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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

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