Curriculum Vitae of Hugh.H. Benson

Authoring the Analysis Plato's Charmides for Project Archelogos

CONTACT INFORMATION:

Professor Hugh H Benson
Department of Philosophy
University of Oklahoma
Norman, OK 73019, USA
Tel: 325-6324

CURRENT RESEARCH

Socratic Wisdom: The Model of Knowledge in Plato's Early Dialogues. (Under editorial review.)

PUBLICATIONS:

Plato Charmides for the Archelogos Project. Forthcoming 1998.

"A Framework for a Socratic Dynamic Theory." Apeiron 30, 1997, pp. 79-94.

"Socrates and the Beginnings of Moral Philosophy." Routledge History of Philosophy: From the Beginning to Plato (Routledge: Feb. 1997), ed. C.C.W. Taylor, pp. 323-355.

"The Problem of the Elenchus Reconsidered." Ancient Philosophy 7, 1987, pp. 67-85. Reprinted in Socrates, ed. W. Prior (Routledge 1996).

"The Priority of Definition and the Socratic Elenchos." Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 8, 1990, pp. 19-65. Reprinted in Socrates and his Contemporaries, ed. T.H. Irwin (Garland Publishing). Reprinted in Socrates, ed. W. Prior (Routledge 1996).

"The Aims of the Elenchos." In Knowledge, Teaching, and Wisdom (Kluwer: 1995), eds. K. Lehrer, B.J. Lum, B. Slichta, and N.D. Smith, pp. 21-33.

"The Dissolution of the Problem of the Elenchos." Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 13, 1995, pp. 45-112.

"Why is there a Discussion of False Belief in the Theaetetus?" Journal of the History of Philosophy 30, 1992, pp. 171-199.

 

 

"Meno, the Slave Boy, and the Elenchos." Phronesis 35, 1990, pp. 128-158.

"Misunderstanding the `What is F-ness?' Question." Archiv fur Geschichte der Philosophie 72, 1990, pp. 125-142. Reprinted in Essays on the Philosophy of Socrates, below.

"A Note on Eristic and the Socratic Elenchus." Journal of the History of Philosophy 27, 1989, pp. 591-599.

"Universals as Sortals in the Categories." Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 69, 1988, pp. 282-306.

 

"Natures, Capacities, and Final Causes." Forthcoming in Internationale Zeitschrift fur Philosophie.

Essays on the Philosophy of Socrates (Oxford University Press: 1992)

History of Philosophy [Harper College Outline Series], co-authored with D. Scott-Kakures, S. Castagnetto, W. Tashek, P. Hurley (HarperCollins Publishers Inc., 1993)