Plato's Philosophy: Eros, Polis, Cosmos

Dates:
Friday and Saturday, October 19 and 20, 2018

Venue:
Northwestern University (Kresge Hall, Room 1-515) on Friday
University of Chicago (Franke Institute for the Humanities) on Saturday

Program:

Friday (Northwestern)

10:00-11:30 Henry Mendell (California State University)
“Plato and the Mathematical Sciences”
11:45-1:15 Suzanne Obdrzalek (Claremont-McKenna College)
“Why Eros?”
3:00-4:30 Verity Harte (Yale University)
“Craft (technē) and the good life in Plato’s Philebus”
4:45-6:15 Emily Fletcher (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
“Cosmology and Human Nature in the Timaeus”

Saturday (University of Chicago)

10:00-11:30 Agnes Callard (University of Chicago)
“Being Good At Being Bad: The Hippias Minor on Rule-Following”
11:45-1:15 Eric Brown (Washington University at St. Louis)
“The Portrayal of Socrates and the Invention of Philosophy”
3:00-4:30 David Ebrey (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)
“The Unfolding Account of the Forms in the Phaedo”
4:45-6:15 Rachana Kamtekar (Cornell University) and Rachel Singpurwalla (University of Maryland)
“The Best Constitution in Plato’s Later Political Thought”

There will be a lunch between morning and afternoon sessions and a dinner at the end of each day.