Results for the third ed. Conrado Eggers Lan Prize for Best Dissertation, 2018–2021
The International Plato Society is pleased to announce that Julia Pfefferkorn has won the Conrado Eggers Lan Prize for Best Dissertation on Plato for 2018–2021, with her dissertation titled, Platons tanzende Stadt: Moralpsychologie und Chortanz in den Nomoi. The Editorial Committee would also like to recognize the dissertation written by Roberto Granieri, with his dissertation titled, Being as a Kind in Plato’s Sophist. See the announcement post for more information »
For the last, second call for the Conrado Eggers Lan Prize, Evan Glenn Rodriguez won the prize for his 2016 dissertation, Exploring Both Sides: Plato’s New Method for First Principles. See the post for more information »
Symposium Platonicum XIII: Plato’s Sophist
July 18-22, 2022
Athens, Georgia, USA
The International Plato Society organizes a symposium on a single Platonic dialogue every three years. We are pleased to announce the Call for Abstracts for 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. While Analytic philosophers have tended to read the Sophist as a work on the philosophy of language and Continental philosophers have seen the dialogue as an account of Being, these valuable approaches do not exhaust the richness of this complex dialogue. We welcome submissions of high quality from these and all other perspectives.
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