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Symposium Platonicum XII – Plato’s Parmenides – Call for papers

Call for papers - Symposium Platonicum XII Plato’s Parmenides Paris, July 15th-20th 2019 The International Plato Society organizes a symposium on a single Platonic dialogue every three years. We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the XII Symposium Platonicum: Plato’s Parmenides. The Symposium will take place July 15–20, 2019, in Paris. Although the dialogue has been the object of intense scholarly scrutiny, many issues remain to be explored. Submissions on any aspect of the dialogue, including its presocratic sources as well as later reception, will be considered. We also would like to encourage papers that address issues in the dialogue’s second half since it has received relatively less attention. We welcome abstracts from all IPS members, full and associate. If you are not yet a member of the International Plato Society, criteria for membership and information about joining are available at: https://platosociety.org/membership/. Length Papers should be [...]

Olivier RENAUT2020-05-25T10:19:24+00:00Categories: Announcements, Previous Conferences, Symposium Platonicum, Symposium Platonicum XII|

Conrado Eggers Lan Prize – 2nd edition

International Plato Society Best Dissertation on Plato “Conrado Eggers Lan” Prize Call for submissions Conrado Eggers Lan was Ancient Philosophy Professor at the Universities of Buenos Aires, Heidelberg and Autónoma de México (UNAM). Co-founder of the International Plato Society and host of the First Symposium Platonicum held in Mexico City in 1986. In accordance with its mission to promote Platonic studies throughout the world as well as communication between scholars of diverse disciplines working on Plato and the publication of books and series on Plato, the International Plato Society is glad to announce the 2nd edition of the Conrado Eggers Lan Prize for outstanding dissertations in the field of Platonic studies. We invite submissions of dissertations that resulted in the award of the Ph.D. degree between January 1, 2014, and July 31, 2018. The submissions will be judged by a special committee appointed by the IPS Editorial [...]

Olivier RENAUT2018-04-14T13:34:16+00:00Categories: Announcements, Conrado Eggers Lan Prize|

April 20th-22th // “Forming the Soul : Plato and his Opponents” – 2nd Asia Regional Meeting of the IPS

The 2nd Asia Regional Meeting of the International Plato Society International Conference “Forming the Soul: Plato and his Opponents” This conference will be the first academic activity of the International Plato Society taking place in Taiwan (and in the Chinese-speaking world). The conference will be hosted in Chinese Culture University, Taipei, Taiwan, from 20th to 22nd April 2018. More information and the last version of the program are available at https://sites.google.com/view/ips-asia-2018 There will be three invited speeches: Debra Nails (Michigan State University) : Forms and the Psyche Nickolas Pappas (City College and Graduate Center, CUNY) : What Becomes of a Soul: Hope for a Philosophical City in the Myth of Er Noburu Notomi (Tokyo University; IPS ex-president) : Why Soul Matters: Reconsidering the Philosophical Contexts of Plato’s On Soul And the selected papers contributed by scholars from Asia and other regions: [metaphysics & epistemology] Liliana Carolina [...]

Olivier RENAUT2018-04-14T13:19:23+00:00Categories: Announcements, Events, Regional meetings|

May 31st-June 2nd // Platonic Dialectic – Inquiry Into the Nature of Things (Bergen)

Platonic Dialectic – Inquiring Into the Nature of Things May 31st – June 2nd, 2018 Conference under the DICTUM project, University of Bergen, Norway (To attend the conference, please register with Kirsten.Bang@uib.no no later than May 10th) Thursday, May 31st 10.00-10.15 Welcome 10.15-11.15 Vasilis Politis (Trinity College Dublin), Dialectic versus epistemology in regard to Plato 11.15-11.45 Discussion 11.45-13.00 Lunch 13.00-13.45 Evan Rodriguez (Idaho State University), A Long Lost Relative in the Parmenides? Plato’s Family of Dialectical Methods 13.45-14.15 Discussion 14.15-14.30 Break 14.30-15.15 Vivil Valvik Haraldsen (University of Oslo), What does dialectic tell us about reason in the Republic? 15.15-15.45 Discussion 15.45-16.00 Break 16.00-16.45 Pauline Sabrier (Sun Yat-Sen University, Zhuhai campus), The role of the ti esti question in Plato’s Sophist 16.45-17.15 Discussion Friday, June 1st 9.00-10.00 Walter Mesch (Universität Münster), Between Variety and Unity. How to deal with Plato’s Dialectic? 10.00-10.30 Discussion 10.30-10.45 Break 10.45-11.30 Marilena Vlad (University of Bucharest, Al. Dragomir Institute) Dialectic and Philosophical [...]

Olivier RENAUT2018-04-02T18:09:37+00:00Categories: Announcements, Events|

Call for Papers : Plato’s heritage in historical perspective: intellectual transformations and new research strategies (St. Petersburg, August 28th-30th 2018)

The International Plato Society (IPS) is pleased to announce the colloquium “Plato’s heritage in historical perspective: intellectual transformations and new research strategies”, which will take place in St. Petersburg, Russia on the 28th and 30th of August 2018. The colloquium will serve as a platform for the IPS Executive Committee’s mid-term meeting. The study of Plato’s heritage is a way of diagnosing modernity - in so far as it is made explicit in philosophical discourse. This is precisely why intellectual transformations and new research strategies are relevant themes for both international and Russian Plato studies. We propose the following topics for the colloquium: The history of Plato interpretation as an element of the evolution of European culture. Different periods and tendencies of interpretive programs. Schools of thought and intellectual trends which shaped and determined the study of Plato in the 19th and 20th centuries. The specifics of the study of Plato’s heritage [...]

Olivier RENAUT2020-05-25T10:26:51+00:00Categories: Announcements, Previous Conferences, Regional meetings|

International Symposium : Emotions in Plato (III) 12-13th April 2018 (Paris-Nanterre)

Emotions in Plato III A concluding international conference is to be held in Paris Nanterre in April 2018. Date : Jeudi 12 et vendredi 13 avril 2018 Horaires : Jeudi 12 avril, de 14h00 à 18h ; Vendredi 13 avril, de 10h00 à 18h. Confirmed speakers : Luc Brisson – Paris, CNRS Pia Campeggiani – EURIAS Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study. Laura Candiotto – Marie Curie Research Fellow – University of Edinburgh. Pierre Destrée – Professeur Université Catholique de Louvain. Rachana Kamtekar – Professor – Cornell University – Sage school of Philosophy Lidia Palumbo – Università Federico II di Napoli, and Anna Motta – Freie Universität Berlin. Simon Scott – University of Birmingham Josh Wilburn – Wayne State University Programme Jeudi 12 Avril 2018 Salle de séminaire, Bâtiment W Max Weber Après-midi 14:00-15:00 Laura Candiotto, Epistemic Wonder: the beginning of the enquiry (Theaet. 155d2-4) 15:00-16:00 Lidia Palumbo & Anna Motta, On the desire for drink in Plato [...]

Olivier RENAUT2018-03-19T21:36:59+00:00Categories: Announcements, Events|

III International Plato Spring Seminar The Theaetetus Universidad Carlos III (Madrid) 21-22 May 2018

III International Plato Spring Seminar. The Theaetetus Universidad Carlos III (Madrid) 21-22 May 2018 Participants : Carolina Araujo (Rio de Janeiro) Marcelo Boeri (Santiago de Chile) Michele Curnis (Madrid) Rafael Ferber (Luzern) Franco Ferrari (Salerno) Francisco J. González (Ottawa) Xavier Ibánez (Barcelona) Francisco Lisi (Madrid) Graciela Marcos (Buenos Aires) Claudia Mársico (Buenos Aires) Michel Narcy (Paris) Thomas Robinson (Toronto) Harold Tarrant (Newcastle) Álvaro Vallejo (Granada) Organizer: Beatriz Bossi (beabossi@filos.ucm.es)

Olivier RENAUT2018-03-19T21:23:53+00:00Categories: Announcements, Events|

International Workshop “Plato’s Parmenides in relation to Plato’s other dialogues”

Plato's Parmenides in relation to Plato's other dialogues A workshop organised by the Trinity Department of Philosophy, Trinity Plato Center & Société d'Etudes Platoniciennes Saturday 24 March 2018 (10am-6pm) Evan Rodriguez (Idaho State University) : "More than a reductio : Plato's method in Parmenides and beyond" Wolfgang Mann (Columbia University): "The slogan ouk estin antilegein and the late-learners in Plato's Sophist" David Horan (Trinity Plato Center) : "The One in Plato : Parmenides and Sophist" Vasilis Politis (Trinity College Dublin) : "How, and in what dialogue, does Plato argue for the Parmenides claim that forms are necessary for thought and speech?" Sunday 25 March 2018 (10:30am-3pm) Pauline Sabrier (Sun Yat-Sen University) : "Can Forms have parts and nevertheless remain one ? A comparison between the Sophist and the Parmenides" Jens Kristian Larsen (University of Bergen): "Socrates the Eleatic : on the Eleatic origins of Socrates' art of conversation" All talks will take place in the Trinity Plato Center Seminar room. [...]

Olivier RENAUT2018-03-17T06:23:24+00:00Categories: Announcements, Events|

Just published : Plato Journal / Vol. 17

We are pleased to announce that a new issue of the Plato Journal, the official journal of the International Plato Society (www.platosociety.org), is now available on-line at: http://impactum-journals.uc.pt/platojournal/issue/view/310 Plato Journal is available free access on line and printed on demand by Coimbra University Press. Plato Journal vol. 17 Gabriele Cornelli 125 p. Papers Elenchus, Recollection, and the Method of Hypothesis in the Meno Cristina Ionescu, p. 9-29 La relectura positiva de la tradición poética griega en el Banquete de Platón Lucas Soares, p. 31-50 Le commerce de la vérité: économie et commerce dans les Lois de Platon Etienne Helmer, p. 51-64 Socratic Silence in the Cleitophon Alan Pichanick, p. 65-70 The Form of the Good in Plato’s Timaeus Thanassis Gkatzaras, p. 71-83 Dialectical Epimeleia: Platonic Care of the Soul and Philosophical Cognition James M. Ambury, p. 85-99 Reviews [Review] TRABATTONI, Franco, Essays on Plato’s Epistemology. Ancient and medieval philosophy Nicholas Zucchetti, p. 103-111 [Review] MOORE, Christopher, Socrates and Self-Knowledge Alan Pichanick, p. 113-119 Are you interested [...]

Olivier RENAUT2018-03-17T06:23:35+00:00Categories: Announcements, Just published|

Workshop : Ta Metaxu – Knowing Where to Draw the Line: Intermediates and Dianoia in Plato

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 [...]

Olivier RENAUT2018-02-21T19:36:32+00:00Categories: Announcements, Events|