International Meeting: Philosophy and Mathematics - Plato
Definition, Power(s), Division
International Meeting: Philosophy and Mathematics - Plato
Definition, Power(s), Division
July 12th and 13th, 2019
École Normale Supérieure
45, rue d'Ulm
75005 Paris
Program
Abstracts
LECTURES
Luc Brisson (CNRS/ENS/PSL) and Salomon Ofman (CNRS/IMJ-PRG/SU/UP):
Dynameis in mathematics and dynameis in the soul in the Theaeteus
Elisabetta Cattanei (Università degli Studi di Genova):
The Two Sides of the Metretike in Plato’s Statesman
Gaetano Chiurazzi (Università di Torino):
« Comme tu as su comprendre leur pluralité sous l’unité d’une forme »
(Théétète, 148d) : dynamis et logos dans le
Théétète
Carmen Di Lorenzo (University of Salerno):
Number as “horizontal divider” in the Philebus
Terence Echterling (Michigan State University):
What Did Theodorus Draw?
Mary-Louise Gill (Brown University):
The Varieties of Platonic Division
Debra Nails (Michigan State University):
The Mathematical Milieu of Socrates and Plato
Anna Pavani (University of Cologne/Brown University):
Trying to catch the sophist. On the explanatory power of the eight divisions in Plato’s Sophist
Pauline Sabrier (Sun Yat-Sen University):
Divisions and Great Kinds in the Central Sections of Plato’s Sophist
Sophia Stone (Lynn University):
Arithmetic and Geometric Relations in Plato’s Metaphysics
Roman Svetlov (Herzen university in St. Petersburg):
Computation and mathematical joke in the Statesman