Bibliographies and Further Reading
Plato
I GENERAL WORKS
For a recent collection of essays on a wide range of topics in Plato see:
Kraut, Richard, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Plato (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1992.)
Perhaps the best single volume treatment of Plato's work, and one that is particularly sensitive to the literary aspects of Plato's writing, is:
Grube, G. M. A., Plato's Thought, with new introduction, bibliographic essay, and bibliography by Donald J. Zeyl (Hackett, Indianapolis, 1980)
Useful for historical material, summaries of scholarly debates about dating, and discussions of textual questions, though containing very little philosophy, is:
Guthrie, W. K. C., A History of Greek Philosophy, Vol. 4 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1975)
The starting points for any discussion of the Socratic dialogues are:
Vlastos, Gregory, Socrates, Ironist and Moral Philosopher (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 1991)
, Socratic Studies, ed. Myles Burnyeat (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1994)
An edition of the Greek text of the Gorgias, the introduction and commentary to which has much of value to offer to the reader without Greek, is:
Dodds, E. R., Plato: Gorgias, A Revised Text with Introduction and Commentary (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1959)
For a translation with philosophical commentary of the Phaedo, see:
Gallop, David, Plato: Phaedo, translated with notes (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1975)
The best short discussions of the Symposium are the introductions to:
Nehamas, Alexander and Woodruff, Paul, Plato: Symposium, translated with introduction and notes (Hackett, Indianapolis, 1989), pp. xi-xxvi
Dover, Kenneth, Plato: Symposium, Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1980), pp. 1-14
The most philosophical stimulating introduction to the Republic remains:
Annas, Julia, An Introduction to Plato's Republic (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1981)
Further discussion of a variety of topics in the Republic, including the sun, the line, and the cave, can be found in:
Cross, R. C. and Woozley, A. D., Plato's Republic: A Philosophical
Commentary (St Martin's Press, New York, 1964) Reeve, C. D. C., Philosopher-Kings: The Argument of Plato's Republic
(Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1988)
An idiosyncratic but closely argued account is:
Irwin, Terence, Plato's Ethics (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1995)
On the Phaedrus, see the imaginative study by:
Ferrari, G.R.F., Listening to the Cicadas: a Study of Plato's Phaedrus (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1987)
A recent and important book-length study of the Parmenides is:
Meinwald, Constance, Plato's Parmenides (Oxford University Press, New York, 1991)
An excellent translation of the Theaetetus with a book-length, philosophically compelling introduction is:
Burnyeat, Myles, The Theaetetus of Plato, with a translation by M. J. Levett, revised by Myles Burnyeat (Hackett, Indianapolis and Cambridge, 1990)
2. OTHER WORKS CITED IN THE NOTES
Brandwood, Leonard, 'Stylometry and chronology', in Kraut (i99z)
pp. 90-1x0 Dover, K. J., Greek Homosexuality, updated with a new postscript
(Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1989) Finley, M. I., ed., The Legacy of Greece: a New Appraisal (Clarendon
Press, Oxford, 1981)
Gottlieb, Anthony, Socrates (Phoenix/Orion, London, 1997) Kirk, G. S., Raven, J. E., and Schofield M., The Presocratic Philosophers,
second edition (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1983)
Kraut, Richard, 'Introduction to the Study of Plato', in Kraut
pp. 1-50 McKirahan, Richard D., Jr., Philosophy before Socrates (Hackett, Indianapolis, 1994)
Popper
Popper, Karl, The Poverty of Historicism (Routledge (ARK edn.),
London, 1986, reprinted 1994). Popper, Karl, The Open Society and its Enemies (Routledge and Sons,
London, 1945. Golden Jubilee Edition, Routledge, 1995). Popper, Karl, The Logic of Scientific Discovery (Hutchinson and Co.,
London, 1959, revised 1980). Popper, Karl, Conjectures and Refutations (Routledge-Kegan Paul,
London, 1963).
Popper, Karl, Objective Knowledge (OUP, 1972.). Popper, Karl, Unended Quest (Fontana, London, 1976, revised Flamingo,
London, 1986. Routledge, 1992.). Bambrough, Renford ed., Plato, Popper and Politics (Heffer, Cambridge,
1967). Corvi, Roberta, An Introduction to the Thought of Karl Popper
(Routledge, London, 1997). Magee, Bryan, Popper (Fontana, London, 1977). Miller, David ed., A Pocket Popper (Fontana, London, 1983). Shearmur, Jeremy, The Political Thought of Karl Popper (Routledge, London, 1996).
Turing
J. L. Britton, D. C. Ince, P. T. Saunders (eds), Collected Works of A. M. Turing (Elsevier, 1992,).
Three volumes of the collected works have appeared, with extensive annotation by the editors. The fourth, containing Turing's papers in mathematical logic (eds. R. O. Gandy and C. E. M. Yates) is still (as at 1997) in preparation.
Herken, Rolf, (ed.), The Universal Turing Machine (Oxford University
Press, 1988), includes definitive articles on the concept of
computability. Hinsley, F. H. and Alan Stripp (eds.), Codebreakers, The Inside Story of
Bletchley Park (Oxford University Press, 1993). Hodges, Andrew, Alan Turing: the Enigma (London, Burnett with Hutchinson, 1983; New York, Simon & Schuster, 1983; new edn. London, Vintage, 199z)
Hodges, Andrew, http://www.turing.org.uk/turing/Turing.html. Website with updates of information and comment, bibliography, links, images, and Turing machines.
Millican, P.J.R., and A. Clark (eds.), Machines and Thought: the Legacy of Alan Turing (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1996).
Penrose, Roger, 'Beyond the doubting of a shadow' (Psyche, electronic journal, 1996: http://psyche.cs.monash.edu. au/volume2-1/psyche-96-2-23-shadows-10-penrose.html) is the best introduction to the ideas developed in Penrose's The Emperor's New Mind (Oxford University Press, 1989) and Shadows of the Mind (Oxford University Press, 1994)