WOLFSDORF'S PAPERS IN ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY

 

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"The Dramatic Date of Plato's Protagoras," Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 140 (1997) 223-30

"The Historical Reader of Plato's Protagoras," Classical Quarterly 48 (1998) 126-33
"Plato and the Mouthpiece Theory," Ancient Philosophy 19 (1999) suppl. vol. 13-24
"Dikaiosyne and Hosiotes at Protagoras 330-1," Apeiron 35 (2002) 181-210
"Socrates' Pursuit of Definitions," Phronesis 48 (2003) 271-312
"Understanding the 'What-is-F?' Question," Apeiron 36 (2003) 175-88
"Comments on Benson: 'Socrates' Method of Hypothesis in Meno'," Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy 18 (2003) 127-43
"Interpreting Plato's Early Dialogues," Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 27 (2004) 15-41
"Socrates' Avowals of Knowledge," Phronesis 49 (2004) 74-142
"The Socratic Fallacy and the Epistemological Priority of Definitional Knowledge," Apeiron 37 (2004) 35-67
"Euthyphro 10a2-11b1: A Study in Platonic Metaphysics and its Reception Since 1960," Apeiron 38 (2005) 1-72
"Aition and Aitia in Plato," Ancient Philosophy 25 (2005) 341-9
"Dynamis in Laches," Phoenix 59 (2005) 324-47
"Desire for Good in Meno 77B2-78B6," Classical Quarterly 56 (2006) 77-92
"Hippias Major 301b2-c2: Plato's Critique of a Corporeal Conception of Forms and the Form-Participant Relation," Apeiron 39 (2006) 122-56
"The Ridiculousness of Being Overcome by Pleasure: Protagoras 352b1-358d4," Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 31 (2006) 113-36
"Courage and Knowledge at Protagoras 349E1-351B2," Classical Quarterly 56 (2006) 436-44
"The Irony of Socrates," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 65 (2007) 175-87
"Philia in Plato's Lysis," Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 103 (2007) 235-59
Trials of Reason: Plato and the Crafting of Philosophy, Oxford University Press, 2008, chapter one
"The Method eks hypotheseos at Meno 86e1-87d8," Phronesis 53 (2008) 35-64
"Rhetoric's Inadequate Means: Gorgias 466a4-468e5," Classical Philology 103 (2008) 109-34
"Hesiod, Prodicus, and the Socratics on Work and Pleasure," Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 35 (2008) 1-18
"Eironeia in Aristophanes and Plato," Classical Quarterly 58 (2008) 666-72
"Empedocles and his Ancient Readers on Desire and Pleasure," Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 36 (2009) 1-71
"Epicurus on Euphrosyne and Energeia," Apeiron 42 (2009) 221-57
"Plato's Epistemology," forthcoming, Routledge Companion to Ancient Philosophy, Warren and Sheffield, eds.
"Socratic Philosophizing," forthcoming, Continuum Companion to Socrates, Smith and Bussanich, eds.
"Pleasure and Truth in Republic 9," under review
"False Pleasures of the Imagination: Philebus 36c6-40e5," under review
"Prodicus on Terpsis, Chara, and Euphrosyne," under review
Pleasure in the Natural Order, forthcoming, Cambridge University Press
Overview of Ancient Western Philosophy
Curriculum Vitae
Non-Academic Items