<B> International Meeting: Philosophy and Mathematics - Plato</BR> Definition, Power(s), Division </I><BR>

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