The IPS will hold the two sessions originally scheduled for the American Philosophical Association Pacific Division virtually on Zoom. Although the entire meeting of the APA was cancelled, we have managed to find times when all the participants in each session could be present at their session. Because we are truly an international organization and because reason cannot fully overcome necessity, many of our members around the world will not be able to participate in one or both sessions. We must also limit the number of participants to make the Zoom group manageable. If you would like to join the session, please register by sending an email to president@platosociety.org, and you will receive an invitation. Here is the schedule:

I. Plato’s Late Dialogues: Metaphysics
Wednesday, June 24, 2020 at 1:00-3:00PM EDT (=GMT-4)

Chair: Georgia Mouroutsou (University of Western Ontario)

  1. Tom Tuozzo (University of Kansas), “The Being of the One that is not: Making Sense of Deduction Five in Plato’s Parmenides“
  2. Michael J. Augustin (Purdue), “Self-Participation” (Sophist)
  3. Silvia De Bianchi (Autonomous University of Barcelona), “Acting at the Boundary: Timeless Agency and Cosmology in the Timaeus“

II. Plato’s Late Dialogues: Methodologies
Tuesday, June 30, 2020 at 8:00-10:00PM EDT (=GMT-4)

Chair: Jan Szaif (University of California, Davis)

  1. Gabriele Cornelli (Universidade de Brasília), “A Very Beautiful Path: Unity and Multiplicity in Plato’s Philebus“
  2. Xin Liu (Nanjing University), “On Diairesis and Chiasmus: Plato’s Method of Division in the Statesman“
  3. George Rudebusch (University of Northern Arizona), “Philebus 24a-26d: Peras and Apeiron as Scales in Measure Theory”

[Update, Jul. 10] See the recorded session from the June 30 session, here: