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, Al.  Dragomir  Institute) Dialectic and Philosophical Divination
  • 11.30-12.00 Discussion 12.00-13.00 Lunch
  • 13.00-13.45 Kristian Larsen (University of Bergen), Defining rhetoric dialectically – in defense of Socratic divisions in Plato’s Gorgias
  • 13.45-14.15 Discussion 14.15-14.30 Break
  • 14.30-15.15 Cristina Ionescu (The Catholic University of America), The Philosopher’s Dialectical Art in the Phaedrus: What are the Objects that we Collect and Divide?
  • 15.15-15.45 Discussion 15.45-16.00 Break
  • 16.00-16.45 Justin Vlasits (Eberhard- Karls Universität Tübingen), Plato’s Dialectical Methods
  • 16.45-17.15 Discussion 19.30 Conference dinner

 

Saturday, June 2nd

  • 9.30-10.30 Pauliina Remes (Uppsala University), Plotinus on Dialectic: Ennead I.3
  • 10.30-11.00 Discussion
  • 11.00-11.15 Break
  • 11.15-12.00 Emily Austin (Wake Forest College), The Special Object of Dialectic in Plato’s Charmides and Euthydemus
  • 12.00-12.30 Discussion
  • 12.30-14.00 Lunch/Conference meeting
  • 14.00-14.45 Naoya Iwata (University of Oxford), Collection and Division and the Method of Hippocrates in Plato’s Phaedrus
  • 14.45-15.15 Discussion
  • 15.15-15.30 Goodbye

 

For additional information on DICTUM, see http://www.uib.no/en/rg/antikkfi/108976/dictum-–-divide-and-collect-understanding-method-plato.

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 750263