From 27 to 30 May 2017 the Trinity Plato Centre hosted a workshop on the broad theme of Plato’s metaphysics. This event was an occasion for Professor Blake Hestir (TCU) to present some themes from his recent manuscript Plato on the Metaphysical Foundations of Meaning and Truth.
Programme
Saturday 27 May
Pauline Sabrier
Trinity Plato Centre
“The non-coreferentiality of change and rest in the gigantomachia of the Sophist: Plato’s defence of a two-kind ontology”
Jens Kristian Larsen
University of Bergen
“Differentiating philosophy from rhetoric and sophistry: the science of dialectic in the Phaedrus and the Sophist“
Sunday 28 May
Blake Hestir
Texas Christian University
“Plato’s conception of propositions”
Kate Kiernan
Trinity Plato Centre
“Naming and action in the Cratylus“
Monday 29 May
Vasilis Politis
Trinity College Dublin
“Unity and contradiction: Metaphysics Γ3-6 as a critical commentary on Republic VII.523a-525a”
Keith Begley
Trinity College Dublin
“How not to conceive of Heraclitean psychology”
Tuesday 30 May
David Horan
Trinity Plato Centre
“The argumentative unity of Plato’s Parmenides”