Philosophical dialogue as a genre, but also as a minimal method for doing philosophy.

Brain dump of things to read more about:

• Socratic dialogue in general.

  • All the associated ideas within early-to-middle Platonic dialogue: Socratic method/elenchus/refutation/testing, definition.

    • Relationship of questioning to eros (can't remember where the connection between questioning and eros takes place, think it is either Phaedrus or Symposium?).

  • Gadamer's recovery of dialectic within dialogue and the associated stuff about rhetoric being the converse of dialectic (roughly, if one's role in dialogue is about understanding the other's words/language, then rhetoric can help in the use of communicating our understanding, e.g. invention and the topics of invention).

• Davidson's triangulation.

• The art of questioning as a core skill in philosophical dialogue and inquiry.

  • The hermeneutic loop between question and answer(s).

• Conditions of possibility for philosophical dialogue:

  • Community of inquirers (see also Social Thinking list).

    • Intellectual virtues of inquirers: open-mindedness, humility, and others.

  • Goodwill/friendship (to conversation partners and the idea under discussion).

    • Relationship of agonism (and eristic in rhetoric) to this.

• Practical skills: Group inquiry, listening skills, conversation skills, nunchuk skills.