Virtual Socrates Colloquium 2022
A Special Two Hour Panel
Thursday, April 28
11:00 - 1:00 CDT
What Socrates Does
Moderator:
Nicholas Smith
Professor of Philosophy, Lewis and Clark College
The Social Aspects of Socratic Philosophizing
Laura Candiotto
Associate Professor of Philosophy
University of Pardubice
The Practical Context of Socratic Elenchus
Grant Bartolome Dowling
Stanford University
The Role of Emotions...
Virtual Socrates Colloquium 2022
Wednesday, Apr. 20
Composing music and telling stories:
On Socrates’ representation in the Phaedo
Chloe Balla
Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Crete
How does Socrates’ story regarding his decision to compose poetry during his stay in prison relate to Plato’s overall agenda in his Phaedo?...
Virtual Socrates Colloquium 2022
Wednesday, Apr. 6
Argument and Design in Plato’s Hippias Minor
Ravi Sharma
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Clark University
The first dialectical exchange of Hippias Minor (365d-369b) has often been thought logically unsound. I’ll argue that Socrates doesn’t equivocate or otherwise argue invalidly, and that he uses...
Christof Rapp:Unpacking Socrates’ Core Intuition in the ‘Gorgias’
The Socrates in Plato’s Apology and Crito (no less than the Socrates in Xenophon’s Memorabilia) leaves us puzzled in many respects. It is presupposed among other things that the unexamined life is not worth living; that the...
Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Socratic Studies
Work Group under The International Society for Socratic Studies
University of Copenhagen, December 10, 2021
Organized by Leo Catana (University of Copenhagen) and Donald Morrison (Rice University)
10:00-10:20
Welcome. Presentation round. Motivation for the work group under ISSS
10:20-11:00
John P. McCaskey (Researcher, Center for Medieval...
