PROGRAMME
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: Beatriz Bossi (President of the IPS)
– Juan José García Norro (Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy)
– Antonio Rivera (Director of the Department ‘Philosophy and Society’)
Memorial to Honor our Dearest Members:
– Thomas More Robinson (Livio Rossetti: online)
– Tomás Calvo Martínez (Álvaro Vallejo Campos)
– Gianni Casertano (Lidia Palumbo)
– Maurizio Migliori (Elisabetta Cattanei)
– Holger Thesleff (Olga Alieva)
– Thomas Szlezák (Francisco Lisi)
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 the 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-Robert
– 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 Forcignanò: 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)
15.00-15.45: European Research Council’s Grant Schemes: Info Session
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 Theodorudi: 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
19.00-20.00: Welcome Reception at the Círculo de Bellas Artes (downtown)
Tuesday May 6
9.00-10.00: Plenary Session 1 (Paraninfo) – Chair: Noburu Notomi
10.00-11.00: Plenary Session 2 (Paraninfo) – Chair: Claudia Marsico
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-Robert
– 11.40-12.20: Giovanni Trovato: Rotating heavens: Homer and the World Soul in Theaetetus 153c-d
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 and Inquiry (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: Diego Zucca: Self-Knowledge and The Paradox of Inquiry 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: Jorge Cano
– 14.20-15.00: Julia Pfefferkorn: The Philosopher’s Freedom (Tht. 172c8-173c6, 175d7- 176a2)
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
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
20.30: Bus Service to the City Centre:
Bus 1: Stops at Hotel 4C Bravo Murillo and at Hotel Petit Palu
Bus 2: Moncloa
Wednesday, May 7
9.00-10.00: Plenary Session 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-Robert
– 12.10-12.50: Alessandro Stavru: Contextualizing Midwifery: Theaetetus 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: Max Bergamo: Heraclitus’ Theory of the Opposites in the Theaetetus
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 Wax Tablet/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: How to do things with birds
10.00-11.00: Plenary Session 2 (Paraninfo) – Chair: Elisabetta Cattanei
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 Stavru
– 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
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): Chair: Filippo Forcignano
– 14.20-15.00: 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 Tablet Model (Salón de Grados) – Chair: Federico Petrucci
– 16.00-16.40: Marianna Nardi: Fra epistemologia e fiction: il πλάσμα nella cera
– 16.40-17.20: Suzanne Polge: True opinion, knowledge and thought in the Wax Block Model
– 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: Anna Motta
– 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) Agenda:
1) Open Access to the Proceedings of the IPS.
2) XVI Sympositum Platonicum (2031).
3) Renewal of Authorities: Ex Comm and Editorial Comm.
4) Sociedad Platónica Íbero-Americana.
5) Welcome to the new President: Raúl Gutiérrez.
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 1: to Hotel 4c Bravo Murillo and Petit Palu
– Bus Service 2: to Moncloa Station(Connections to metro, buses and taxis).
– Bus Service 3: to Moncloa Station
Friday, May 9
9.00-10.00: Plenary Session 1 (Paraninfo) – Chair: Mary-Louise Gill
– De Vogel Lecturer: Ronald Polansky (and Kelsey Ward): The Prospect of Definitive Interpretation of the Theaetetus
10.00-11.00: Plenary Session 2 (Paraninfo) – Chair: Emanuelle Maffi
– 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: Prodico nel Teeteto
Parallel Session 4: On the Soul (Salón de Grados) – Chair: Anne Balansard
– 11.40-12.20: Arnaud Macé: La nature des actes et des choses dans le Théétète (156a-d ; 174a-175a ; 203a-204a)
– 12.20-13.00: David Ebrey: The Theaetetus on the soul’s proper activity
13.00-14.15 Lunch
Parallel Session 5: The Third Definition (Paraninfo) – Chair: Barbara Sattler
– 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
Parallel Session 7: Plato, Proclus and Damascious (Sala de Juntas): – Chair: Mario Regali
– 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: Miguel 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 Quiroga
– 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: Anne Balansard
– 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 (Paraninfo):
“The Incredible Story of Desperate Iris and her Comforting Father Thaumas”
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