Other, similar works are Gregory Vlastos,“TheSocraticElenchus,”inOxford Studies in Ancient
Philosophy, Julia Annas, ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983), 27–58; Leo Strauss,The City and
the Man(Chicago: Rand McNally, 1964); Seth Bernardete,Second Sailing: On Plato’s Republic(Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1989); Jill Gordon,Turning toward Philosophy: Literary Device and Dra-
matic Structure in Plato’s Dialogues(University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999); Gregory
Vlastos,Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosopher(Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991); Diskin Clay,
Platonic Questions: Dialogues with the Silent Philosopher(University Park: Pennsylvania State University
Press, 2000); Melissa Lane,Plato’s Progeny: How Plato and Socrates Still Capture the Modern Mind
(London: Bristol Classical Press, 2001); Iakovos Vassiliou,Aiming for Virtue in Plato(Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2008).
4 Gary Alan Scott,Does Socrates Have a Method? Rethinking Elenchus in Plato’s Dialogue and Beyond
(University Park: Pennsylvania State University, 2002); Rebecca Bensen Cain,The Socratic Method:
Plato’s Use of Philosophical Drama(London: Continuum, 2007); Matt Sintonen,The Socratic Tradition:
Questioning as Philosophy and as a Method(London: College Publications, 2009).
5 Robert D. Whipple Jr.,Socratic Method and Writing Instruction(Lanham: University Press of America,
1997); Rene Saran and Barbara Neisser,Enquiring Minds: Socratic Dialogue in Education(Stoke-on-
Trent: Trentham Books, 2004); Peter Kreeft,Socratic Logic: A Logic Text Using Socratic Method, Platonic
Questions, and Aristotelian Principles(South Bend: St. Augustine’s Press, 2005).
6 Ronald Gross,Socrates’Way: Seven Master Keys to Using Your Mind to the Utmost(New York: Tarch-
erPerigee, 2002); Matt Copeland,Socratic Circles: Fostering Critical and Creative Thinking in Middle and
High School(Portland, ME: Stenhouse Press, 2005); Erick Wilberding,Teach Like Socrates: Guiding
Socratic Dialogues and Discussion in the Classroom(Austin: Prufrock Press, 2014); also see Tziporah
Kasachkoff,In the Socratic Tradition: Essays on Teaching Philosophy(Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield,
1998).
7 Frank Guliuzza III,“In-Class Debating in Public Law Classes as a Complement to the Socratic Method,”
PS: Political Science & Politics24/4 (1991): 703–5; Steven Friedland,“How We Teach: A Survey of
Teaching Techniques in American Law Schools.”Seattle University Law Review20/1 (1996): 1–44; Lani
Guinier, Michelle Fine and Jane Balin,Becoming Gentlewomen: Women, Law School, and Institution
Change(Boston: Beacon, 1997); Cynthia G. Hawkins-León,“The Socratic Method-Problem Method
Dichotomy: The Debate over Teaching Method Continues.”Brigham Young University Education and
LawJournal 1 (1998): 1–18; Orin S. Kerr,“The Decline of the Socratic Method at Harvard,”Nebraska Law
Review78 (1999): 113–34; Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot,“Inside the Classroom of Harvard Law School
Professor David Wilkins,”Journal of Blacks in Higher Education25 (1999): 113–19; Peter M. Cicchino,
“Love and the Socratic Method,”American University Law Review50 (2001): 533–50; Avi Mintz,“From
Grade School to Law School: Socrates’Legacy in Education,”inA Companion to Socrates, Sara Ahbel-
Rappe and Rachana Kamtekar, eds. (London: Blackwell, 2006), 476–92; Carrie-Ann Biondi,“Socratic
Teaching: BeyondThe Paper Chase,”Teaching Philosophy31/2 (2008): 119–40; Benjamin V. Madison III,
“The Elephant in Law School Classrooms: Overuse of the Socratic Method as an Obstacle to Teaching
Modern Students,”University of Detroit Mercy Law Review85 (2008): 293–346; Joseph A. Dickinson,
“Understanding the Socratic Method in Law School Teaching after the Carnegie Foundation’s Educating
Lawyers,”Western New England Law Review31/1 (2009): 97–113; Evan Peterson,“Teaching to Think:
Applying the Socratic Method Outside the Law School Setting,”Journal of College Teaching & Learning
6/5 (2009): 83–7; Christie A. Linskens Christie,“What Critiques Have Been Made of the Socratic Method in
Legal Education? The Socratic Method in Legal Education: Uses, Abuses, and Beyond,”European Journal
of Law Reform12/3–4 (2010): 340–55; Michael Hunter Schwartz, Gerald F. Hess and Sophie M. Sparrow,
What the Best Law Teachers Do(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2013); Jamie R. Abrams,“Reframing
the Socratic Method,”Journal of Legal Education64/4 (2015): 562–85; Charles Szypszak,“Socratic Method
for the Right Reasons and in the Right Way: Lessons from Teaching Legal Analysis Beyond the American
Law School,”Journal of Political Science Education 11 (2015): 358–69.
8 Alan Bloom,The Republic of Plato(New York: Basic Books, 1991).
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