Pittsburgh Plato Day: PLATO AND HIS ANCIENT READERS

March 17, 2018 (All day)

Event Summary

WORKSHOP PROGRAM:

10:00-11:00 Jacques Bromberg (University of Pittsburgh, Classics)
“Reading Plato in the Desert: Socratic Fragments from Hellenistic Egypt”
 
11:15-12:15 Christian Wildberg
“Was Philo a Platonist?”
 
Lunch
 
1:15-2:15 Patrick Miller (Duquesne University, Philosophy)
“Knowing, Being, and Doing the Good”
 
2:30-3:30 Justin Humphreys (University of Pittsburgh, Philosophy)
“Plato’s Critique of Writing via Hermias of Alexandria”
 
Coffee Break
 
4:15-5:15 Christopher Moore (Pennsylvania State University, Philosophy)
“The quiet (after-)life of the Charmides”
 
5:30-6:30 Christina Hoenig (University of Pittsburgh, Classics) 
“Proclus on Names and Naming”
 

 

A day long seminar, in collaboration with colleagues from Penn State and Duquesne.

This event is sponsored by the Department of Philosophy, the Department of Classics and the Joint Graduate Program in Classics, Philosophy and Ancient Science (CPAS)

Location and Address

10:00am – 6:30pm

Cathedral of Learning 332