The IPS at the APA

The International Plato Society is pleased to sponsor sessions at all three meetings of the American Philosophical Association this academic year.  Please come to our sessions if you at these meetings.

Eastern APA, Philadelphia

Wednesday January 8, 2020. 6:30-9:30PM

Republic

Chair:  Debra Nails (Michigan State)

  • Roslyn Weiss (Lehigh University) “Socrates and Thrasymachus on Perfect and Imperfect Injustice”
  • Mary Townsend (St. John’s University [NY]) “Gymnastic Exercise in Plato’s Republic and Parmenides”
  • Kristian Larsen (University of Bergen, Norway) “Seeing Double: Contemplation, Forms, and Action in Plato’s Republic”
  • Renato Matoso (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro) “Objects, Proportions and Clarity in the Divided Line”
  • Richard Parry (Agnes Scott College) “Republic 9: Pleasure, Pain, Calm and the Philosophical Soul”

Central APA  Chicago

February 27, 2020  9:00AM-12:00PM

Socrates

Co-organized by the International Society for Socratic Studies (ISSS)

Chair: Donald Morrison (Rice University)

  • Nicholas D. Smith (Lewis and Clark College)  “Socrates as an Apprentice of Politics in Plato’s Gorgias”
  • Rusty Jones (University of Oklahoma) and Ravi Sharma (Clark University)  “Xenophon’s Socrates on Teaching and Learning”
  • Francesca Pentassuglio (Sapienza University of Rome)  “Socratic Epagoge and the Argument by Analogy: Aeschines on Socratic Method”
  • Dimitri El Murr (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris)  “Eristic, Antilogy, and the Equal Disposition of Men and Women”

Pacific APA  San Francisco

1. Plato’s Late Dialogues:  Methodologies

Thursday April 9,  8:00-10:00 PM

Chair:  Jan Szaif (University of California, Davis)

  • George Rudebusch (University of Northern Arizona) “Philebus 24a-26d: Peras and Apeiron as Scales in Measure Theory”
  • Xin Liu  (Nanjing University) “On Diairesis and Chiasmus: Plato’s Method of Division in the Statesman“
  • Gabriele Cornelli (Universidade de Brasília) “A Very Beautiful Path: Unity and Multiplicity in Plato’s Philebus“

2. Plato’s Late Dialogues:  Metaphysics 

Saturday  April 11,  6:00-8:00PM

Chair: Georgia Mouroutsou (University of Western Ontario)

  • Tom Tuozzo  (University of Kansas) “The Being of the One that is not: Making Sense of Deduction Five in Plato’s  Parmenides“
  • Michael J Augustin (Purdue),  “Self-Participation” (Sophist)
  • Silvia De Bianchi (Autonomous University of Barcelona) “Acting at the Boundary: Timeless Agency and Cosmology in the Timaeus“