Agora, Academy, and the Conduct of Philosophy

Preface; N.D. Smith. List of Tables. List of Abbreviations. Part I: A Metaphilosophical Task. 1: Introduction. 2: The Socratic Problem. 3: The Platonic Question. Part II: The Developmental Hypothesis. 4: The Early Middle Late Consensus: How Deep? How Broad? 5: The Content of the Dialogues. 6: Stylometric Investigations. 7: Thesleff's Philological Undermining of Developmentalism. Part III: Havelock's Hypothesis: Plato Overturns the Oral Tradition. 8: Socrates Oralist, Plato Textualist. 9: Literacy in Fifth Century Athens. 10: The Anthropological Evidence and Where it Falls. Part IV: The Conduct of Philosophy. 11: Socrates in the Agora. 12: Plato in the Academy. Bibliography. Index of Passages. General Index.