8:30-9 AM

Breakfast in the Lounge

 

SESSION 1

9:00-9:45 AM

Bill Beck (UPenn Classics): Provocative Contradictions - Plato’s Mythic Refamiliarization

Respondent: Robert Leib (Villanova Philosophy)

 

9:50-10:35 AM

Jeffrey Ulrich (UPenn Classics): Protagoras' muthos: Rewriting Hesiod

Respondent: Dan Issler (UPenn Philosophy)

 

SESSION 2

10:45-11:30 AM

Stephen Margheim (UPenn Classics): Beyond a Shadow of a Doubt: Plato's Epistemology in the Divided Line

Respondent: Andreas Avgousti (UPenn Philosophy/ Columbia Political Science)

 

11:35 AM-12:20 PM

Claire Griffin (Penn State Philosophy): The Politics of Natural Bodies in Plato’s Timaeus

Respondent: Hande Kesgin (Villanova Philosophy)

12:20-1:20 PM

Lunch

 

SESSION 3

1:20-2:05 PM

Austin Rooney (Temple Philosophy): A Socratic Straw-man in the Protagoras? Fleshing out the views of the polloi on akrasia

Respondent: Thomas Noah (UPenn Philosophy)

 

2:10-2:55 PM

John Garner (Villanova Philosophy): Pure Pleasure as an “Emergent Cause” in Plato's Philebus

Respondent: Nabeel Hamid (UPenn Philosophy)

 

SESSION 4

3:05-3:50 PM

Devin Curry (UPenn Philosophy): Sophist's Sophists

Respondent: Patricia Grosse (Villanova Philosophy)

 

3:55-4:30 PM

Sirin Yilmaz (Villanova Philosophy): How to Understand the Appearance of Socrates in Plato’s Sophist

Respondent: Daniel Fryer (UPenn Philosophy)

 

SESSION 5

4:40-5:25 PM

Christopher Davidson (Villanova Philosophy): Ancient Insult as Care of Others, and as Courageous Speech

Respondent: Hal Parker (UPenn Philosophy)