INTERNATIONAL PLATO SOCIETY
XIV SYMPOSIUM PLATONICUM
Online Sessions (May 19-21, 2025)
Facultad de Humanidades
Universidad Carlos III, Getafe, Madrid
Link:
https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/a56905789b044613bb59128a9dac667a
Programme
Monday, May 19th
11.00-12.00: Plenary Session: Chair: Luc Brisson
Salomon Ofman: Theodorus’ Mathematical Lesson (Theaetetus, 147c7-d6): A New Interpretation
12.00-12.40: Ordinary Session 1: Chair: Arnaud Macé
Diego García Rincón: Alteration and Indeterminacy in Plato’s Critique of Radical Flux (Theaetetus 182d1–183b5).
12.40-13.00: 20 min Break
13.00-13.40: Ordinary Session 2: Chair: Gabriele Cornelli
Rafael Moreno Gonzalez: La sabiduría del renacuajo. Semejanza, desemejanza y saber en el Teeteto de Platón
13.40-14.20: Ordinary Session 3: Chair: Zdenek Lenner
Evan Keeling: Socrates’ Avowal of Knowledge: the case of the Theaetetus
14.20-15.30: Lunch Break
15.30-16.10: Thesis Dissertation 1: Chair: S.S. Meyer
Jiseob Yoon: The Role of Law in Plato’s Cities (Supervisor: Melissa Lane)
16.10-16.50: Ordinary Session 4: Chair: Franco Trabattoni
Melina Mouzala: Protagoras’ Gnoseology and Ontology in Relation to Heraclitus (Plato’s Theaetetus, 151e-152e)
16.50-17.10: 20 min Break
17.10-17.50: Ordinary Session 5: Chair: Paolo Gigli
André Braga: Heraclitus in Plato’s Theaetetus (160d)
17.50-18.30: Ordinary Session 6: Chair: Álvaro Vallejo Campos
Marisa Divenosa: Protágoras en el ‘Protágoras’ de Teeteto (151d-160e)
- : Ordinary Session 7: Chair: Michele Corradi
Gonzalo Gamarra: The Philosophical Importance of Theaeatetus’s Mathematical Example in relation to Theaetetus 201c–210d
Tuesday, May 20th
11.00-11.40: Ordinary Session 1: Chair: Melina Mouzala
Anthony Bonnemaison: The Second Serious Critique of Protagoras: Examination or Subversion of the Sophist’s Apology? (171d-179b)
11.40-12.20: Ordinary Session 2: Chair: Anne Balansard
Luc Brisson, La digression dans le Théétète (172c-177b)
12.20-12.40: 20 min Break
12.40-13.20: Ordinary Session 3: Chair: Olivier Renaut
Florian Marion: Tht. 182c-e: Derridian-Cratylian Semantic Processualism. A Reconstruction and a Criticism
13.20-14.00: Ordinary Session 4: Chair: Emanuelle Maffi
Sergio Di Girolamo: Nuovi elementi per interpretare Tht. 180e1
14.00-15.30: Lunch Break
15.30-16.10: Thesis Dissertation 2: Chair: Sonsoles Costero-Quiroga
Elena Sofia Capra: Ultime scintille di umanità (Pl. Lg. 3. 677b). Storia Platonica dell’Atene Classica (Supervisors: Virgilio Costa and Emanuele Dettori)
16.10-16.50: Thesis Dissertation 3: Chair: Ed Halper
Samuel Hage: Socrates Accused: Anytus, Meletus, Lycon and the Corruption of Athens (Supervisor: Ronna Burger)
16.50-17.10: 20 min Break
17.10-17.50: Ordinary Session 5: Chair: Marta Jiménez
María Angélica Fierro, La ὁμοίωσις θεῷ en Theaet. 176a5-c2: la aporía de la naturaleza de la ἐπιστήμη
17.50-18.30: Ordinary Session 6: Chair: Kristian Larsen
Ermioni Prokopaki: Understanding the Puzzle of False Judgment Presented in the Theaetetus (187c-200d)
18.30-19.10: Ordinary Session 7: Chair: Kristian Larsen
Lea Schroeder: Memory and Perceptual Error at Theaetetus 191c-196c
Wednesday, May 21st
11.00-11.40: Ordinary Session 1: Chair: Anthony Bonnemaison
Sotaro Fukuda: Knowledge, Belief, and Logos in Plato’s Theaetetus 209a-210a
11.40-12.20: Ordinary Session 2: Chair: Lin Li
Karine Tordo Rombaut: How far is the third definition Socratic?
12.20-12.40: 20 min Break
12.40-13.20: Ordinary Session 3: Chair: Filippo Forcignanò
Claudia Luchetti: Is the Soul an Idea? On an enigmatic Passage in Platoʼs Theaetetus (184d1-5) contextualized
13.20-14.00: Ordinary Session 4: Chair: Alessandro Stavrou
Rodrigo Illarraga, The Theaetetus as Plato’s answer to Xenophon’s Memorabilia
14.00-15.30: Lunch Break
15.30-16.10: Thesis Dissertation 4: Chair: Franco Ferrari
Hermann Crüwell: Archaia Phusis. The Original Nature of the Soul in Plato’s Middle Dialogues (Supervisor: Dominic Scott)
16.10-16.50: Thesis Dissertation 5: Chair: Beatriz Bossi
Hardy Mizra: Reflecting Uniquely the Ideal: A Non-Dualistic Approach to Platonic Ethics
(Supervisor: Laura Candiotto)
16.50-17.10: 20 min Break
17.10-17.50: Ordinary Session 5: Chair: Michele Curnis
Zbigniew Nerczuk, References to Plato’s Theaetetus in books G (IV) and K (XI) of Aristotle’s Metaphysics
17.50-18.30: Ordinary Session 6: Chair: Mauro Tulli
Emmanuele Vimercati: Filone di Alessandria lettore del Teeteto: il caso dell’assimilazione a Dio (176A-B)
18.30-19.10: Ordinary Session 7: Chair: Harold Tarrant
Federico Casella: “As Far as This is Possible” (Tht. 176b1): The Radicalisation of Superhuman Assistance in the Middle Platonists’ Theories of “Becoming Like God” (Homoiosis Theo)
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