Conference

    05—06 Oct 2012
    University of Pennsylvania
    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    Interpreting Plato: 
    A Conference in Honor of Charles Kahn
    upon the occasion of his retirement from the University of Pennsylvania

    Program



    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








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