“Interpreting Plato’s Dialogues makes a timely and important contribution to contemporary platonic scholarship ... it provides an extended discussion of the vexed, yet vitally important question of why Plato wrote philosophy in the way he did. Not only does Angelo Corlett offer the reader careful analyses of the major competing approaches to Plato, explaining in what way each is attractive and in what each is flawed, he develops his own novel and insightful view of how we ought to read Plato. This penetrating discussion of what Plato took himself to be doing puts the entire platonic corpus in a new light.”