May 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, [...]