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    Plato's Forms: Varieties of Interpretation (edited book)
    Lexington Books. 2002.
    Plato's Forms: Varieties of Interpretation is an ambitious work that brings together, in a single volume, widely divergent approaches to the topic of the Forms in Plato's dialogues
  • Civil Religion in Plato's "Laws": Choristry and Preludes
    Dissertation, Duquesne University. 1993.
    This dissertation asks whether the religion of the proposed colony discussed in the Laws is merely a system of politically useful fictions or is meant as an expression of religious truth. The line of investigation is an examination of the discussion of choreia in Book Two of the Laws, followed by an examination of the preludes or preambles of various laws. By means of these examinations, a conception of the colonist's religion is developed which includes an element of irreducibly religious truth…Read more
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    Erotic Wisdom: Philosophy and Intermediacy in Plato's Symposium
    with Gary Alan Scott
    State University of New York Press. 2008.
    Erotic Wisdom provides a careful reading of one of Plato's most beloved dialogues, the Symposium, which explores the nature and scope of human desire (erôs). Gary Alan Scott and William A. Welton engage all of the dialogue's major themes, devoting special attention to illuminating Plato's conception of philosophy. In the Symposium, Plato situates philosophy in an intermediate (metaxu) position--between need and resource, ignorance and knowledge--showing how the very lack of what one desires can …Read more
  •  5
    Plato's Forms: Varieties of Interpretation (edited book)
    Lexington Books. 2002.
    Plato's Forms: Varieties of Interpretation is an ambitious work that brings together, in a single volume, widely divergent approaches to the topic of the Forms in Plato's dialogues.
  •  13
    The Viability of Virtue in the Mean
    with Ronald Polansty
    Apeiron 28 (4): 79-102. 1995.
  •  22
    The Republic (review)
    Ancient Philosophy 15 (2): 612-613. 1995.
  •  15
    Who Speaks for Plato?: Studies in Platonic Anonymity
    with Hayden W. Ausland, Eugenio Benitez, Ruby Blondell, Lloyd P. Gerson, Francisco J. Gonzalez, J. J. Mulhern, Debra Nails, Erik Ostenfeld, Gerald A. Press, Gary Alan Scott, P. Christopher Smith, Harold Tarrant, Holger Thesleff, Joanne Waugh, and Elinor J. M. West
    Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2000.
    In this international and interdisciplinary collection of critical essays, distinguished contributors examine a crucial premise of traditional readings of Plato's dialogues: that Plato's own doctrines and arguments can be read off the statements made in the dialogues by Socrates and other leading characters. The authors argue in general and with reference to specific dialogues, that no character should be taken to be Plato's mouthpiece. This is essential reading for students and scholars of Plat…Read more
  •  4
    The Republic (review)
    Ancient Philosophy 15 (2): 612-613. 1995.
  •  20
    Plato (review)
    Review of Metaphysics 58 (4): 871-872. 2005.
    The translation itself is rather literal, striving for consistency in the rendering of Greek terms. Its style would perhaps be best appreciated by those who admire Allan Bloom’s translation of the Republic or Thomas Pangle’s translation of the Laws. Although one might quibble with some of the translators’ choices, the overall result is a text that would give a reader unschooled in Greek a fairly reliable sense of the flow of ideas in the original.
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    Erotic Wisdom: Philosophy and Intermediacy in Plato's Symposium
    with Gary Alan Scott
    State University of New York Press. 2009.
    _A lively and highly readable commentary on one of Plato’s most beloved dialogues._