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March 2018
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 [...]
Find out morePlato’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. Lower level, 1937 Reading room, Front Square, Trinity [...]
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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 and the Platonist [...]
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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) Program MONDAY MAY 21 9.45-10.00: Welcome: Francisco Lisi – Beatriz Bossi 10.00-11.15: Session 1: Chair: Franco Ferrari 10.00-10.45: Michel Narcy: «Socrates in the Theaetetus: old and new». 10.45-11.15: Francisco Lisi: “Heraclitus, Protagoras and Plato (Theaetetus 155d1-160e4)”. 11.15-11.45: COFFEE BREAK 11.45-13.15: Session 2: Chair: Harold Tarrant 11.45-12.30: Graciela Marcos: “On Plato’s methodological strategy in Theaetetus 151d-186e. Between hypothesis and self-refutation”. 12.30-13.15: Beatriz Bossi: “On Socrates’ dealing with Theaetetus’ first claim about knowledge”. 13.15- 14.30: LUNCH 14.30-15.45: Session 3: Chair: Graciela Marcos 14.30-15.00: Fernando Monedero: “The virtue [...]
Find out moreAtelier de la Société d’Études Platoniciennes 2018 // SEP International Workshop 2018 En partenariat avec le Trinity Department of Philosophy et le Trinity Plato Centre (Dublin) La cosmologie dans le Parménide de Platon Cosmology in Plato’s Parmenides Mardi 29 & Mercredi 30 mai 2018, à l'École Normale Supérieure, 29 rue d’Ulm, 75005 Paris, Salle Paul Langevin Programme Mardi 29 mai 9:00-10:00 : Luc Brisson (CNRS, Paris) : Le Poème de Parménide et la seconde partie du Parménide de Platon. 10:00-11:00: Gabrièle Wersinger Taylor (Université de Reims) : Le Parménide et la fin du kosmos 11:00-11:30 : Pause 11:30-12:30 : Roberto Granieri (University of Toronto) : Cosmic Unity and Senses of Being in the Parmenides 14:00-15:00 : Darren Gardner (New School for Social Research, Groningen) : The “Many” and the Question of Cosmos: The Significance of Hypothesis 3 in Plato’s Parmenides 15:00-16:00 : Georgia Mouroutsou (King’s and Western Canada, London Ontario): Parm. [...]
Find out moreMay 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, [...]
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DATE(S) du 4 juin 2018 au 6 juin 2018 LIEU(X) Site CESR (Centre d'Etudes Supérieures de la Renaissance) Nouvelle école thématique du CNRS organisée par Fosca Mariani Zini (responsable scientifique) Comité d’organisation : Joël Biard, Fosca Mariani Zini Intervenants : Francesca Alberti, Joël Biard, Donatella Coppini, Pierre Caye, Giulio d’Onofrio, Thomas Leinkauf, Fosca Mariani Zini, Meryem Sebti, Christian Trottmann DR08 Centre Limousin Poitou-Charentes - CNRS Conseillère formation en charge de l’École : Mme Jeanine Daubin Résumé : L’admirable renouveau, aussi bien en France qu’en Europe, des études sur le platonisme et le néoplatonisme grec et hellénistique a révélé par contraste la lacune des recherches sur le néoplatonisme médiéval et renaissant. Il est vrai que le Moyen Âge a connu indirectement le platonisme, mais l’historiographie a montré sa présence constante et multiple. En effet, le platonisme fut un phénomène cosmopolite et de longue durée empruntant plusieurs chemins : d’Athènes, à Pergame, à Bagdad, jusqu’à Tolède [...]
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Plato’s Gorgias - XIIth Symposium Platonicum Pragense Prague, Villa Lanna Praha 6, V Sadech 1 - November 13–15, 2019 Wednesday, 13th of November 14:00–15:00 : Kryštof Boháček (Prague) | Ethical or aesthetic criterion in Gorg. 447a-448e and 523a-527e? Two underlying concepts of kosmos 15:15–16:15 : Vladimír Mikeš (Prague) | Is ethically neutral rhetoric (460c-461a) a real option for Plato and if not why? 17:30–19:00 : Public Key Note Lecture: Michael Erler (Würzburg) | Socrates and the weakness of the strong man: The rhetoric of the true politician Thursday, 14th of November 09:30–10:30 : Panos Dimas (Oslo) | Justice, happiness and desire in the Gorgias 10:45–11:45 : Tushar Irani (Middletown) | Socrates’ great speech in the Gorgias 12:00–13:00 : Naly Thaler (Jerusalem) | Socrates and Callicles on pleasure and intrinsic value 15:00–16:00 : Marie-Pierre Noël (Paris) | De l’Amphion d’Euripide au Socrate de Platon: la construction de l’héroïsme philosophique dans [...]
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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 [...]
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The IPS will hold the two sessions originally scheduled for the American Philosophical Association Pacific Division virtually on Zoom. (See the general announcement post for more background.) If you would like to join the session, please register by sending an email to president@platosociety.org, and you will receive an invitation. Chair: Georgia Mouroutsou (University of Western Ontario) Schedule of speakers: 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"
Find out moreThe IPS will hold the two sessions originally scheduled for the American Philosophical Association Pacific Division virtually on Zoom. (See the general announcement post for more background.) If you would like to join the session, please register by sending an email to president@platosociety.org, and you will receive an invitation. Chair: Jan Szaif (University of California, Davis) Schedule of speakers: Gabriele Cornelli (Universidade de Brasília), "A Very Beautiful Path: Unity and Multiplicity in Plato's Philebus" Xin Liu (Nanjing University), "On Diairesis and Chiasmus: Plato's Method of Division in the Statesman" George Rudebusch (University of Northern Arizona), “Philebus 24a-26d: Peras and Apeiron as Scales in Measure Theory”
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