PROGRAMME

 

 

Facultad de Filosofía

Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Ciudad Universitaria

Campus de Moncloa

Plaza Menéndez Pelayo sin número

 

Monday, May 5

8.00-9.00: Reception of the Participants (Central Hall, Ground floor)

9.00-10.00: Opening Ceremony (Paraninfo, Ground floor)

–          Welcome to the XIV Symposium: Beatriz Bossi (President of the IPS)

–          Juan José García Norro (Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy)

–          Antonio Rivera (Director of the Department ‘Philosophy and Society’)

 

Memorial to Honor our Dearest Members:

 

–          Thomas More Robinson (Livio Rossetti: online)

–          Tomás Calvo Martínez (Álvaro Vallejo Campos)

–          Gianni Casertano (Lidia Palumbo)

–          Maurizio Migliori (Elisabetta Cattanei)

–          Holger Thesleff (Olga Alieva)

–          Thomas Szlezák (Francisco Lisi)

10.00-11.00: Plenary Session (Paraninfo) – Chair: Claudia Mársico

Cornelia de Vogel Lecturer Prof. Christopher Rowe: ‘On (Mis-translating) Plato on Belief and Knowledge: the Theaetetus and Other Dialogues’ presented by Mary Margaret Mc Cabe

 

11.00-11.30: Coffee Break (Cafetería de Profesores, downstairs)

 

Parallel Session 1: Plato against Flux and Materialism (Paraninfo) – Chair: Ivana Costa

  • 11.30-12.10: Noburu Notomi: Epicharmus and Plato in the Theaetetus (152e)
  • 12.10-12.50: Gregory MacIsaac: Plato’s Account of Presocratic Materialism: A New Interpretation of the Theaetetus

 

Parallel Session 2: The Prologue (Salón de Grados: ground floor, first room on the right) – Chair: Raúl Gutiérrez

  • 11.30-12.10: Sung-Hoon Kang: “Just Now or Long Ago” – The First Words of the Theaetetus
  • 12.10-12.50: Gabriele Cornelli: Verdad y juego retórico en Platón (Tht. 142a-143d)

 

Parallel Session 3: Knowing Theaetetus (Seminario 217: First Floor: stairs on the left: half corridor on the left) – Chair: Laura Candiotto

  • 11.30-12.10: Jonathan Fine: Knowing Theaetetus (Tht. 142a-145c)
  • 12.10-12.50: Lidia Palumbo: Sulla somiglianza tra Socrate e Teeteto e sul loro ruolo di specchi (Tht. 144d-145b)

 

13.00-14.15 Lunch (Cafetería de Profesores, downstairs)

 

Parallel Session 4: The Prologue (Paraninfo) – Chair: Irmgard Männlein

  • 14.20-15.00: Benny Kozian, Approaching the truth: The prologue as a non-aporetic way out (Tht. 142a1-143c7)
  • 15.00-15.40: Filippo Forcignanò: The Text Under Surveillance: The Reliability of Writing in the Prologue to the Theaetetus

 

Parallel Session 5: Knowing Socrates (Salón de Grados) – Chair: Lidia Palumbo

  • 14.20-15.00: Antonino Spinelli: Socrate sapiente o ignorante? Una lettura paralella de Teeteto e Cratilo
  • 15.00-15.40: Zdenek Lenner: Erōs et erōtēsis dans le Théétète: entre ignorer et savoir

 

Parallel Session 6: On Age and Wonder (Sala de Juntas) – Chair: Luca Pitteloud

  • 14.20-15.00: Martin Graceffa: Jeunesse et maturité dans le Théétète de Platon. (Autour de 149a-151d, 166a-169d et 172c-177c)
  • 15.00-15.40: Chloe Balla: Why wonder? Plato on the proper predisposition to philosophy (155d)

 

Parallel Session 7: Self-Awareness (Seminario 217) – Chair: Hua-kuei Ho

  • 14.20-15.00: Daniel Bloom: Self-Awareness and Lack of Self-Awareness in Plato’s Theaetetus (163d-164d, 184b-186e)
  • 15.00-15.40: Yuji Kurihara: “Self-Knowledge” and Socratic Ignorance in Plato’s Theaetetus

 

15.40-16.00: Short Coffee Break

 

Parallel Session 8: On Calculating (Paraninfo) – Chair: Francisco Gonzalez

  • 16.10-16.50: Yan Lu: Mathematical Incommensurability and Constructive Definition in Theaetetus 147d2-148b2
  • 16.50-17.30: Pauline Sabrier-Thomas Seissl: Contingent Future in Plato’s Theaetetus (178a-179b)

 

Parallel Session 9: On Terms and Dialectics (Sala de Juntas) – Chair: Álvaro Vallejo

  • 16.10-16.50: André Rehbinder: « Être » et « être tel », « plus grand » et « plus grand que » : à propos de deux glissements de sens du Théétète (152a-168c)
  • 16.50-17.30: Eleni Kaklamanou and Maria Pavlou: Ἐπανόρθωσις in the Theaetetus 167e-168a

 

Parallel Session 10: The Theaetetus and the Philebus (Salón de Grados) – Chair: Dougal Blyth

  • 16.10-16.50: Olga Alieva: Sense and Sensibility: the Theaetetus and the Philebus on Reason and Pleasure
  • 16.50-17.30: Raffaella Antonini: The Theaetetus and the Philebus: where does the μέτρον truly lie? (Tht. 177c6-179b5)

 

Parallel Session 11: The Theaetetus, the Republic and the Philebus (Seminario 217) Chair:  Silvio Marino

  • 16.10-16.50: Lia Theodoroudi: The Theaetetus as a Synopsis of the Sciences
  • 16.50-17.30: Sarah Feldman: Relative Measurement and the Structural Characteristics of Perception in Theaetetus 153d-158e and Philebus 41b-42c

 

17.30-18.00: First Plenary Info Session: European Research Council: Grant Schemes: (Margherita Lecis Cocco) (Paraninfo) (Second Plenary Info Session: Elisabetta Cattanei: Thursday afternoon)

 

18.15: Bus Service to the City Centre

 

19.00-20.30: Welcome Reception at the Círculo de Bellas Artes (downtown)

Sala María Zambrano (5th Floor)

(Please bring your Symposium Badge on)

Tuesday May 6

 

9.00-10.00: Plenary Session 1 (Paraninfo) – Chair: Noburu Notomi

  • Franco Ferrari: Aporia e maieutica: la struttura del Teeteto e il significato dell’esito aporetico del dialogo

 

10.00-11.00: Plenary Session 2 (Paraninfo) – Chair: Álvaro Vallejo

Marcelo Boeri: “Cuando somos niños este recipiente (que es el alma) está vacío” Los aspectos tentadores de la epistemología empirista del Teeteto y por qué hay que resistir la tentación

 

11.00-11.30: Coffee Break

 

Parallel Session 1: Perception and Knowledge (Paraninfo) – Chair: Franco Ferrari

  • 11.40-12.20: Kristian Larsen: On Perception and Knowledge in Plato’s Theaetetus (151e-152d, 184b-186e)
  • 12.20-13.00: Clement Heidsieck: La théorie de la vision du Théétète (153e-154, 156a-e) est-elle platonicienne?

 

Parallel Session 2: Perception, Medicine and Knowledge (Sala de Juntas) – Chair: Elisabetta Cattanei

  • 11.40-12.20: Silvio Marino: Aspects of medical τέχνη and perception in Plato’s Theaetetus
  • 12.20-13.00: Francesca Eustacchi: Scienza non è altro che percezione (Tht. 151e2-3): sul ruolo della percezione nel processo conoscitivo

 

Parallel Session 3: Flux, Buddhism and Esoteric Philosophy (Salón de Grados) – Chair: Raúl Gutiérrez

  • 11.40-12.20: Michael Griffin: The flux doctrine of Theaetetus 155d-160e and early Buddhist abhidharma analysis
  • 12.20-13.00: Leo Trotz-Liboff: Esoteric Philosophy in Plato’s Theaetetus: 152c8-e9; 155e3-156c5 37

 

Parallel Session 4: Plato’s Homer/The Wax Tablet (Seminario 217) – Chair: Irmgard Männlein

  • 11.40-12.20: Giovanni Trovato: Rotating heavens: Homer and the World Soul in Theaetetus 153c-d
  • 12.20-13.00: Ludovica Medaglia: A model designed to be inadequate: the Waxen Block in Plato’s Theaetetus (191a8-196c7)

 

13.00-14.15 Lunch

 

Parallel Session 5 (Paraninfo) Parmenides behind the Curtain – Chair: Kristian Larsen

  • 14.20-15.00: Dougal Blyth: Parmenidean Terms, Reason and Judgment at Theaetetus 183c-187a
  • 15.00-15.40: Denis Walter: The koina (185a–186a) and Socrates’ Dream (201e–206b) in Light of the Second Part of the Parmenides

 

Parallel Session 6: On Δύναμις and Inquiry (Salón de Grados) – Chair: Arnaud Macé

  • 14.20-15.00: Carolina Araujo: Power as the mark of generation in the Theaetetus
  • 15.00-15.40: Diego Zucca: Self-Knowledge and The Paradox of Inquiry in Plato’s Theaetetus
  • Parallel Session 7: Maieutics (Sala de Juntas): – Chair: Chloe Balla
  • 14.20-15.00: Laura Candiotto: The Embodiment of Maieutics
  • 15.00-15.40: Zara Amdur, Phaenarete’s Midwifery (Theaetetus 149a-151d)

 

Parallel Session 8: The Philosopher (Seminario 217) – Chair: Jorge Cano

  • 14.20-15.00: Julia Pfefferkorn: The Philosopher’s Freedom (Tht. 172c8-173c6, 175d7- 176a2)
  • 15.00-15.40: Marta Mascia-Bernat Torres: The portrayal of the philosopher in the central digression of the Theaetetus: mathematical education and philosophical political commitment (173 b – 175 b)

 

15.40-16.00: Short Coffee Break

 

Parallel Session 9: Tà koiná (Paraninfo) – Chair: Claudia Mársico

  • 16.00-16.40: Lloyd Gerson: Tà koiná
  • 16.40-17.20: Francisco Gonzalez: Thinking of Common Characters in Plato’s Theaetetus 184-186 and the Aristotelian Reply

 

Parallel Session 10: On Secret Doctrines (Sala de Juntas) – Chair: Miquel Solans

  • 16.00-16.40: Manuela Rondón Triana: The Two Secret Doctrines of the Theaetetus (153d-160e, 181c-186e)
  • 16.40-17.20: Richard Parry: Causes and the Secret Doctrine: Theaetetus 156a-e

 

Parallel Session 11: Which Protagoras?/Protagoras Refuted? (Salón de Grados) – Chair: Francesca Pentassuglio

  • 16.00-16.40: Michele Corradi: “Se all’improvviso spuntasse fuori qui emergendo fino al collo…” (171d): lo spettro del sofista tra Protagora e Teeteto
  • 16.40-17.20: Jenny Strandberg: How to Refute a Protagorean: Negotiating a Relativist and an Infallibilist Reading of the Peritrope Passage in the Theaetetus (170a-171c)

 

Parallel Session 12: Socrates’s Protagoras/Protagoras Refuted? (Seminario 217) – Chair: André Rehbinder

  • 16.00-16.40: Mateo Duque: Imitation (Mimēsis) as the Cleverest Form of Criticism: Socrates’ “Protagoras” in the Theaetetus (166a2–168c2)
  • 16.40-17.20: Luca Pitteloud: Le relativisme se réfute-t-il lui-même ? Théétète 171a-b

 

 

17.30-18.30: Plenary Session 3  – Chair: Rafael Ferber

  • Barbara Sattler: Mathematical knowledge in Plato’s Theaetetus

 

18.35 BUS SERVICE to the Residence of the Ambassador of Greece
Miraflores 15, Madrid
ONLY FOR FULL REGISTERED SPEAKERS

19.00-20.30: Reception at the Residence of the Ambassador of Greece

(Please bring your Symposium Badge on)

 

        20.30: Bus Service to the City Centre:

Bus 1: Stops at Hotel 4C Bravo Murillo and at Hotel Petit Palu, final destination: Gran Via-Fuencarral.

Bus 2: To Moncloa Station (Connections to metro, buses and taxis).

Wednesday, May 7

 

 

9.00-10.00: Plenary Session 1 (Paraninfo): – Chair: Arnaud Macé

  • Anne Balansard: La digression du Théétète: la dernière réfutation de Protagoras

 

10.00-11.00: Plenary Session 2 (Paraninfo) – Chair: Debra Nails

  • Mi-Kyoung (Mitzi) Lee: What Plato learned from Protagoras

 

 

11.00-11.30: Coffee Break

 

 

Parallel Session 1:  Maieutics (Paraninfo) – Chair: Irmgard Männlein

  • 11.30-12.10: Mario Regali: La metafora del parto nel Teeteto (149a-152a) e il philosophos della Repubblica (VI 490a-b): aporia, maieutica e sophia nella caratterizzazione di Socrate
  • 12.10-12.50: Alessandro Stavrou: Contextualizing Midwifery: Theaetetus 149a-151d

 

Parallel Session 2: On Free Time/Radical Flux (Sala de Juntas) – Chair: Anna Motta

  • 11.30-12.10: Dino de Sanctis: Proteggere il giusto tempo della φιλοσοφία: l’elogio della σχολή nel Teeteto (172d4-175b7)
  • 12.11.10-12.50: Max Bergamo: Heraclitus’ Theory of the Opposites in the Theaetetus

 

Parallel Session 3: Flux vs. Natures (Salón de Grados) – Chair: Richard Parry

  • 11.30-12.10: Andrew Griffin: What Must the Materialists not Overhear and Why? A Reading of Theaetetus 151e-184b
  • 12.10-12.50: Akira Kawashima: “Everywhere Seeking the Entire Nature of Each Whole of the Beings”: an Incarnate Philosopher at Work in the “Digression” of Plato’s Theaetetus

 

Parallel Session 4: The Jury (Seminario 217) – Chair: Thomas Tuozzo

  • 11.30-12.10: Cesare Simone Astorino: Knowledge and Belief: The Example of the Jury (201a-c)
  • 12.10-12.50: Vilius Bartninkas: The Jury Passage at Theaetetus 201a-c: A Pragmatic Solution

 

12.50-13.10: Plenary Award Ceremony: Cornelia de Vogel Prize (39 years after her death) (Paraninfo)

 

13.10-14.15:  Lunch

 

Free Afternoon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday, May 8

 

9.00-10.00: Plenary Session 1 (Paraninfo) – Chair: Ed Halper

  • Mary Margaret Mc Cabe: How to do things with birds

 

10.00-11.00: Plenary Session 2 (Paraninfo) – Chair: Elisabetta Cattanei

  • Laura Marongiu: ‘Catching a Pigeon instead of a Dove? The Import of Mathematical Mistakes in the Aviary (Theaetetus195e1-196b6; 198a4-199b6)

 

11.00-11.30: Coffee Break

 

Parallel Session 1: On Evil and God (Paraninfo) – Chair: Raúl Gutiérrez

  • 11.40-12.20: Vasilis Politis: Evil and the soul in the ‘digression’ of the Theaetetus
  • 12.20-13.00: Rafael Ferber: Assimilation to God” (homoiôsis theô(i)) in Theaetetus 176a9–b2 and Laws 792c4–d5

 

Parallel Session 2:  On Godlikeness (Sala de Juntas) – Chair: Alessandro Stavrou

  • 11.40-12.20: Ikko Tanaka, J.F.: Godlikeness and Justice: Contemplating Divine Standards in Civic Life
  • 12.20-13.00: Piera De Piano: Sulla somiglianza, dell’uomo con il filosofo e del filosofo con dio (143e-144e; 176a-b)

 

Parallel Session 3: On Serious Laughing (Salón de Grados) – Chair: Debra Nails

  • 11.40-12.20: James Clay: Socratic inquiry and the Enslaved Thracian woman of the Theaetetus Digression
  • 12.20-13.00: Marta Jiménez: Who is Laughable and Useless?: Experience of What Matters and the Defense of Philosophy in the Theaetetus Digression (172a1-177c4)

 

Parallel Session 4: On Virtues (Seminario 217) – Chair: David Ebrey

  • 11.40-12.20: Aditi Chaturvedi: The Role of the Digression in Plato’s Theaetetus: Models of Epistemic Virtues and the Social Dimensions of Knowledge
  • 12.14.20-13.00: Federico Petrucci: The Virtue(s) of the ‘Theaetetus’: A Gradualistic Interpretation of the ‘Digression’ (172c3-177c2) 35

 

13.00-14.15 Lunch

 

Parallel Session 5: Plato’s Evolution? (Paraninfo) – Chair: Raúl Gutiérrez

  • 20-15.00: Ivana Costa: Indicios del Platón post-socrático en la Digresión (172c-177c)
  • 15.00-15.40: Flavia Palmieri: ἐπιστήμη and αἴσθησις: From Plato’s Theaetetus to the Old Academy

 

Parallel Session 6: Heraclitus/Empirical Knowledge (Sala de Juntas): Chair: Julia Pfefferkorn

  • 14.20-15.00: Paolo Gigli: Socrates’ rejection of Heracliteanism: A step-by-step analysis of Tht. 182c3-183a8
  • 15.00-15.40: Beatrice Lienemann: Empirical and non-empirical knowledge in the Theaetetus (184b4-187a1)

 

Parallel Session 7: On the Achievements of Knowledge (Salón de Grados) – Chair: Manfred Kraus

  • 14.20-15.00: Guus Eelink: Thought and the Achievements of Knowledge (Theaetetus 184-186): on Attaining Being and Truth
  • 15.00-15.40: Colin C. Smith: Being as Koinon: Theaetetus 185a-186e

 

Parallel Session 8: The Theaetetus and other Eleatic Dialogues (Seminario 217)-  Chair: Gabriele Cornelli

  • 14.20-15.00: Miquel Solans Blasco: La figura del filósofo entre el Teeteto y el Sofista
  • 15.00-15.40: William Altman: The Theaetetus and Plato’s Trilogy

 

 

15.40-16.00: Short Coffee Break

 

Parallel Session 9: On Opinion and Persuasion (Paraninfo)

Chair: Mary-Louise Gill

  • 16.00-16.40: Thomas Tuozzo: True Opinion in the Theaetetus
  • 16.40-17.20: Samuel Meister: Socrates against Knowledge by Persuasion (Theaetetus 200d5–201c6)

 

Parallel Session 10: The Wax Tablet Model (Salón de Grados) – Chair: Federico Petrucci

  • 16.00-16.40: Marianna Nardi: Fra epistemologia e fiction: il πλάσμα nella cera
  • 16.40-17.20: Emma Ponce: The Wax Heart of the Soul in the Theaetetus, 194c-195a: A Critique of Empedocles’ Empiricism

 

Parallel Session 11: The Aviary Model (Sala de Juntas) – Chair: Ikko Tanaka

  • 16.00-16.40: Francesca Pentassuglio: What Model(s) of Paideia in the Theaetetus? The Aviary and the ‘Transmissive’ Way of Teaching (198a10–b6)
  • 16.40-17.20: Carlos Carvalhar: The aviary metaphor as an Egyptian imagery

 

Parallel Session 12: The Third Definition (Seminario 217) – Chair: Anna Motta

  • 16.00-16.40: Alex Montag: Socrates’ Investigation of Logos: Theaetetus 201d-210c
  • 16.40-17.20: Liu Kezhou: Plato and Structuralist Mereology: Theaetetus 201c-210b

 

17.30-18.15: European Research Council: Grant Schemes: (Elisabetta Cattanei) Plenary Info Session: Second Part (Paraninfo)

 

18.15-19.45: General Assembly of the IPS (only Members: Paraninfo) Agenda:

  • Open Access to the Proceedings of the IPS.
  • XVI Sympositum Platonicum (2031)
  • Renewal of Authorities: Ex Comm and Editorial Comm.
  • Sociedad Platónica Íbero-Americana.
  • Welcome to the new President: Raúl Gutiérrez.

 

20.00-20.30: Walking Tour to the ‘Museo del Traje’ for Closing Dinner

(23 min: 1,7 kms) NB: If you need a taxi, please book it in advance by your own. (Please bring your Symposium Badge on)

 

20.30-22.30: Closing Dinner

22.30: Bus Service 1:  to Hotel 4c Bravo Murillo/Petit Palu Fuencarral/Gran Via-Fuencarral

  • Bus Service 2: to Moncloa Station (Connections to metro, buses and taxis).

 

Friday, May 9

 

9.00-10.00: Plenary Session 1 (Paraninfo) – Chair: Mary-Louise Gill

  • Cornelia de Vogel Lecturer (in-person): Ronald Polansky (and Kelsey Ward): The Prospect of Definitive Interpretation of the Theaetetus

 

10.00-11.00: Plenary Session 2 (Paraninfo) – Chair: Emanuelle Maffi

  • Franco Trabattoni: Sul Significato Complessivo del Teeteto

 

11.00-11.30: Coffee Break

 

Parallel Session 1: On Logos in the Third Definition (Paraninfo) – Chair: Laura Marongiu

  • 11.40-12.20: Lin Li: The third account of logos in the Theaetetus 208c4-210b3 in light of Platonic division and collection
  • 12.20-13.00: Jeremy Bredin: Antisthenes and the meaning of λόγος in the third definition of the Theaetetus

 

Parallel Session 2: On Dreaming and Knowledge (Sala de Juntas) – Chair: Carolina Araujo

  • 11.40-12.20: Manfred Kraus: Dreams Are Ten a Penny? Socrates’ Dream (Tht. 201-202) Logos and Doxa
  • 12.20-13.00: I-Kai Jeng: Wisdom as Knowledge of Problem-Solving: Theaetetus 201c7-206b12

 

Parallel Session 3: On Names (Seminario 217) – Chair: Michele Corradi

  • 11.40-12.20: Anna Pavani: Names in the Theaetetus
  • 12.20-13.00: Marco Donato: Prodico nelTeeteto

 

Parallel Session 4: On the Soul (Salón de Grados) – Chair: Anne Balansard

  • 11.40-12.20: Arnaud Macé: La nature des actes et des choses dans le Théétète(156a-d ; 174a-175a ; 203a-204a)
  • 12.20-13.00: David Ebrey: The Theaetetus on the soul’s proper activity

13.00-14.15 Lunch

 

Parallel Session 5: The Third Definition (Paraninfo) – Chair: Barbara Sattler

  • 14.20-15.00: Emanuele Maffi: Why is the Theaetetus a response to the Meno? Some reflections on the connection between Theaetetus 201d-210d and Meno 97e2-98b5

 

Parallel Session 6: The Anonymous (Salón de Grados) – Chair: Harold Tarrant

  • 14.20-15.00: Simonas Baliukonis: The Theaetetus’ Ethical Digression according to the Anonymous
  • 15.00-15.40: Anna Motta: Come leggere il Teeteto: il prologo del Commento Anonimo al Teeteto

 

Parallel Session 7:  Plato, Proclus and Damascious (Sala de Juntas): – Chair: Mario Regali

  • 14.20-15.00: Claudia Gianturco: Atheon illud et tenebrosum, quod et in Theetito Socrates ostendit: la centralità e il significato della ricezione procliana di Theaet. 176 a 5-e 5 nel De Malorum Subsistentia (48, 9-26)
  • 15.00-15.40: José María Zamora: Las gestaciones aporéticas en Damascio

 

15.40-16.00: Short Coffee Break

 

Parallel Session 9: The paradox of not knowing what we know (Paraninfo): – Chair: José María Zamora

  • 16.00-16.40: Miguel García Baró: La imposibilidad del conocimiento que ya poseemos

 

Parallel Session 10: Plato and the Hermetica (Sala de Juntas) – Chair: Sonsoles Costero Quiroga

  • 16.00-16.40: Jorge Cano Cuenca: La recepción de la huida del mundo (Teeteto 176a-177c) en los Hermetica

 

Parallel Session 11: Plato and Wittgenstein (Salón de Grados) – Chair: Diego Zucca

  • 16.00-16.40: Chiara Salamone: Sums, Wholes and Analysis in Theaetet. 203c-205e and in Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations

 

 

16.45-17.45: Closing Plenary Session (Paraninfo): – Chair: Anne Balansard

  • Harold Tarrant: Plato, Papyri and Secret Doctrine

 

17.45-19.00: Farewell Reception at the Faculty of Philosophy (Cafetería de Profesores)

 

19.00-20.00: Chryssa Georganta: Proagon (Paraninfo):

 

“The Incredible Story of Desperate Iris

and her Comforting Father Thaumas”

 

 

Our Students:

 

Iris: Carolina Zurro

Thaumas: Miguel Cuenca

Socrates: Pedro Villarino

Theodorus: Juan Carlos Esquivel

Theaetetus: Eki Virto