Workshop: Knowledge, Belief, and Logos in Plato
- https://ancient-philosophy.hu-berlin.de/en/events/workshopplato2105
- Workshop: Knowledge, Belief, and Logos in Plato
- 2015-05-28T10:00:00+02:00
- 2015-05-29T14:30:00+02:00
- When May 28, 2015 10:00 to May 29, 2015 02:30
- Where Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Hannoversche Str. 6, room 1.03
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Plato famously aligns knowledge with non-spatial objects, and belief with spatial objects. But why? In particular, what other Platonic commitments explain that one? This workshop will take those questions as central.
Program
Thursday, 28 May 2015
10-11:45 Jonathan Beere (Humboldt-Universität)
Knowledge as Knowing How to Engage in Cross-Examination: the Sophist’s solution to the Theaetetus’s Impasse
13:15-15:00 Carrie Swanson (University of Iowa)
Relative vs. Normative Measurement in Plato's Protagoras
15:15-17:00 Whitney Schwab (University of Maryland Baltimore County)
Matters of Opinion vs. Matters of Fact in Plato's Republic
Friday, 29 May 2015
10-11:45 Joseph Barnes (Humboldt-Universität)
Teaching and persuasion
12:45-14:30 Katja Vogt (Columbia University)
Doxa in the Philebus