Published and Upcoming Works
Published Writings
Prolegomena I: Minimal Commitments of Dialectical Inquiry
What Must Be True for Questioning to Matter, and Why It’s a Game Worth Playing
Prolegomena II: When Inquiry Fails
A Diagnostic Analysis of Failures of Dialectical Inquiry
Interlude I: Self-Application of the Allegory of the Cave
A Method I Use on Myself, and Its Limits
Dialogue Analysis I: Apology – What Is Socrates Even Doing?
Inquiry on Trial, or The Defense of a Way of Living
Upcoming Works
Interlude II: The Other Apology - Xenophon’s Account of the Trial of Socrates
A Rather Different View of the Same Man
Dialogue Analysis II: Euthyphro – A Comedy of (Category) Errors
Category Errors, Bad Definitions, and You. What’s Plato Really Doing in Euthyphro?
Dialogue Analysis III: Crito – The Seduction of Reasonable Urgency
Norms, Obligations, and the Temptation of Practical Necessity
Dialogue Analysis IV: Phaedo – Socrates Is Dead.
Immortality, Comfort, and the Lure of Final Closure
Dialogue Analysis V: Symposium – Eros Without Instruction
Speech, Seduction, and the Performance of Insight
Dialogue Analysis VI: Meno – How Not to Ask About Knowledge
Why Definitions Fail Before They Begin
Dialogue Analysis VII: Gorgias – “Winning” Is Not Understanding
Persuasion, Responsibility, and the Refusal of Standards
Dialogue Analysis VIII: Charmides – Knowing That You Know… What?
Reflexivity, Knowledge, and Conceptual Overreach
Dialogue Analysis IX: Laches – Confidence Before Understanding
Authority, Virtue, and False Grounding
Interlude III: Contemporary Plato Scholarship – What Do We Think Plato Was Doing?
Dialogue Analysis X: Republic, Book I – Justice Without a Definition
Power, Speech, and the Conditions of Argument
Pseudo-Platonic Dialogue I: Heraclitus – Obscurity Masquerades as Depth
Pseudo-Platonic Dialogue II: Rival Socrates – Practical Wisdom, Inquiry, and the Cost of Making Sense
Pseudo-Platonic Dialogue III: Pyrrho – How to Refuse Assent Without Refusing Inquiry