{"id":472,"date":"2010-06-02T15:03:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T19:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientphilosophysociety.org\/?p=472"},"modified":"2010-06-02T15:03:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-02T19:03:00","slug":"platos-many-devices-reviewed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientphilosophysociety.org\/website\/platos-many-devices-reviewed\/","title":{"rendered":"Plato’s Many Devices Reviewed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gerard Kuperus suggested that it might be a good idea to link to this review of the volume Gary Alan Scott edited entitled, Philosophy in Dialogue: Plato’s Many Devices<\/em><\/a>. The review is by Rebecca Benson Cain.\u00a0 In it she speaks very well of the work as a whole, which includes articles from a number of members of the Ancient Philosophy Society.<\/p>\n

Check out Cain’s full review<\/a>, which appears in the Bryn Mawr Classical Review<\/em>, 2009.04.71.<\/p>\n

Here is a link to the book, available from Amazon.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gerard Kuperus suggested that it might be a good idea to link to this review of the volume Gary Alan Scott edited entitled, Philosophy in Dialogue: Plato’s Many Devices. The review is by Rebecca Benson Cain.\u00a0 In it she speaks very well of the work as a whole, which includes articles from a number of members of the Ancient Philosophy Society. Check out Cain’s full review, which appears in the Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2009.04.71. . . . Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,28,61],"class_list":["post-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-of-interest","tag-book","tag-book-review","tag-plato"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p276B2-7C","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10,"url":"https:\/\/www.ancientphilosophysociety.org\/website\/philosophy-in-dialogue-platos-many-devices\/","url_meta":{"origin":472,"position":0},"title":"Philosophy in Dialogue: Plato’s Many Devices","author":"Christopher Long","date":"September 17, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Traditional Plato scholarship, in the English-speaking world, has assumed that Platonic dialogues are merely collections of arguments. 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