What's on at The Plato Centre
The next meeting of the Weekly Reading Seminar will take place at 4:00pm on Wednesday 6 March 2013 in the Plato Centre Seminar Room, 1937 Reading Room, Front Square, Trinity College Dublin. At this meeting we will continue with our reading of Plato's Symposium in preparation for the meeting of the International Plato Society this summer in Pisa. All are welcome.
On Friday 8 March 2013 Dr. Roman Dilcher of Universität Heidelberg will address the Centre. Dr. Dilcher's talk, "Heraclitus' Epistemology (esp. fragment B56)" will take place at 4:00pm in the Plato Centre Seimar Room, 1937 Reading Room, Front Square, Trinity College Dublin. All are welcome.
The Plato Centre is delighted to announce the 2013 Stephen MacKenna Lecture, which will be delivered by Professor Paul Kalligas, Department of Philosophy and History of Science, University of Athens. Professor Kalligas' lecture, "From energeia to energy: Plotinus and the formation of the notion of energy," will take place on Thursday 4 April 2013 at 8:00pm in the Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre, Long Room Hub Building, Fellows' Square, Trinity College Dublin. All are welcome.
On Friday 19 April 2013 Professor Panos Dimas, University of Oslo and Director of Norwegian Institute Athens, will address the Centre. Professor Dimas' talk, the topic of which will be determined at a later date, will be held in the Plato Centre Seminar Room, 1937 Reading Room, Front Square, Trinity College Dublin. All are welcome.
The Plato Centre will host its annual intensive reading seminar the week of 20–24 May 2013. The text for this year's seminar is Plato's Theaetetus. Sessions will run each day from roughly 9:00am to 4:00pm, and will be held in the Plato Centre Seminar Room, 1937 Reading Room, Front Square, Trinity College Dublin. A detailed reading plan will be distributed at the fist session. All are welcome.
We are happy to welcome a volume of collected papers from Associate Director of the Centre, Professor Andrew Smith, Plotinus, Porphyry and Iamblichus: Philosophy and Religion in Neoplatonism, Ashgate/Variorum: Farnham, 2012, a valuable collection of papers covering more than thirty years of scholarly activity.
We are glad to announce the recent publication of The Cyrenaics (Acumen, Durham 2012), by Dr. Ugo Zilioli who was a research associate of the Centre for the years 2008–10. Ugo has produced a fine study of Aristippus and the Cyrenaic School, giving due attention not just to their hedonistic theories, but also to their interesting epistemological position of indeterminacy. The Platonic Centre does not officially approve of Aristippus, of course, but we salute Ugo on a fine piece of work, which brings out, among other things, the many–facated legacy of Socrates.
We are happy to welcome the fine monograph of Christoph Helmig, who was a fellow of the Centre from 1998–2000, and is now Professor Ordinarius in Cologne.
Forms and Concepts: Concept Formation in the Platonic Tradition, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2012.
As the title suggests, this is a comprehensive study of Platonic and later Platonist theories of concept–formation and knowledge acquisition, starting from Plato himself and culminating in a study of Proclus. We congratulate him warmly on this achievement.