Conference

    03—07 June 2009
    Delphi, Greece


    Presocratics and Plato
    Festschrift Symposium in Honor of
    Charles H. Kahn

    Organized and sponsored by
    HYELE Institute for Comparative Studies, and Starcom AG,
    together with Vassilis Karasmanis,
    in collaboration with Parmenides Publishing,
    endorsed by IPS, the International Plato Society,
    and the Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences,
    University of Pennsylvania


    Chairs

    Vassilis Karasmanis
    Orna Harari
    Tony Long
    Alexander P.D. Mourelatos
    Richard Patterson
    David Sedley
    Gerhard Seel
    Dorothea Frede
    Arnold Hermann


    Speakers


    Sarah Broadie—
    "Fifth-Century Bugbears in the
    Timaeus"

    Lesley Brown—
    "Plato on not-being: some troublesome texts"

    Tomás Calvo—
    "The Method of Hypotheses and its connection to
    the Division and Collection Strategies"

    Diskin Clay—
    "The New Empedocles and Plato:
    The Metempsychosis of the Poet"

    Dorothea Frede—
    "Forms, Functions, and Structure in Plato"

    Arnold Hermann—
    "Plato's Eleatic Challenge
    and the Problem of Self-predication in the Parmenides"

    Carl Huffman—
    "Aristoxenus' Account of Pythagoras"

    Enrique Hülsz—
    "Heraclitus on the Sun"

    Paul Kalligas—
    "From being an image to being what-is-not"

    Vassilis Karasmanis—
    "Dialectic and the second part of Plato's
    Parmenides"

    Aryeh Kosman—
    "Self-control and self-knowledge in Plato's
    Charmides"

    Tony Long—
    "Slavery as philosophical metaphor
    in Plato and Xenophon"

    Susan Sauvé Meyer—
    "The Psychologies in Plato's
    Laws"

    Alexander P. D. Mourelatos—
    "The Eleaticism of the Eleatics"

    Satoshi Ogihara—
    "False Pleasures in the Philebus"

    Richard Patterson—
    "Word and Image in Platonic Myth: the Case of
    Laws X"

    Christopher J. Rowe—
    "Socrates in Plato's
    Laws"

    David Sedley—
    "Plato's Theory of Change (
    Phaedo 70-71)"



    Additional Contributors


    Julia Annas—
    "Virtue in later Plato"

    John Dillon—
    "Will the real Critias please stand up?"

    D. M. Hutchinson—
    "Sympathy, Awareness, and Belonging
    to Oneself in Plotinus"

    Richard McKirahan
    —
    "Socratic Egoism and the Happiness of Others"


    Richard Sorabji—
    "Conscience in Plato and Platonism"



    Participants:



    Saati Alireza
    Anna Aravantinou
    Bernardo Berruecos
    Sylvana Chrysakopoulou
    Laura Dobler
    Alfred Dunshirn
    Michael Ferejohn
    Edna B. Foa
    Michelle A. Foa
    Yael Foa
    Olive Forbes
    Cornelia Frieden
    Jutta Geisenberger
    Matyas Havrda
    Sara Hermann
    Atle Sperre Hermansen
    Sandro Hodosy
    Evan Kahn-Rice
    Gabriel Kahn-Rice
    Jay Kahn-Rice
    Jesse Kahn-Rice
    Maria Kahn-Rice
    George Karamanolis
    Maria Koutsafti
    Maria Liatsi
    Constantin Macris
    Matthew Meyer
    Meagann Parson
    Dora Polihronopoulou
    Petia Prisadnikova
    Martha Rainbolt
    Maria Teresa Reyes
    Derryl Rice
    Tola Rodrick
    Heather Rowe
    Mats Scholz
    Claudia Schön
    René Schön
    Zoe Lea Schön
    Stefan Schrott
    Anca Seel
    Denise Senn
    Regula Suter
    Gatzaras Thanassis
    Eliza Tutellier
    Simon Vögele
    Claudia Zanvit








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