West Coast Plato Workshop

Organizer

Patricia Marechal

Keynote Speakers

• Cinzia Arruzza (Boston University), "Alcibiades’ Thumotic Problem and the Shadow of Tyranny"
• Fiona Leigh (University College, London), "Soul-turning: Moral Development, Self-knowledge, and Plato’s Alcibiades"

Speakers

• Jack Condie (The New School for Social Research), "Underneath the Beginning: On Alcibiades 104a-104c" — Commentator: Brennan McDavid (Chapman University)
• Emily Kress (Brown University), "Alcibiades’ Ambition and Socrates’ Business" — Commentator: Evan Rodriguez (Idaho State University)
• Wenjin Liu (Duke University), "The Anatomy of Self-Care in Alcibiades I" — Commentator: Rachel Singpurwala (University of Maryland, College Park)
• Sarale Ben-Asher (University of New Mexico), "Properties as Valuable Possessions in Alcibiades I" — Commentator: Jozef Müller (UC Riverside)
• Frank Li (Harvard University), "Self-knowledge and Teleological Agency in Alcibiades I" — Commentator: Zack Brants (UC San Diego)
• Ryan Christensen (Brigham Young University), "Reciprocity and Role Reversal" — Commentator: John Proios (University of Chicago)
• Jake Haagenson (Columbia University), "Knowledge in Alcibiades I" — Commentator: David Jennings (UC Merced)
• Zara Amdur (Texas Tech University), "Privilege and Avoiding the Risk of Self-Satisfaction in Alcibiades I" — Commentator: Subin Park (UC San Diego)
• Peter Larsen (Dublin City University), "Sense Perception in Plato’s Alcibiades I" — Commentator: Marc Gasser-Wingate (Boston University)

Organizer

Yancy Dominick

Keynote Speakers

• Thomas C. Brickhouse & Nicholas D. Smith (University of Lynchburg & Lewis & Clark College), "Socrates on the Explanatory Relevance of Caring and Other Kinds of Conation in Plato's Apology" — Commentator: Sara De Leonardis (Cornell University)
• Emily Austin (Wake Forest University), "Socrates on What Makes Vice Amusing"

Speakers

• Mateo Duque (Binghamton University), "The Multiple Audience of Socrates’ Apologia" — Commentator: Sophia Stone (Lynn University)
• Chad Wiener (Old Dominion University), "A Certain Sort of Wisdom: Socratic Ignorance as Wisdom and Virtue" — Commentator: Christopher Colvin (Independent Scholar)
• Brennan McDavid (Chapman University), "The Dangers of Craft Wisdom" — Commentator: George Walter (Virginia Military Institute)
• Andrew Payne (Saint Joseph’s University), "Willing Action and Socratic Moral Psychology in the Refutation of Meletus: Apology 25c5 -26a7" — Commentator: Anna Bates (University of Washington)
• Kirk Sanders (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), "Socrates’ 'divine sign' and the charge of 'introducing religious innovations'" — Commentator: Jason Rheins (Ayn Rand Institute)
• Douglas A. Shepardson (Hunter College, CUNY), "Thirty Minas, Votes, and Tyrants: A Defense of the Political Interpretation of Plato’s Apology" — Commentator: Janice Moskalik (Seattle University)
• Andrew Culbreth (Boston College), "The Ethical Value of Socratic Hope in Plato's Apology" — Commentator: Nicholas R. Baima (Florida Atlantic University)
• Melle van Duijn (University of Oklahoma), "Plato’s Apology as Consolation" — Commentator: Cody Spjut (California State University, Long Beach)
• Zachary Brants (University of California, San Diego), "Hoping to Die? Socrates on the Hope that Death is Good" — Commentator: Yidi Wu (Boston University)

Organizer

Julie Piering and George Rudebusch

Keynote Speakers

• Christopher Rowe (Durham University), “Contemporary Politikoi and Other Sophists”
• Susan Sauvé Meyer (University of Pennsylvania), “Plato on the Rule of Law”

Speakers

• Evanthia Speliotis (Bellarmine University), “Paradigm and Method in Plato’s Statesman” — Commentator: Emily Hulme (University of Sydney)
• Sara De Leonardis (Cornell University), “The Place of the World-Soul in the Myth of the Statesman and its Ethical Dimension” — Commentator: Cynthia Shihui Ma (Tulane University)
• Sarale Ben-Asher (University of Chicago), “The Rule of Bisection in Statesman 262a–263b” — Commentator: Dong-geun Kim (University of Edinburgh)
• Freya Möbus (Loyola University Chicago) & Justin Vlasits (University of Illinois at Chicago), “Division and Animal Sacrifice in Plato’s Statesman” — Commentator: John Proios (University of Chicago)
• Pauline Sabrier (Université Libre de Bruxelles), “The Stoicheia tôn Pantôn at 278d1: Plato’s definition of an internal principle” — Commentator: Thomas Slabon (Stanford University)
• Ross Gilmore (University of Kansas), “The Statesman’s Craft in Context in Plato’s Statesman” — Commentator: Hande Akyar (Northwestern University)
• Lia Theodoroudi (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), “Who are the Kompsoi of 285a1?” — Commentator: Vilius Bartninkas (Vilnius University)
• Catherine McKeen (Bennington College), “Laws and Political Expertise in Plato’s Statesman” — Commentator: Rupert Sparling (Stanford University)
• Jeremy Reid (San Francisco State University), “The Analysis of Constitutions in Plato’s Statesman” — Commentator: Christopher Turner (California State University Stanislaus)
• Joseph Bjelde (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin), “Making Divine Bonds” — Commentator: Holly Moore (Luther College)

Organizers

Chris Bobonich and Thomas Slabon

Keynote Speakers

• Josh Ober (Stanford), “Glaucon’s Dilemma: Plato on the origins of social order”

Speakers

• André Luiz Braga da Silva (São Paulo), “Plato’s Principle of Non-Contradiction in Republic and Sophist” — Commentator: Patrick Cox (Padua)
• Eric Brown (Washington), “Plato on Goods, From Socrates to Glaucon and Back Again.” — Commentator: Casey Perin (UC Irvine)
• Jonathan Fine (Hawaii), “What is it to act for the sake of the kalon?” — Commentator: Faith McFadden (Southern California)
• Thomas Slabon (Stanford), “Plato on Learning to Be Good: Typological Character Formation in Republic II-III” — Commentator: John Proios (Chicago)
• Rupert Sparling (Stanford), “A Reconsideration of Plato’s Function Argument.” — Commentator: Jan Szaif (UC Davis)
• Sarale Ben Asher (Chicago), “Poetry in Republic 2.” — Commentator: Julie Piering (Northern Arizona)
• Natalie Hannan (Rochester), “Truth, Lies, and Doxa in Plato’s Republic” — Commentator: Jacob Abolafia (Stanford)
• Avshalom Schwartz (Stanford), “Divine Epiphany and Political Authority in Plato’s Republic.” — Commentator: Peggy Zhu (Cornell)
• Grant Bartolomé Dowling (Stanford), “The Apraxia Consequence of the Rep.’s Developmental Account of Psychological Virtue.” — Commentator: Carey Seal (UC Davis)

Organizers

Julie Piering and George Rudebusch

Keynote Speakers

• Mary Louise Gill (Brown University), “Images of the Philosopher in the Sophist”

Speakers

• Xin Liu (Nanjing University, China), “Koinōnia Megistōn Genōn: From the Exercise of One-Many in the Parmenides to the Exercise of Being-Nonbeing in the Sophist” — Commentator: Benjamin Keoseyan (University of Arizona)
• Pauline Sabrier (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany), “Change, Rest and Greatest Kinds in Plato’s Sophist” — Commentator: Chris Buckels (Junípero Serra High School, San Mateo, California)
• Colin C. Smith (University of Colorado Boulder), “Being as Communion: Sophist 248b2-8” — Commentator: Timothy Clarke (University of California Berkeley)
• Jan Szaif (University of California Davis), “Paideia and Philosophy in Plato’s Sophist” — Commentator: Fiona Leigh (University College London, Great Britain)
• Catherine McKeen (Bennington College), “The Private Sophist and the Public Sophist” — Commentator: Fernando Muniz (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil)
• Ryan M. Brown (Boston College), “A Proto-Account of the ‘Convertibility of the Transcendentals’ in Plato’s Sophist” — Commentator: Emily Perry (University of California Berkeley)
• Peter Moore (Xavier University), “Sophistry as Mimicry of True Arts: Why There is a Sophist but Not a Sophistic Technitēs” — Commentator: Cristina Ionescu (Catholic University of America)
• Anna Pavani (University of Cologne and Brown University), “The Value Free Method that Values Names” — Commentator: Evan Rodriguez (Idaho State University)
• Christopher Izgin (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany), “Are Aristotle’s Definitions of Truth and Falsity Platonic? Aristotle’s Metaphysics Γ.7, 1011b26–7, and Plato’s Sophist, 240e10–241a1” — Commentator: Mark Wheeler (University of California San Diego)

Organizer

Nick Smith

Keynote Speakers

• Irina Deretić (University of Belgrade)

Speakers

• Dan Larkin (Georgia Southern University) and Julian Rome (University of Michigan), “Finding Friendship in the Least Likely of Places: Understanding the Lysis through the Sophist” — Commentator: Gale Justin (Sacramento State University)
• Reid Comstock (University of Notre Dame) and Trevor Anderson (University of Notre Dame), “’Cutting Them Down to Size’: Socratic Eros and the Use of Protreptic in the Lysis” — Commentator: Inara Zanuzzi (University of Rio Grande do Sul)
• Evan Rodriguez (Idaho State University), “Three Modes of Protreptic in Plato’s Lysis” — Commentator: Jan Szaif (University of California, Davis)
• Nicholas Kerklaan (University of Calgary), “Flattering the Beautiful: Plato on Love Poetry” — Commentator: Susan Bencomo (Northwestern University)
• Freya Möbus (Loyola University Chicago), “Socratic Therapy for the Glutton” — Commentator: Steven Goldman (Portland State University)
• Justin Clark (Hamilton College), “The Role of the ‘What is F-ness?’ Question in Plato’s Lysis” — Commentator: Brad Berman (Portland State University)
• Evan Schultz (University of Notre Dame), “Lack and Desire in the Lysis.” — Commentator: Nara Ivette López-Contreras (Université de Montréal)
• Andrew Payne (Saint Joseph’s University), “Philia as Fellowship in Plato’s Lysis” — Commentator: Jeremy Reid (San Francisco State University)
• Yumi Suzuki (University of Bern), “Philosopher’s Friends – Does Plato Attempt to Define “Philosopher” in the Lysis?” — Commentator: Faith McFadden (University of Southern California)
• Yancy Hughes Dominick (Seattle University), “Gender and Discourse in Plato’s Lysis” — Commentator: Don E. Wayne (University of California, San Diego)
• David Jennings (University of California, Merced), “The Akin vs. the Good in Plato’s Lysis” — Commentator: Anna Bates (University of Washington)

Organizer

Mark Wheeler

Keynote Speakers

• Deborah Modrak (University of Rochester), "Protagoras and Socrates—More Alike Than Different?" — Commentator: Eric Morelli (Point Loma Nazarene College)

Speakers

• Adam Beresford (Univ. of Massachusetts, Boston), "Protagoras and Socrates—More Alike Than Different?" — Commentator: Jan Szaif (University of California, Davis)
• Clerk Shaw (Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville), "Motivational Conflict and the Moral Paradox in Plato's Protagoras" — Commentator: BBlythe Greene (University of California, San Diego)
• Oksana Maksymchuk (University of Arkansas), "An Anthropological Defense of the Measure Doctrine in the Protagoras" — Commentator: Grant Dowling (Stanford University)
• Aliza Ashraf (Queens College, City University of New York), "Protagoras and Socrates on Courage and Knowledge" — Commentator: Ryan Drake (Fairfield University)
• Marta Jimenez (Emory University), "Equality in Love: The Education of Lover and Beloved in Plato’s Protagoras" — Commentator: Keitel Del Rosario (San Diego State University)
• Deborah Modrak (University of Rochester), "Piety in the Protagoras: Plato’s Thoughts on the Great Speech" — Commentator: Jan Szaif (University of California, Davis)
• Carissa Phillips-Garrett (Loyola Marymount University), "Socratic Intellectualism in the Protagoras" — Commentator: David Hoinski (West Virginia University)

Organizer

Nick Smith

Keynote Speakers

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Andrew Payne (Saint Joseph's University), “Dianoia, Dialectic and Giving an Account of Hypotheses in Republic 6 and 7” — Commentator: Sophia Stone (Lynn University) Margaret Scharle (Reed College), “Plato’s Use of the Middle Segments of Republic’s Divided Line” Joel Martinez (Lewis & Clark College), “Plato On Women: Comments On Joanne Waugh’s Feminist Interpretation of Plato”

Organizers

Carey Seal and Jan Szaif

Keynote Speakers

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Amos Espeland (Stanford University), “Law and Legislation in Plato's Gorgias” — Commentator: Andrew Payne (Saint Joseph's University) Willie Costello (Stanford University) “Socrates and Plato against the immoralist: Responding to Callicles’ critique,” — Commentator: Jozef Müller (University of California, Riverside)

Organizers

Sarah Jansen, Julie Piering, and George Rudebusch

Keynote Speakers

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Cristina Ionescu (Catholic University of America), “Pleasures of Learning and the Role of Due Measure in Experiencing Them” Justin Vlasits (University of California, Berkeley), "Using the Divine Method in Plato’s Examination of Knowledge" Allauren Forbes (University of Pennsylvania), “The Nature of Desire in Plato's Philebus”

Organizer

Rachana Kamtekar

Keynote Speakers

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Franco Trivigno (University of Oslo), “The Argument against Traditional Theism in Laws 10.905d8-907b4" Yancy Dominick (Seattle University), “Likening Small to Great: Images and Arguments in Laws 10” David O'Connor (University of Notre Dame), “Images in late Plato: Laws X”

Organizer

Klaus Corcilius

Keynote Speakers

• Paul Woodruff (University of Texas, Austin), “What is the Question in the Hippias Major?”
• Rachana Kamtekar (University of Arizona), “Is it the good person, or no-one, who does wrong willingly?”

Speakers

• Joseph Barnes (Humboldt University Berlin), “Socrates and the Development of ‘Wisdom’” — Commentator: Tim Clarke (UC Berkeley)
• Gale Justin (California State University, Sacramento), “The Logic of “Beautiful – Ugly” in the Hippias Major” — Commentator: William Prior (Santa Clara University)
• Franco Trivigno (Marquette University), “The Moral and the Literary Character of Hippias in the Hippias Major” — Commentator: John Ferrari (UC Berkeley)
• Emily Fletcher (University of Wisconsin - Madison), “Unity, Pleasure and the Fine” — Commentator: George Rudebusch (Northern Arizona University)
• Agnes Callard (University of Chicago), “Being Good at Being Bad” — Commentator: Sven Weigand (Stanford)
• Derin McLeod (UC Berkeley), “Hippias, The Laws, and the Wise Men of Old” — Commentator: Paul Woodruff (University of Texas, Austin)
• Russell Jones (Harvard) & Ravi Sharma (Clark), “Craft, Power, and Virtue in the Hippias Minor” — Commentator: Tony Long (UC Berkeley)
• Zenon Culverhouse (Stanford), “Plato’s Hippias Minor: Dunamis in Action” — Commentator: Yancy Dominick (Seattle University)
• Paul Carelli (University of North Florida), “Power in the Lesser Hippias” — Commentator: David Ebrey (Northwestern University)

Organizer

Zenon Culverhouse

Keynote Speakers

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Yancy Dominick (Seattle University), “No Small Risk: Images in the Cratylus” David Ebrey “The Enemies of Stable Being in the Cratylus”

Organizer

Naomi Reshotko

Keynote Speakers

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David Ebrey (Northwestern University), “A New Philosophical Tool in the Meno” Elaine Landry (University of California, Davis), “Recollection and the Mathematician’s Method in Plato's Meno?”

Organizer

Nick Smith

Keynote Speakers

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Mark Ralkowski, “The Politics of the Phaedo" — Commentator: Josh Wilburn (University of Victoria) Mark McPherran, "Socrates and Aesop" — Commentator: John Ferrari (University of California, Berkeley)

Organizer

Monte Johnson

Keynote Speakers

Coleen Zoller (Susquehanna University), “Nectar and Ambrosia for Plato’s Philosophers”

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Organizer

David Ebrey

Keynote Speakers

Speakers

• Dominic Bailey (University of Colorado, Boulder), “Megaricism and the Secret Doctrine” — Commentator:
• David Ebrey (University of California, Berkeley), “Three Problems with the Royal Art”
Carrie Swanson (Rutgers University), "Self-refutation in Plato’s Euthydemus"

Organizers

Rachana Kamtekar and Jan Szaif

Keynote Speakers

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David Ebrey (University of California, Berekeley), “Socrates and Plato on the Value of Knowledge”