Interpreting Plato: 
A Conference in Honor of Charles Kahn
upon the occasion of his retirement from the University of Pennsylvania.  October 5-6, 2012

402 Cohen Hall

University of Pennsylvania

Friday October 5

3:00pm         Welcome

3:10         Session 1:         “Goods to the Good: Plato on the Principles of Correct Poetry”

Speaker:  Susan Sauvé Meyer, University of Pennsylvania

Chair:  Ralph Rosen, University of Pennsylvania

4:30         Keynote Address:   Julia Annas,
Regents Professor of Philosophy, University of Arizona

"Soul and State: George Grote, Charles Kahn, and Plato's Later Thought"

Chair: Verity Harte, Yale University

6:00                           Reception

Saturday October 6

9:30 am         morning coffee

10:00         Session 2:  "The Hypothetical Method and the Arguments for the Immortality of the Soul in the Phaedo"

Speaker:  Vassilis Karasmanis, National Technical University of Athens

Chair: Daniel Muñoz-Hutchinson, St. Olaf’s College

11:30         Session 3: "Plato's Conceptions of Truth and Falsity"

Speaker:  David Wolfsdorf, Temple University

Chair: Alexander Mourelatos, University of Texas, Austin

1:00                            break

3:00         Session 4: "Knowing and Acting in Plato's Middle Period"

Speaker: Christopher Bobonich, Stanford University

Chair:  Rolf-Peter Horstmann, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

4:30                           afternoon coffee

5:00         Session 5:   "Is Schleiermacher the founding father of modern Platonic studies?"

Speaker: André Laks, Université Paris–Sorbonne/ Universidad Panamericana, Mexico.

Chair:  Alexander Nehamas, Princeton University

6:30         Presentation to Charles Kahn of festschrift volume, Presocratics and Plato (Parmenides Publishing, 2012).

Chair:  Richard Patterson, Emory University

Presentation:  Arnold Hermann, Hyele Institute.

Remarks:         Charles Kahn, University of Pennsylvania

7:00                           Reception 

Location:  Cohen Hall 402, University of Pennsylvania.

Registration:

There is no fee for registration, but please register by sending an email to smeyer@phil.upenn.edu, so that we will know how many people to expect.

Conference Hotel:

The Latham Hotel in Center city Philadelphia (135 South 17th Street, http://www.lathamhotel.com/. 1-877-528-4261) is offering a special rate of $159/night, subject to availability.  Please ask for the “University of Pennsylvania Rate” when making reservations.

SPONSORED BY:

• The Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium
• The Department of Philosophy, Department of Classical Studies, Center for Ancient Studies, The School of Arts and Sciences, and the University Research Foundation, University of Pennsylvania