Ta Metaxu – Knowing Where to Draw the Line: Intermediates and Dianoia in Plato
Florida Atlantic University
Harriet Wilkes Honors College
March 9-10
Friday, March 9th
Session 1 11-11:50
Henry Mendell (California State University, LA), “Betwixt and Between: Plato on Mathematics”
Lunch 12-1
Session 2 1-1:50
Andrew Payne (St. Joseph’s University), “Definition, Scientific Demonstration and Mathematical Intermediates”
Session 3 2-2:50,
Emily Katz (Michigan State University), “Aristotle on Why Platonists Need Intermediates”
Session 4 3-3:50
Sophia Stone (Lynn University), “Monas and Psuchē in the Phaedo”
Coffee Break 3:50-4:10
Session 5 4:10-5
Oliver Renaut (Université Paris Nanterre), “In What Sense are Ethical Intermediates Related to Epistemological Intermediates?”
Session 6 5:10-6
Lloyd P. Gerson (University of Toronto), “What are the Objects of Dianoia?”
Dinner Food Trucks or Dinner Reservations TBD
Saturday, March 10th
Breakfast 9-10
Session 1 10-10:50
Lee Franklin (Franklin & Marshall College), “Intermediates as Phantasmata”
Session 2 11-11:50
Scott Olsen (Central Florida), “Golden Proportional Symmetry & the Divided Line: Solving the Platonic Puzzles in One Fell Swoop—including the Sayre Challenge”
Session 3 12-12:50
Nicholas D. Smith (Lewis & Clark University), “Unclarity and Intermediates in Plato’s Discussions of Clarity in the Republic”
Lunch 12:50-1:50
Session 4 2-2:50
Andrew German (Ben Guirion Univeristy of Negev), “Through Intermediates to Eidetic Numbers: Plato on the Limits of Discursive Thought
Session 5 3-3:50
Brian Schwartz (Carthage College), “That the Phenomena May Be Saved—Astronomy as an Intermediary in Plato’s Republic and Timaeus”
Coffee Break 3:50-4:10
Session 6 4:10-5
Olga Lylanda-Geller (Purdue University), “To Be or Not To Be? Plato’s ‘Intermediates’ and the Stoic ‘Lekta’
Session 7 5:10-6
William Altman (Independent), “In Defense of the Intermediates”
Dinner Reservations