INTERNATIONAL PLATO SOCIETY
XIV SYMPOSIUM PLATONICUM
Facultad de Filosofía
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Ciudad Universitaria
Campus de Moncloa
Plaza Menéndez Pelayo sin número
Monday, May 5
8.00-9.00: Reception of the Participants (Central Hall, Ground floor)
9.00-10.00: Opening Ceremony (Paraninfo, Ground floor)
Welcome to the XIV Symposium:
Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy: Prof. Dr. Juan José García Norro
Memorial to Honor our Dearest Members:
Thomas More Robinson (Livio Rossetti: online)
Tomás Calvo Martínez (Álvaro Vallejo Campos)
Thomas Szlezák (Francisco Lisi)
Gianni Casertano (Lidia Palumbo)
Maurizio Migliori (Elisabetta Cattanei)
10.00-11.00: Plenary Session (Paraninfo) Chair: Mary Margaret Mc Cabe
De Vogel Lecturer: Prof. Christopher Rowe:
‘On (Mis-translating) Plato on Belief and Knowledge: the Theaetetus and Other Dialogues’
11.00-11.30: Coffee Break (Cafetería de Profesores, downstairs)
Parallel Session 1: Plato against Flux and Materialism (Paraninfo) Chair: Ivana Costa
11.30-12.10: Noburu Notomi: Epicharmus and Plato in the Theaetetus (152e)
12.10-12.50: Gregory MacIsaac: Plato’s Account of Presocratic Materialism: A New Interpretation of Theaetetus
Parallel Session 2: The Prologue (Salón de Grados: ground floor, first room on the right): Chair: Álvaro Vallejo
11.30-12.10: Sung-Hoon Kang: “Just Now or Long Ago” – The First Words of the Theaetetus
12.10-12.50: Gabriele Cornelli: Verdad y juego retórico en Platón (Tht. 142a-143d)
Parallel Session 3: Knowing Theaetetus (Seminario 217: First Floor: stairs on the left: half corridor on the left): Chair: Laura Candiotto
11.30-12.10: Jonathan Fine: Knowing Theaetetus (Tht. 142a-145c)
12.10-12.50: Lidia Palumbo: Sulla somiglianza tra Socrate e Teeteto e sul loro ruolo di specchi (Tht. 144d-145b)
13.00-14.15 Lunch (Cafetería de Profesores, downstairs)
Parallel Session 4: The Prologue (Paraninfo)
Chair: Irmgard Männlein
14.20-15.00: Benny Kozian, Approaching the truth: The prologue as a non-aporetic way out (Tht. 142a1-143c7)
15.00-15.40: Filippo Forcignano: Il testo sotto sorveglianza: l’affidabilità della scrittura nel prologo del Teeteto
Parallel Session 5: Knowing Socrates (Salón de Grados) Chair: Lidia Palumbo
14.20-15.00: Antonino Spinelli: Socrate sapiente o ignorante? Una lettura paralella de Teeteto e Cratilo
15.00-15.40: Zdenek Lenner: Erōs et erōtēsis dans le Théétète: entre ignorer et savoir
Parallel Session 6: On Age and Wonder (Sala de Juntas) Chair: Luca Pitteloud
14.20-15.00: Martin Graceffa: Jeunesse et maturité dans le Théétète de Platon. (Autour de 149a-151d, 166a-169d et 172c-177c)
15.00-15.40: Chloe Balla: Why wonder? Plato on the proper predisposition to philosophy (155d)
Parallel Session 7: Self-Awareness (Seminario 217) Chair: Julia Pfefferkorn
14.20-15.00: Daniel Bloom: Self-Awareness and Lack of Self-Awareness in Plato’s Theaetetus (163d-164d, 184b-186e)
15.40-16.00: Short Coffee Break
Parallel Session 8: On Calculating (Paraninfo) Chair: Francisco Gonzalez
16.10-16.40: Yan Lu: Mathematical Incommensurability and Constructive Definition in Theaetetus 147d2-148b2
16.50-17.30: Pauline Sabrier-Thomas Seissl: Contingent Future in Plato’s Theaetetus (178a-179b)
Parallel Session 9: On Terms and Dialectics (Sala de Juntas) Chair: Álvaro Vallejo
16.10-16.50: André Rehbinder: “Being” and “being such”, “greater” and “greater than”: two shifts of meaning in the Theaetetus (152a-168c)
16.50-17.30: Eleni Kaklamanou and Maria Pavlou: Ἐπανόρθωσις in the Theaetetus 167e-168a
Parallel Session 10: The Theaetetus and the Philebus (Salón de Grados) Chair: Dougal Blyth
16.10-16.50: Olga Alieva: Sense and Sensibility: the Theaetetus and the Philebus on Reason and Pleasure
16.50-17.30: Raffaella Antonini: The Theaetetus and the Philebus: where does the μέτρον truly lie? (Tht. 177c6-179b5)
Parallel Session 11: The Theaetetus, the Republic and the Philebus (Seminario 217) Chair: Silvio Marino
16.10-16.50: Lia Theodorudis: The Theaetetus as a Synopsis of the Sciences
16.50-17.30: Sarah Feldman: Relative Measurement and the Structural Characteristics of Perception in Theaetetus 153d-158e and Philebus 41b-42c
18.00: Bus Service to the City Centre
19.00: Welcome Reception at the Círculo de Bellas Artes (downtown)
Tuesday May 6
9.00-10.00: Plenary Session 1 (Paraninfo): Chair: Noburu Notomi
Franco Ferrari: Aporia e maieutica: la struttura del Teeteto e il significato dell’esito aporetico del dialogo
10.00-11.00: Plenary Session 2 (Paraninfo) Chair: Claudia Marsico
Marcelo Boeri: “Cuando somos niños este recipiente (que es el alma) está vacío” Los aspectos tentadores de la epistemología empirista del Teeteto y por qué hay que resistir la tentación
11.00-11.30: Coffee Break
Parallel Session 1: Perception and Knowledge (Paraninfo): Chair: Franco Ferrari
11.40-12.20: Kristian Larsen: On Perception and Knowledge in Plato’s Theaetetus (151e-152d, 184b-186e)
12.20-13.00: Clement Heidsieck: La théorie de la vision du Théétète (153e-154, 156a-e) est-elle platonicienne?
Parallel Session 2: Perception, Medicine and Knowledge (Sala de Juntas) Chair: Elisabetta Cattanei
11.40-12.20: Silvio Marino: Aspects of medical τέχνη and perception in Plato’s Theaetetus
12.20-13.00: Francesca Eustacchi: Scienza non è altro che percezione (Tht. 151e2-3): sul ruolo della percezione nel processo conoscitivo
Parallel Session 3: Flux, Buddhism and Esoteric Philosophy (Salón de Grados) Chair: Raúl Gutiérrez
11.40-12.20: Michael Griffin: The flux doctrine of Theaetetus 155d-160e and early Buddhist abhidharma analysis
12.20-13.00: Leo Trotz-Liboff: Esoteric Philosophy in Plato’s Theaetetus: 152c8-e9; 155e3-156c5 37
Parallel Session 4: Plato’s Homer/Reception in Origen and Plotinus (Seminario 217) Chair: Irmgard Männlein
11.40-12.20: Giovanni Trovato: Rotating heavens: Homer and the World Soul in Theaet. 153c-d
12.20-13.00: Ilaria Ramelli: Origen’s Creative Reception of Plato’s Theaetetus: Assimilation to God, the Destruction of Evil, Zetesis, and Convergences with Plotinus
13.00-14.15 Lunch
Parallel Session 5 (Paraninfo) Parmenides behind the Curtain Chair: Kristian Larsen
14.20-15.00: Dougal Blyth: Parmenidean Terms, Reason and Judgment at Theaetetus 183c-187a
15.00-15.40: Denis Walter: The koina (185a–186a) and Socrates’ Dream (201e–206b) in Light of the Second Part of the Parmenides
Parallel Session 6: On Δύναμις, ποιεῖν and πάσχειν (Salón de Grados) Chair: Arnaud Macé
14.20-15.00: Carolina Araujo: Power as the mark of generation in the Theaetetus
15.00-15.40: Santiago Chame: The notions of ποιεῖν and πάσχειν in Plato’s Theaetetus
Parallel Session 7: Maieutics (Sala de Juntas): Chair: Chloe Balla
14.20-15.00: Laura Candiotto: The Embodiment of Maieutics
15.00-15.40: Zara Amdur, Phaenarete’s Midwifery (Theaetetus 149a-151d)
Parallel Session 8: The Philosopher (Seminario 217) Chair: Marta Jiménez
14.20-15.00: Julia Pfefferkorn: The Philosopher’s Freedom (Tht. 172c8-173c6, 175d7- 176a2)
15.00-15.40: Marta Mascia-Bernat Torres: The portrayal of the philosopher in the central digression of Theaetetus: mathematical education and lack of φρόνησις (173 b – 175 b)
15.40-16.00: Short Coffee Break
Parallel Session 9: Tà koiná (Paraninfo) Chair: Álvaro Vallejo
16.00-16.40: Lloyd Gerson: Tà koiná
16.40-17.20: Francisco Gonzalez: Thinking of Common Characters in Plato’s Theaetetus 184-186 and the Aristotelian Reply
Parallel Session 10: On Secret Doctrines (Sala de Juntas) Chair: Miquel Solans
16.00-16.40: Manuela Rondón Triana: The Two Secret Doctrines of the Theaetetus (153d-160e, 181c-186e)
16.40-17.20: Richard Parry: Causes and the Secret Doctrine: Theaetetus 156a-e
Parallel Session 11: Which Protagoras?/Protagoras Refuted? (Salón de Grados) Chair: Francesca Pentassuglio
16.00-16.40: Michele Corradi: “Se all’improvviso spuntasse fuori qui emergendo fino al collo…” (171d): lo spettro del sofista tra Protagora e Teeteto
16.40-17.20: Jenny Strandberg: How to Refute a Protagorean: Negotiating a Relativist and an Infallibilist Reading of the Peritrope Passage in the Theaetetus (170a-171c)
Parallel Session 12: Socrates’s Protagoras/Protagoras Refuted? (Seminario 217) Chair: André Rehbinder
16.00-16.40: Mateo Duque: Imitation (Mimēsis) as the Cleverest Form of Criticism: Socrates’ “Protagoras” in the Theaetetus (166a2–168c2)
16.40-17.20: Luca Pitteloud: Le relativisme se réfute-t-il lui-même ? Théétète 171a-b
17.30-18.30: Plenary Session 3: Chair: Rafael Ferber
Barbara Sattler: Mathematical knowledge in Plato’s Theaetetus
18.30-19.00 Walking Tour to the Residence of the Ambassador of Greece (1.9 kms; 30 min walk)
NB: If you need a taxi, please book it in advance by your own. Address: Avda. Miraflores, 15 (Madrid)
19.00-20.30: Reception at the Residence of the Ambassador of Greece Ms. Algaía Balta
Bus Service to the City Centre: Stop 1: Moncloa; Stop 2: Gran Via
Wednesday, May 7
9.00-10.00: Plenary Sessions 1 (Paraninfo): Chair: Arnaud Macé
Anne Balansard: La digression du Théétète: la dernière réfutation de Protagoras
10.00-11.00: Plenary Session 2 (Paraninfo) Chair: Debra Nails
Mi-Kyoung (Mitzi) Lee: What Plato learned from Protagoras
11.00-11.30: Coffee Break
Parallel Session 1: Maieutics (Paraninfo) Chair: Irmgard Männlein
11.30-12.10: Mario Regali: La metafora del parto nel Teeteto (149a-152a) e il philosophos della Repubblica (VI 490a-b): aporia, maieutica e sophia nella caratterizzazione di Socrate
12.10-12.50: Alessandro Stavrou: Contextualizing Midwifery: Theaet. 149a-151d
Parallel Session 2: On Free Time/Radical Flux (Sala de Juntas) Chair: Anna Motta
11.30-12.10: Dino de Sanctis: Proteggere il giusto tempo della φιλοσοφία: l’elogio della σχολή nel Teeteto (172d4-175b7)
12.10-12.50: Diego García Rincón: Alteration and Indeterminacy in Plato’s Critique of Radical Flux (Theaetetus 182d1–183b5)
Parallel Session 3: Flux vs. Natures (Salón de Grados) Chair: Richard Parry
11.30-12.10: Andrew Griffin: What Must the Materialists not Overhear and Why? A Reading of Theaetetus 151e-184b
12.10-12.50: Akira Kawashima: “Everywhere Seeking the Entire Nature of Each Whole of the Beings”: an Incarnate Philosopher at Work in the “Digression” of Plato’s Theaetetus
Parallel Session 4: The Waxen Block/The Jury (Seminario 217) Chair: Thomas Tuozzo
11.30-12.10: Ludovica Medaglia: A model designed to be inadequate: the Waxen Block in Plato’s Theaetetus (191a8-196c7)
12.10-12.50: Vilius Bartninkas: The Jury Passage at Theaetetus 201a-c: A Pragmatic Solution
13.00-14.15: Lunch
Free Afternoon
Thursday, May 8
9.00-10.00: Plenary Session 1 (Paraninfo) Chair: Ed Halper
Mary Margaret McCabe (King’s College): How to do things with birds
10.00-11.00: Plenary Session 2 (Paraninfo) Chair: Elisabetta Cattanei
Laura Marongiu: ‘Catching a Pigeon instead of a Dove? The Import of Mathematical Mistakes in the Aviary (Theaetetus 195e1-196b6; 198a4-199b6)
11.00-11.30: Coffee Break
Parallel Session 1: On Evil and God (Paraninfo) Chair: Raúl Gutiérrez
11.40-12.20: Vasilis Politis: Evil and the soul in the ‘digression’ of the Theaetetus
12.20-13.00: Rafael Ferber: Assimilation to God” (homoiôsis theô(i)) in Theaetetus 176a9–b2 and Laws 792c4–d5
Parallel Session 2: On Godlikeness (Sala de Juntas) Chair: Alessandro Stavrou
11.40-12.20: Ikko Tanaka, J.F.: Godlikeness and Justice: Contemplating Divine Standards in Civic Life
12.20-13.00: Piera De Piano: Sulla somiglianza, dell’uomo con il filosofo e del filosofo con dio (143e-144e; 176a-b)
Parallel Session 3: On Serious Laughing (Salón de Grados) Chair: Debra Nails
11.40-12.20: James Clay: Socratic inquiry and the Enslaved Thracian woman of the Theaetetus Digression
12.20-13.00: Marta Jiménez: Who is Laughable and Useless?: Experience of What Matters and the Defense of Philosophy in the Theaetetus Digression (172a1-177c4)
Parallel Session 4: On Virtues (Seminario 217) Chair: David Ebrey
11.40-12.20: Aditi Chaturvedi: The Role of the Digression in Plato’s Theaetetus: Models of Epistemic Virtues and the Social Dimensions of Knowledge
12.20-13.00: Federico Petrucci: The Virtue(s) of the ‘Theaetetus’: A Gradualistic Interpretation of the ‘Digression’ (172c3-177c2) 35
13.00-14.15 Lunch
Parallel Session 5: Plato’s Evolution (Paraninfo) Chair: Raúl Gutiérrez
14.20-15.00: Ivana Costa: Indicios del Platón post-socrático en la Digresión (172c-177c)
15.00-15.40: Flavia Palmieri: ἐπιστήμη and αἴσθησις: From Plato’s Theaetetus to the Old Academy
Parallel Session 6: Heraclitus (Sala de Juntas): Filippo Forcignano
14.20-15.00: Max Bergamo: Heraclitus’ Theory of the Opposites in the Theaetetus
15.00-15.40: Paolo Gigli: Socrates’ rejection of Heracliteanism: A step-by-step analysis of Tht. 182c3-183a8
Parallel Session 7: On the Achievements of Knowledge (Salón de Grados) Chair: Manfred Kraus
14.20-15.00: Guus Eelink: Thought and the Achievements of Knowledge (Theaetetus 184-186): on Attaining Being and Truth
15.00-15.40: Colin C. Smith: Being as Koinon: Theaetetus 185a-186e
Parallel Session 8: The Theaetetus and other Eleatic Dialogues (Seminario 217) Chair: Gabriele Cornelli
14.20-15.00: Miquel Solans Blasco: La figura del filósofo entre el Teeteto y el Sofista
15.00-15.40: William Altman: The Theaetetus and Plato’s Trilogy
15.40-16.00: Short Coffee Break
Parallel Session 9: On Opinion, Experience and Persuasion (Paraninfo)
Chair: Mary-Louise Gill
16.00-16.40: Thomas Tuozzo: True Opinion in the Theaetetus
16.40-17.20: Beatrice Lienemann: Empirical and non-empirical knowledge in the Theaetetus (184b4-187a1)
17.20-18.00: Samuel Meister: Socrates against Knowledge by Persuasion (Theaetetus 200d5–201c6)
Parallel Session 10: The Wax Block Model (Salón de Grados) Chair: Anne Balansard
16.00-16.40: Arnaud Macé: La nature des actes et des choses dans le Théétète (156a-d ; 174a-175a ; 203a-204a)
16.40-17.20: Suzanne Polge: True opinion, knowledge and thought in the Wax Block Mod
17.20-18.00: Emma Ponce: The Wax Heart of the Soul in the Theaetetus, 194c-195a: A Critique of Empedocles’ Empiricism
Parallel Session 11: The Aviary Model (Sala de Juntas) Chair: Hua-kuei Ho
16.00-16.40: Francesca Pentassuglio: What Model(s) of Paideia in the Theaetetetus? The Aviary and the ‘Transmissive’ Way of Teaching (198a10–b6)
16.40-17.20: Carlos Carvalhar: The aviary metaphor as an Egyptian imagery
17.20-18.00: Yuji Kurihara: Self-Knowledge and Socratic Ignorance in Plato’s Theaetetus
Parallel Session 12: The Third Definition (Seminario 217) Chair: Lea Schroeder
16.00-16.40: Cesare Simone Astorino: Knowledge and Belief: The Example of the Jury (201a-c)
16.40-17.20: Alex Montag: Socrates’ Investigation of Logos: Theaetetus 201d-210c
17.20-18.00: Liu Kezhou: Plato and Structuralist Mereology: Theaetetus 201c-210b
18.15-19.45: General Assembly of the IPS (only Members: Paraninfo)
20.00-20.30: Walking Tour to the ‘Museo del Traje’ for Closing Dinner
(23 min: 1,7 kms)
NB: If you need a taxi, please book it in advance by your own.
20.30-22.30: Closing Dinner
22.30: Bus Service to the City Centre: Stop 1: Moncloa; Stop 2: Gran Via.
Friday, May 9
Plenary Session 1 (Paraninfo) Chair: Mary-Louise Gill
9.00-10.00: De Vogel Lecturer: Ronald Polansky (and Kelsey Ward): The Prospect of Definitive Interpretation of the Theaetetus
Plenary Session 2 (Paraninfo) Chair: Emanuelle Maffi
10.00-11.00: Franco Trabattoni: Sul Significato Complessivo del Teeteto
11.00-11.30: Coffee Break
Parallel Session 1: On Logos in the Third Definition (Paraninfo) Chair: Laura Marongiu
11.40-12.20: Lin Li: The third account of logos in the Theaetetus 208c4-210b3 in light of Platonic division and collection
12.20-13.00: Jeremy Bredin: Antisthenes and the meaning of λόγος in the third definition of the Theaetetus
Parallel Session 2: On Dreaming and Knowledge (Sala de Juntas) Chair: Carolina Araujo
11.40-12.20: Manfred Kraus: Dreams Are Ten a Penny? Socrates’ Dream (Tht. 201-202)
12.20-13.00: I-Kai Jeng: Wisdom as Knowledge of Problem-Solving: Theaetetus 201c7-206b12
Parallel Session 3: On Names (Seminario 217) Chair: Michele Corradi
11.40-12.20: Anna Pavani: Names in the Theaetetus
12.20-13.00: Marco Donato: Prodicus in the Theaetetus
Parallel Session 4: On the Soul (Salón de Grados) Chair: Mitzi Lee
11.40-12.20: David Ebrey: The Theaetetus on the soul’s proper activity
12.20-13.00: Lea Schroeder: Memory and Perceptual Error at Theaetetus 191c-196c
13.00-14.15 Lunch
Parallel Session 5: The Third Definition (Paraninfo) Chair: Barbara Sattler
14.20-15.00: Emanuele Maffi: Why is the Theaetetus a response to the Meno? Some reflections on the connection between Theaetetus 201d-210d and Meno 97e2-98b5
15.00-15.40: Gonzalo Gamarra: The Philosophical Importance of Theaeatetus’s Mathematical Example in relation to Theaetetus 201c–210d
Parallel Session 6: The Anonymous (Salón de Grados) Chair: Harold Tarrant
14.20-15.00: Simonas Baliukonis: The Theaetetus’ Ethical Digression according to the Anonymous
15.00-15.40: Anna Motta: Come leggere il Teeteto: il prologo del Commento Anonimo al Teeteto 42
Parallel Session 7: Plato, Proclus and Damascious (Sala de Juntas)
14.20-15.00: Claudia Gianturco: Atheon illud et tenebrosum, quod et in Theetito Socrates ostendit: la centralità e il significato della ricezione procliana di Theaet. 176 a 5-e 5 nel De Malorum Subsistentia (48, 9-26)
15.00-15.40: José María Zamora: Las gestaciones aporéticas en Damascio
15.40-16.00: Short Coffee Break
Parallel Session 9: The paradox of not knowing what we know (Paraninfo): Chair: José María Zamora
16.00-16.40: García Baró: La imposibilidad del conocimiento que ya poseemos
Parallel Session 10: Plato and Aristotle (Sala de Juntas) Chair: Marcelo Boeri
16.00-16.40: Cristina Rossitto: Sulla terminologia del sapere fra il Teeteto e Aristotele
Parallel Session 11: Plato and Wittgenstein (Salón de Grados) Chair: Santiago Chame
16.00-16.40: Chiara Salamone: Sums, Wholes and Analysis in Theaetet. 203c-205e and in Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations
Parallel Session 12: Plato and the Hermetica (Seminario 217) Chair: Sonsoles Costero
16.00-16.40: Jorge Cano Cuenca: La recepción de la huida del mundo (Teeteto 176a-177c) en los Hermetica
16.45-17.45: Closing Plenary Session (Paraninfo): Chair: Alberto Bernabé
Harold Tarrant: Plato, Papyri and Secret Doctrine
17.45-19.00: Farewell Reception at the Faculty of Philosophy (Cafetería de Profesores)
19.00-20.00: Chryssa Georganta: Proagon
“The incredible story of desperate Iris and her comforting father Thaumas” (Paraninfo)
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