Poetry and Philosophy in the Light of Plato’s Laws
MAY 24TH AND 25TH 2011; Department of Philosophy, University of Bergen; Sydneshaugen 12-13, room 210
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Tuesday May 24th
09.00 - 09.15 Welcome and Opening
09.15 – 10.45 Julia Annas, “The Challenge to which Magnesia is the Answer”
Comments by Øyvind Rabbås
10.45 – 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 – 12.00 Knut Ågotnes, “Who is the Athenian? Epistemological Positions in the Laws”
Comments by Erik Christensen
12.00 – 13.00 Lunch
13.00 – 14.00 Hallvard Fossheim, ”Plato's Rhetoric of Law”
Comments by Franco Trivigno
14.00 - 15.00 Hayden Ausland, "The Poetics of Freedom in Plato's Laws"
Comment by Erlend Breidal
15.00 – 15.15 Coffee break
15.15 – 16.15 Gro Rørstadbotten, The Laws and Recollection
Comments by Lars Petter Torjussen
19.00 Dinner
Wednesday May 25th
09.15 – 10.45 Paul Woodruff, "Old Men Dancing: Plato's Inversion of the Tragic Chorus"
Comments by Lars Morten Gram
10.45 – 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 – 12.00 Kristin Sampson, "Music in the Laws"
Comments by Vigdis Songe-Møller
12.00 – 13.00 Lunch
13.00 – 14.00 Jens Kristian Larsen, "Tragic Reasoning on the Nature of Man: the Athenian Stranger on the Politics of Souls"
Comments by Elena Irrera
14.00 – 15.00 Jason Taylor, “Cicero's Reception of Plato's Laws"
Comments by Amund Børdahl