Poetry and Philosophy in the Light of Plato's Republic X
January 7th – 8th 2008 (Department of Philosophy, University of Bergen; Sydneshaugen 12-13, room 218)
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Monday January 7th
09.00 - 09.15 Welcome and opening
09.15 – 10.15 Hayden Ausland: On the Continuity of Republic X with the Argument of Books 2-9 (with special reference to Socrates' restatement of his earlier criticism of mimetic poetry)
10.15 – 10.30 Coffee break
10.30 – 11.30 Halvard Fossheim: Plato on imitation and knowledge
11.30 – 12.30 Sarah Worth, "Plato, Imitation, and Narration: a look into the narrative
effects of literature"
12.30 - 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 14.30 Kristian Larsen: Mimesis as living; the quarrel between philosophy and sophistry. The opening question of the Sophist seen in the light of the Republic X
14.30 - 15.30 Erlend Breidal, Plato's concept of filosofia as a kind of picturemaking? Mimêsis in Republic X and the Sophist
15.30 – 15.45 Coffee break
15.45 – 16.45 Kristin Sampson, Mimetic creation in the 10th book of the Republic
19.00 Dinner
Tuesday January 8th
09.00 – 10.00 Cynthia Freeland, Nearer means Bigger: Artistic Imitations and
Pleasure-Illusions in Republic X and the Philebus
10.00 – 11.00 Viggo Rossvær: Socratic reverie. Was Socrates a thinker or a dreamer?
11.00 – 11.15 Coffee break
11.15 – 12.00 Vigdis Songe-Møller: Memory and Mourning: a Threat to Plato´s Philosophy?
12.00 – 13.00 Lunch
13.00 – 14.00 Knut Ågotnes: Objects of imitation and objects of reflection. Charmides vs Republic X
14.00 – 15.00 Morten Opsal, Cratylus and the critic of poetry
15.00 – 15.15 Coffee break
15.15 – 16.15 Ellen Mortensen, Poetic Bewitching: Nietzsche contra Plato on the Value of Poetry