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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...

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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...