As part of the wider research programme in preparation for the XII Symposium Platonicum, organized by the International Plato Society, and held in Paris in July 2019, the Trinity Plato Centre hosted a satellite workshop on the topic: Plato’s Parmenides in relation to Plato’s other dialogues. This event, which was held on 24 and 25 March 2018 brought together an international group of researchers for a two-day workshop.
Programme
Saturday 24 March
Evan Rodriguez
Idaho State University
“More than a reductio: Plato’s method in Parmenides and beyond”
Wolfgang Mann
Columbia University
“The slogan ouk estin antilegein and the late-learners in Plato’s Sophist”
David Horan
Trinity Plato Centre
“The One in Plato: Parmenides and Sophist”
Vasilis Politis
Trinity College Dublin
“How, and in what dialogue, does Plato argue for the Parmenides claim that forms are necessary for thought and speech?”
Sunday 25 March
Pauline Sabrier
Sun Yat-Sen University
“Can forms have parts and nevertheless remain one? A comparison between the Parmenides and the Sophist“
Jens Kristian Larsen
University of Bergen
“Socrates the Eleiatic: On the Eleiatic Origins of Socrates’ Art of Conversation”