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Poetry and Philosophy in the Light of Plato´s Sophist

Department of Philosophy, University of Bergen, 14-16 May, 2013

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Tuesday, May 14th

Room 208/209, Sydnesplassen 12/13

Chair: Elena Irrera

12.00 – 13.30         Lunch

13.30 – 13.45         Welcome by Vigdis Songe-Møller

13.45 – 15.15         Keynote lecture by John Sallis, “Plato's Sophist:  A Different Look”

15.30 – 16.45         Erlend Breidal: Title to be published later

 

Wednesday, May 15th

Room 904, Lauritz Meltzers Hus, Fosswinckels gate 6.

Chair: Hayden Ausland

09.15 -  10.30        Drew Hyland: "Strange Encounters: Socrates, Theodorus, Theaetetus, and the Eleatic Stranger".

10.45 – 12.00         Jens Kristian Larsen, “The Virtue of Power”

12.00 – 13.00         Gro Rørstadbotten: “Hunt as Paradigmatic Example: Method or Metaphor?”

12.45 – 13.45         Lunch

13.45 – 15.00         Kristin Sampson: “A Third Option: Mixture and Musicality” 

15.15 – 16.30         Hallvard Fossheim: “Mimesis and Not-Being”

19.00                      Dinner

 

Thursday, May 16th

Room 904, Lauritz Meltzers Hus, Fosswinckels gate 6.

Chair: Øyvind Rabbås

09.15 – 10.30         Cynthia Freeland: “True and False Images in the Sophist”

10.45 – 12.00         Atle Ytrehus, “Socrates’ Silence and Ungrounded Thinking in the Sophist”

12.00 – 14.00         Lunch / Project meeting

14.00 – 15.15         Lars Holm-Hansen: “Logos as Making Manifest”

15.30 – 16.45         Vigdis Songe-Møller: “Socrates, the Stranger and Parmenides in Plato’s Sophist: Two Troubled Relationships”

 

Registration to Kirsten.Bang@fof.uib.no. Deadline 15 April 2013.