The Doctor and the Pastry Chef: Pleasure and Persuasion in Plato’s Gorgias Penultimate draft – final version in Ancient Philosophy, 27, 2007 Jessica Moss The Gorgias’ ostensible subject is rhetoric, which it defines as a “producer of persuasion.” But the dialogue is also centrally concerned with another kind of persuasion: Socrates’ attempts to persuade his interlocutors to pursue the life of j...

THE NOTION OF A Socratic PHILOSOPHY, as distinct from what is commonly known as Platonism, has its origins in the work of Gregory Vlastos1 and continues today through the scholars he has influenced.2 The Socratic movement in Plato studies maintains that one can identify in certain Platonic dialogues a philosophical method and a collection of philosophical theses which may properly be attributed...

This paper develops a new conception of organizational knowledge management as "knowledge ecology." The Socrates electronic learning environment is described as an example of a knowledge ecosystem for education and training. The Socrates program was developed as a knowledge management system, viewing classrooms as organizations for lifelong learning. Socrates allows even novice Web users to qui...

In Plato’s Meno the overarching question is whether virtue can be taught, and as Socrates and Meno explore this subject they are led to question the nature of teaching and learning in general. The following is a textual analysis into what Socrates believes to constitute teaching in the Meno, with the nature of learning also being tangentially addressed given the integral link between the two. A...

MOTIVATION Methods for detecting somatic genome rearrangements in tumours using next-generation sequencing are vital in cancer genomics. Available algorithms use one or more sources of evidence, such as read depth, paired-end reads or split reads to predict structural variants. However, the problem remains challenging due to the significant computational burden and high false-positive or false-...

I n ancient Greece, a group of traveling “wise men,’’ known as sophists, lectured on a large variety of subjects. Their presentations were spectacular and highly influential because they spoke beautifully. Socrates, on the other hand, tried to develop the minds of young people by asking a series of carefully conceived questions; he taught his students to think. Socrates considered the sophists ...

Abstract In several dialogues Socrates criticizes negative comments made against a sophist or the sophists. I show that Socrates’ target really is sophists’ detractor, not sophists themselves. From these passages draw two broader conclusions. First, Plato’s defence of memory sometimes relies on creating parallel between and Socrates, rather than distinguishing them him. Secondly, Socratic philo...