehamas the real Socratic problem is not the relation of Plato s...

...- sus into four distinct hypotheses, each with two deductions concerning unity. Though this third section represents the bulk of the dialogue, scholars have focused on the comparatively accessible, if incendiary, second section, where Plato’s Forms come in for attack. Harte, by contrast, pays close...

... the other’s paradigm objects. The first is that she engages with, but I think underplays, a particular aspect of how the Platonic dialogues are written: each is a self-contained work with its own set of interests. A dialogue substantially concerned, as the Republic is, with the question of how a city...

.... CHRISTINA VAN DYKE Calvin College The Philosophical Review, Vol. 113, No. 4 (October 2004) Tom Stoneham, Berkeley’s World: An Examination of the Three Dialogues. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xviii, 300. This is a puzzling book. On the one hand, Stoneham insists...