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. Participants (detailed schedule and titles TBA): Katja Vogt (Columbia University) Carrie Swanson (University of Iowa) Whitney Schwab (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) Matt Evans (University of Michigan) Jonathan Beere (Humboldt Universitaet zu Berlin) Joseph Barnes (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)
28.5.2015 | |
10:00 - 11:45 | Knowledge as Knowing How to Engage in Cross-Examination: the Sophist’s solution to the Theaetetus’s Impasse Jonathan Beere |
13:15 - 15:00 | Relative vs. Normative Measurement in Plato's Protagoras Carrie Swanson |
15:15 - 17:00 | Matters of Opinion vs. Matters of Fact in Plato's Republic Whitney Schwab |
29.5.2015 | |
10:00 - 11:45 | Teaching and persuasion Joseph Bjelde |
12:45 - 14:30 | Doxa in the Philebus Katja Maria Vogt |