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________ (1973; 2d ed. 1981). Platonic Studies. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
________ (1983). “The Socratic elenchus.” Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 1: 27–58. Reprinted in Fine
(1999), ch. 1.
________ (1985). “Socrates’s disavowal of knowledge.” Philosophical Quarterly 35: 1–31. Reprinted in Fine
(1999), ch. 2.
________ (1987). “Socratic irony.” Classical Quarterly 37: 79-96. Reprinted in Benson (1992).
________ (1988). “Elenchus and mathematics: A turning-point in Plato’s philosophical development.”
American Journal of Philology 109: 362-96. Reprinted in Benson (1992).
________ (1991). Socrates. Ironist and Moral Philosopher. Cambridge University Press; Cornell University
Press. Rejects, in particular, Irwin’s view that Socrates was a hedonist.
________ (1993). Studies in Greek Philosophy. Volume 1: The Presocratics. Volume 2: Socrates, Plato and their
Tradition. Princeton University Press.
Wallis, R.T. (1972, 2 nd ed. 1995). Neoplatonism. London and Indianapolis: Gerald Duckworth & Company and
Hackett Publishing Company.
Wedberg, Anders (1955). “The Theory of Ideas,” Ch. III of Plato’s Philosophy of Mathematics. Reprinted in
Vlastos (1971b) ch. 3.
________ (1982). History of Philosophy. Volume 1: Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Oxford University Press.
Perhaps the best short history of philosophy ever written. Wedberg provides extraordinarily clear and
perceptive analyses of the arguments and positions of the various philosophers. He deals with
philosophy in its connection with natural science, not religious thought.
West, M.L. (1971). Early Greek Philosophy and the Orient. An excellent and judicious account, though probably
not skeptical enough.
Wheelwright, Phillip (1959). Heraclitus. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton Unversity Press. Complete
fragments in Greek and English, with detailed discussion of each one.
White, Nicholas P. (1976). Plato on Knowledge and Reality. Indianapolis, Indiana: Hackett Publishing Company.
Wians, William, ed. (1996). Aristotle’s Philosophical Development: Problems and Prospects. London: Rowman &
Littlefield. A collection of classic pieces as well as surveys of contemporary work.
Wilcox, Joel (1994). The Origins of Epistemology in Early Greek Thought. A Study of Psyche and Logos in Heraclitus.
Studies in the History of Philosophy, 34. Lewiston, New York: The Edwin Mellen Press.
Wilson, Brian R., ed. (1970). Rationality. New York, New York: Harper. A collection of essays bearing on
the rationality of preliterate peoples and of their practices and beliefs. The pieces are chosen to
represent the range of current views, and many show considerable philosophical as well
anthropological sophistication.
Windelband, Wilhelm (1899). A History of Philosophy. Revised edition. (First edition, 1892.) Translated by
James H. Cushman. Reprinted in 2 vols. (Harper & Row: New York 1958).
________ (2d ed., 1894). Geschichte der Alten Philosophy. Translated by James H. Cushman, 1899. Charles
Schribner’s Sons.
Woodruff, Paul (1990). “Plato’s early theory of knowledge.” In Everson (1990) 60-84. Argues that Socrates
was a skeptic not about knowledge as ordinarily understood, but about “expert knowledge,” that is,
the pretensions of the expert to a superior sort of knowledge rooted in an understanding of underlying
realities.
Woozley, A.D. (1971). “Socrates on disobeying the law.” In Vlastos (1971a).
Zeller. A History of Greek Philosophy to the Time of Socrates (1881). Socrates and the Socratic Schools
(1877). Plato and the Early Academy (1888). Aristotle and the Earlier Peripatetics (1897). Stoics,
Epicureans and Skeptics (1880). Eclecticism (1885).
Zeyl (1980). “Socrates and hedonism.” Phronesis 25: 250-269. Argues against the view of Nussbaum (1986)