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. Lower level, 1937 Reading room, Front Square, Trinity College, Dublin

For further details, please contact plato@tcd.ie