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5Plato's Ethics: Early and Middle DialoguesIn Sean D. Kirkland & Eric Sanday (eds.), A Companion to Ancient Philosophy, Northwestern University Press. 2018.This chapter contains sections titled: Socrates and Plato: Conflicting Psychologies of Action The Desire for Good in Platonic Ethics Peculiarities of the Treatment of Justice as Psychological Well‐adjustment Psychological Well‐adjustment as what the Socratic Science of Justice must become given the new Platonic Psychology of Action The Development of Greek Ethics Through Plato Bibliography.
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The Wax Tablet, logic and ProtagoreanismIn G. Boys-Stones, C. Gill & D. El-Murr (eds.), The Platonic Art of philosophy, Cambridge University Press. 2013.
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81. What is the Form of the Good the Form of? A Question about the Plot of the RepublicIn Douglas Cairns, Fritz-Gregor Herrmann & Terrence Penner (eds.), Pursuing the Good: Ethics and Metaphysics in Plato's Republic, University of Edinburgh. pp. 15-41. 2007.
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13Inequality, Intention, and Ignorance: Socrates on Punishment and the Human GoodIn Gerasimos Santas & Georgios Anagnostopoulos (eds.), Democracy, Justice, and Equality in Ancient Greece: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives, Springer Verlag. pp. 83-138. 2018.I examine here a wide array of interlocking Socratic doctrines, especially as they show up in the ideas of Socratic Ignorance and the Examined Life —along with such other Socratic claims as the following. First, that No one errs willingly. Second, that, in acting intentionally, everyone is always seeking their own greatest available good, given their present circumstances, where that greatest good is taken over the rest of their lives. Third, that those who don’t see that harming others will not…Read more
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The Unity of VirtueIn Gail Fine (ed.), Plato, Volume 2: Ethics, Politics, Religious and the Soul, Oxford University Press. 1999.
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157Socrates on the Strength of Knowledge: Protagoras 351B-357EArchiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 79 (2): 117-149. 1997.
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75Plato's LysisCambridge University Press. 2005.The Lysis is one of Plato's most engaging but also puzzling dialogues; it has often been regarded, in the modern period, as a philosophical failure. The full philosophical and literary exploration of the dialogue illustrates how it in fact provides a systematic and coherent, if incomplete, account of a special theory about, and special explanation of, human desire and action. Furthermore, it shows how that theory and explanation are fundamental to a whole range of other Platonic dialogues and in…Read more
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41GERASIMOS [or Seeking Freedom from the Fregean Under the Description Methodology]Philosophical Inquiry 31 (1-2): 107-130. 2009.
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27What Laches and Nicias Miss-And Whether Socrates Thinks Courage Merely a Part of VirtueAncient Philosophy 12 (1): 1-27. 1992.
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The Good, Advantage, Happiness, and the Form of the Good: How continuous with Socratic Ethics is Platonic Ethics?In Douglas Cairns, Fritz-Gregor Herrmann & Terrence Penner (eds.), Pursuing the Good: Ethics and Metaphysics in Plato's Republic, University of Edinburgh. pp. 93-123. 2007.
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1Towards a Prudential Reading of the CritoIn V. Karamanlis (ed.), Socrates: 2400 years since his death: International Symposium Proceedings, . pp. 13-21. 2004.
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Socratic Ethics and the Socratic Psychology of Action: A Philosophical FrameworkIn Donald R. Morrison (ed.), Cambridge Companion to Socrates, Cambridge University Press. pp. 260-292. 2010.
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4Nature, Knowledge, and Virtue, Essays in Memory of Joan Kung (edited book)Academin printing and publishing. 1989.
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33Chapter EightProceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 3 (1): 263-325. 1987.
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1The wax tablet, logic and ProtagoreanismIn George Boys-Stones, Dimitri El Murr & C. J. Gill (eds.), The Platonic Art of Philosophy: Essays in honnor of Christopher Rowe, . 2013.
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10The Forms and the Sciences in Socrates and PlatoIn Hugh H. Benson (ed.), A Companion to Plato, Blackwell. 2006.This chapter contains sections titled: The “What is X?” Question, the Sciences, Virtue, and the Forms Plato's “Argument from the Sciences” for the Existence of Forms, as Apparently Represented by Aristotle, and Aristotle's Criticism of that Argument Plato the Parmenidean Sciences and Pseudo‐Sciences The Good and the Sciences A Proposal: The Forms are Attributes; and There are No Attributes that are not Forms What about Plato's Other Reasons for Believing in Forms (Logical, or Mystical‐Metaphysic…Read more
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IntroductionIn Douglas Cairns, Fritz-Gregor Herrmann & Terrence Penner (eds.), Pursuing the Good: Ethics and Metaphysics in Plato's Republic, University of Edinburgh. pp. 1-14. 2007.
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43Desire, identity, and existence: essays in honor of T.M. Penner (edited book)Academic Print. &. 2003.
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The Historical Socrates and Plato's Early Dialogues: Some Philosophical QuestionsIn C. J. Rowe J. Annas (ed.), New Perspectives on Plato, Modern and Ancient, . pp. 189-212. 2002.
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1Thrasymachus and the os alethos RulerSkepsis: A Journal for Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Research 20. 2009.
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Socratic Ethics: Ultra-Realism, Determinism, and Ethical TruthIn Christopher Gill (ed.), Virtue, norms, and objectivity: issues in ancient and modern ethics, Oxford University Press. 2005.
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Nature, knowledge, and vertue:Essays in memory of Professor Joan Kung (edited book)Academic printing and publishing. 1989.
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What is the Form of the Good the Form of: a Question about the Plot of the RepublicIn Douglas Cairns, Fritz-Gregor Herrmann & Terrence Penner (eds.), Pursuing the Good: Ethics and Metaphysics in Plato's Republic, University of Edinburgh. pp. 42-60. 2007.
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13The Forms in the RepublicIn Gerasimos Xenophon Santas (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Plato's Republic, Blackwell. pp. 234-262. 2006.This chapter contains section titled: On What the Forms Are: the Present State of the Question Sketch of the View to be Offered Here Plan of this Discussion of the Forms The Republic's Project as a Whole The First Group of Passages on the Forms (V.472b—e with 454a–456c) The Second Group of Passages (X.596a–602b) The Third Group of Passages on the Forms (V.475e–480b, VI.484b–485b, 486d‐e, 490a—b, 493e–494a, 500b–502d) The Fourth Group of Passages (VI.502c‐VII.541b: Sun, Line, and Cave) as Describ…Read more
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