Friday, October 5
3:00pm
Welcome
3:10pm
Session 1:"Symphonic and Agonistic
Conceptions of Virtue in Plato's Laws"
Speaker:
Susan Sauvé Meyer
University of Pennsylvania
Chair:
Ralph Rosen
University of Pennsylvania
4:30pm
KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
Julia Annas
Regents Professor of Philosophy
University of Arizona
"Soul and State: George Grote,
Charles Kahn, and Plato's Later Thought"
Chair:
Verity Harte
Yale University
Saturday, October 6
10:00am
Session 2: "The Hypothetical Method and the Arguments
for the Immortality of the Soul in the Phaedo"
Speaker: Vassilis Karasmanis
National Technical University of Athens
Chair: to be confirmed
[invited Aryeh Kosman, Haverford College]
11:30am
Session 3: "Plato's Conceptions of Truth and Falsity"
Speaker: David Wolfsdorf, Temple University
Chair: Daniel Muñoz-Hutchinson, St. Olaf's College
3:00pm
Session 4: "Knowing and Acting in Plato's Middle Period"
Speaker: Christopher Bobonich, Stanford University
Chair: Paul Woodruff, University of Texas, Austin
4:30pm
Session 5: "Is Schleiermacher the founding
father of modern Platonic studies? Ethics, Hermeneutics and Plato in Germany at the beginning of the XIXth Century"
Speaker: André Laks, Université de Paris–Sorbonne
Chair: Alexander Nehamas, Princeton University
6:00pm
Presentation to Charles Kahnof festschrift volume,
Presocratics and Plato (Parmenides Publishing, 2012).
Chair: Alexander Mourelatos
University of Texas, Austin
Presentation: Arnold Hermann, Hyele Institute
Remarks: Charles Kahn, University of Pennsylvania