XIV Symposium Platonicum. Plato’s Theaetetus / Call for papers

  Call for papers XIV Symposium Platonicum Plato’s Theaetetus Madrid, May 5th-9th (in person)      May 19th-21st (online) 2025 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 XIV Symposium Platonicum: Plato’s Theaetetus. The Symposium will take place in two separate modalities: In Person: May 5–9, 2025, at the Facultad de Filosofía (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) and Online: May 19-21, 2025, from the Facultad de Humanidades (Universidad Carlos III, Madrid). Presentation length: As we want to encourage discussion, speakers will be given double time on this occasion. Papers should be suitable for 40-minute presentations (suggestion: 20 minutes of reading plus 20 minutes of discussion). Authors may be asked to expand their papers to be presented at one of the 1- hour plenary sessions. Abstracts We welcome abstracts from all IPS members, full and associate. If you [...]

Registration is now open for Symposium Platonicum XIII: Plato’s Sophist, in Athens, GA, USA (Jul. 18-22, 2022)

Symposium Platonicum XIII Plato’s Sophist Athens, Georgia, USA July 18-22, 2022 Registration is now open. The International Plato Society organizes a symposium on a single Platonic dialogue every three years. We are pleased to announce the XIII Symposium Platonicum: Plato’s Sophist. The Symposium will take place July 18–22, 2022, at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, USA. Submissions on any aspect of the dialogue, including its Presocratic sources and later reception, will be considered. Plato’s Sophist was, arguably, the most important Platonic dialogue for mid-20th century philosophy. Anglo-American analytic philosophers looked to it to come to understand Plato’s philosophy of language. Continental philosophers, inspired by Heidegger’s beginning Being and Time with a quotation from the Sophist, looked to the dialogue to wrestle with Plato’s notion of being. Not surprisingly, each group found a rich field from which to pursue their mostly non-overlapping interests. Both sides did agree on [...]

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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 [...]

The VIII Symposium Platonicum

The VIII Symposium Platonicum, on the topic of Plato’s Philebus, was held in Dublin from July 23 – 28, 2007, under the auspices of the Dublin Centre for the Study of the Platonic Tradition, based in Trinity College, Dublin, but participated in also by colleagues from the Departments of Philosophy and Classics of University College Dublin, the National University of Ireland – Maynooth, and All Hallows College, Dublin. We are most grateful for the input of colleagues from all of these institutions, as well as for institutional support from the first two, specifically from the Trinity Association and Trust, the Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies Programme, and Department of Philosophy in TCD, and the Office of the Dean of Research and the Department of Philosophy in UCD. The Organising Committee comprised : John Cleary (NUI-M) ; John Dillon (TCD) ; Brendan O’Byrne (TCD) ; Patrick Quinn (All Hallows) ; Fran O’Rourke (UCD) ; Vasilis Politis (TCD). [...]

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The VII Symposium Platonicum

The VII Symposium Platonicum, on the Gorgias and the Meno, was held, as scheduled, in Würzburg, from 26 to 31 of July 2004, under the auspices of Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz and Universität Würzburg. More than two hundred scholars participated from all continents and many listeners from the various Universities of Germany. The opening C. J. de Vogel lecture was given by Terry Penner, in the Fürstensaal of the Residence. The second lecture, on the next day, was given by Harold Tarrant, in memory of Matthias Baltes and in the presence of Mrs. Baltes as guest of the Symposium. Selection of the papers to be read at the Symposium posed a problem to the Executive Committee, faced with a wealth of good proposals. The papers presented gave rise to lively discussions within and without the lecture halls. The society was honoured by the [...]

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The VI Symposium Platonicum

The Sixth Symposium Platonicum was held in Jerusalem, last August, on the Laws. First of all, I woud like to thank on behalf of all the members of the TPS the outgoing President, Prof. Samuel Scolnicov, for all he did to keep the society running smoothly during the Triennium, for the warm hospitaliy, we enjoyed in Jerusalem and for the Symposium itself, so well organised and so stimulating. As our host, Prof. Scolnicov set standards which will not be easy to meet again. Prof. Scolnicov is now in charge of editing the volume of selected papers arising from the Symposum to be published as usual by Academie Verlag. The Executive Committee Elections for the Executive Committee : Professor Maurizio Migliori (Macerata), Professor Francisco Bravo (Caracas) and Professor Noburu Notomi (Tokyo) were elected to the Executive Committee, replacing, respectively, Professor Matthias Baltes (Miinster), Professor Nicole Ooms (Mexico) and Professor Tarrant (Newcastle, NSW) [...]

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The V Symposium Platonicum

This Symposium took place at Trinity College, University of Toronto, August 19-23, 1998. It had as its subject the Charmides, the Lysis and the Euthydemus. Selected papers from the Fifth Symposium will be published in due course as a volume of the International Plato Studies. Main decisions made at the General Assembly, held in Toronto during the Symposium : The financial statement presented by the President, T. M. Robinson, has been approved. It has been likewise confirmed the proposal to hold the Sixth Symposium in Jerusalem in 2001, and Professor Samuel Scolnicov (Univ. of Jerusalem) has been appointed President of the IPS for the triennium 1998-2001 and thereby organizer of the said Symposium. The next Symposium Platonicum will be on the Laws. Professors Christopher Gill (Exeter), Lloyd Gerson (Toronto) and Nicole Ooms (México) were elected to the Executive Committee, replacing, respectively, Professors Giuseppe Cambiano (Torino), G. R. F. Ferrari (Berkeley) and Ute [...]

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