Programme - XI Symposium Platonicum: Plato`s Phaedo

Executive Committee
President
Gabriele Cornelli
President
Francisco Bravo (Universidad Central de Venezuela)
Vice President
Tom Robinson (University of Toronto)
Ex-President
Mauro Tulli (Università degli Studi di Pisa)
Next President
Luc Brisson (CNRS - UPR76 Centre Jean-Pépin, Paris)
Next President
Arnaud Macé (Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon)
Next President
Olivier Renaut (Université Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense)
Representative for Europe
Francesco Fronterotta (La Sapienza – Università di Roma)
Representative for Europe
Mary Margaret McCabe, King’s College, London
Representative for North America
Verity Harte, Yale University, New Haven
Representative for Latin America
Raul Gutierrez (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú)
Representative for Asia, Australia, and Africa
Yuji Kurihara (Tokyo Gagukei University)
Representative for the C. J. de Vogel Foundation
Carlos Steel (Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven)
Advisory Board to the
Executive Committee
Editorial Committee
Brasilia Organizing
Committee
Tomás Calvo (Universidad Complutense, Madrid)
John Dillon (Trinity College, Dublin)
Michael Erler (Julius Maximilians - Universität Würzburg,
Würzburg)
Shinro Kato (Tokyo Metropolitan University)
Noburu Notomi (Keio University, Tokyo)
Thomas M. Robinson (University of Toronto)
Livio Rossetti (Università di Perugia)
Christopher Rowe (Durham University)
† Samuel Scolnicov (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Franco Ferrari (Salerno) - Coordinator
Beatriz Bossi (Madrid)
Richard Parry (Atlanta)
Dimitri El Murr (Paris)
Filip Karfìk (Fribourg)
Officers
Gabriele Cornelli (president@platosociety.org) – President
(Brasília)
Rodolfo Lopes – Vice President (Brasília)
Ália Rodrigues (secretary@plato2016.org) – Secretary (Brasília)
Board
Dennys G. Xavier (Uberlândia)
Fernando Muniz (Rio de Janeiro)
Fernando Santoro (Rio de Janeiro)
Francisco Bravo (Caracas)
Graciela E. Marcos (Buenos Aires)
Guilherme Motta (Rio de Janeiro)
Loraine Oliveira (Brasília)
Luca Pitteloud (São Paulo)
Marcelo Marques (Belo Horizonte)
Maria Aparecida Montenegro (Fortaleza)
Maria Cecília de Miranda Coelho (Belo Horizonte)
Nicholas Riegel (Brasília)
Renato Matoso (Brasília)
Monday | 4th
Entrance Hall
Registration
10.00 AM
Auditorium
Opening Ceremony
11.00 AM
Auditorium
Beatriz Bossi
9.00 AM
Plenary Session 1
Chair: Rodolfo Lopes
Back to the cock: on gratitude and care
Annie Larivée
Socrates as ‘Political Asklepios’ in the
Phaedo
1.00 PM
Lunch
2.00 PM
Anf. I
Parallel Session 1
Chair: Franco Ferrari
Irmgard Maennlein-Robert
Von der Höhle in den Himmel: Der
Philosoph im Jenseitsmythos des Phaidon
oder Sokrates im Glück.
Harold Tarrant
Argument from Similarity or Socrates’
Inspired Vision Part I?
Oscar Velásquez
ἐν φιλοσοφίᾳ: Proposal about the
Methodological Disposition of the Phaedo
Francisco Gonzalez
Why the Minotaur is Misology
Anf. II
Parallel Session 2
Chair: Richard Patterson
Hallvard Fossheim
Reading Socrates’ Drama of Death: Grief
and Argument in the Phaedo
Roslyn Weiss
Fear of Death in Plato’s Phaedo (and
Apology)
Monday | 4th
(2.00 PM)
Radcliffe Edmonds
The Song of the Nightingale: Word Play
on the Road to Hades in Plato’s Phaedo
Fulvia de Luise
Il canto del cigno di Socrate.
Una celebrazione della morte?
Conf. II
Parallel Session 3
Chair: Cecília Coelho
Daniel Graham
Plato’s Scientific Manifesto
Gustavo Barbosa
Due concezioni di dimostrazioni nel
Fedone
Manfred Kraus
Dokein, Doxa and Eikos in the Phaedo
Donald Morrison
Egoism and Benevolence in the Phaedo
4.00 PM
Coffee break
4.30 PM
Anf. I
Parallel Session 4
Chair: Marcelo Boeri
Karine Tordo Rombaut
Qu’est-ce qui, dans la question de
l’anonyme, a pu troubler Socrate (Phéd.
103 a 4-c5)?
Lidia Palumbo
Filosofia e narrazione. Il caso del Fedone
Francesc Casadesús
La definición del verdadero filósofo en el
Fedón o cómo construir una ortodoxia
filosófica a partir de una heterodoxia
religiosa
Monday | 4th
(4.30 PM)
Anf. II
Parallel Session 5
Chair: Evaldo Sampaio
Arianna Fermani
Rivals and winners in the “evil contest”
(πονηρίας ἀγὼν). Reflections on the
spirals and on the many facets of evil in
Plato’s Phaedo
Lorenzo Ferroni
Maximus Planudes as a copyist, reader,
and editor of Plato’s Phaedo
Ivana Costa
“La comparación no me parece exacta”.
Fedón 99e6-100a3 y la respuesta platónica
a un dilema posmoderno
Conf. II
Parallel Session 6
Chair: Anna Motta
Michele Corradi
Il Fedone e la memoria dell’Apologia
di Socrate: a proposito di una raffinata
strategia letteraria
Mario Regali
La maschera di Socrate nel Fedone
Marco Antonio Santamaría Álvarez
Apology, Crito and Phaedo: Socrates’ tragic
trilogy
6.00 PM
Auditorium
Keynote Lecture 1
C. De Vogel Lecture
Chair: Gabriele Cornelli
8.00 PM
National Museum
Welcome cocktail
Monique Dixsaut
La mort, estimons-nous que c’est quelque
chose ?
Tuesday | 5th
9.00 AM
Anf. I
Parallel Session 7
Chair: Noburu Notomi
María Angélica Fierro
The Platonic epoidê against the
volatilization of the soul: Rationalisation,
simplification and ontological stability in
the Phaedo
David Ebrey
The Cloak Maker Objection and the Final
Immortality Argument
Satoshi Ogihara
Immortality and eternity: Cebes’ remark
at Plato’s Phaedo 106d2-4
Anf. II
Parallel Session 8
Chair: Dennys Xavier
Geneviève Lachance
La figure du philosophe: entre réalité et
apparence
Alonso Tordesillas
Socrate et les antilogikoi
Andrew German
Socratic Iconography: Two Examples in
the Phaedo
Conf. II
Parallel Session 9
Chair: Emmanuelle JouëtPastré
Suzanne Obdrzalek
The Extended Soul in Plato’s Phaedo
Cynthia Patterson
Body/Soul Metaphors in the Phaedo
Marcelo Boeri
‘To act and to be acted upon’ in
the Phaedo: is there any kind of
interactionism between soul and body?
10.30 AM
Coffee break
Tuesday | 5th
11.00 AM
Auditorium
Plenary Session 2
Chair: Olivier Renaut
1.00 PM
Lunch
2.00 PM
Anf. I
Parallel Session 10
Chair: Maria Angélica Fierro
Barbara Sattler
Sufficient Reason in the Phaedo
Graciela Marcos de Pinotti
¿Cuántos y quiénes “recuerdan”? El doble
alcance de la reminiscencia en Fedón
72e-77a)
Anne Schultz
A Story to Live and Die For: Socratic
Autobiography in the Phaedo
Gerard Naddaf
The “young” historical Socrates in
Phaedo 96a-99d; a re-examination of the
controversial “autobiography”
Lloyd Gerson
Socrates’ Autobiography: An Epitome of
Platonism
Anf. II
Parallel Session 11
Chair: Ália Rodrigues
Olga Alieva
How Plato Saved Pleasure for Philosophy
Paulo Lima
Socrates’ Comparison Between Μισολογία
and Μισανθρωπία (Plato’s Phaedo 89c1190d8)
Makoto Sekimura
Survenue de la beauté et illusion
skiagraphique dans le Phédon
Tuesday | 5th
(2.00 PM)
Conf. II
Parallel Session 12
Chair: Alonso Tordesillas
Vasilis Politis
Plato on the Origin and Development of
the Theory of Forms
Thomas Tuozzo
Sense Perception and Explanation in the
Phaedo
Luca Pitteloud
Le Phédon et les deux paradigmes de la
séparation
3.30 PM
Coffee break
4.00 PM
Anf. I
Parallel Session 13
Chair: Fernando Santoro
Andrea Capra
Socrates’ conversions and the Phaedo’s
‘(anti-)Aristotelian’ poetics
François Renaud
L’autorité d’Homère et de la tradition dans
le Phédon
Anf. II
Parallel Session 14
Chair: Nastassja Pugliese
Silvio Marino
Socrate fisico delle idee? Semantica
eidetica e semantica fisica nel Fedone
Federico Maria Petrucci
There Should Be a Virtue for Everyone.
Non-Philosophical Virtue in the Phaedo
Chad Jorgenson
Philosophical and Political Virtue in the
Phaedo and Afterwards
Tuesday | 5th
(4.00 PM)
Conf. II
Parallel Session 15
Chair: Filippo Forcignanò
Michael Shaw
Anaxagoras in the Phaedo
Nicola Galgano
Socrate e Anassagora, vecchie risposte e
nuove domande
Simon Trepanier
Empedocles in the Phaedo: Scare-quote
Pythagoreanism?
5.30 PM
Auditorium
Keynote Lecture 2
Chair: Tom Robinson
8.00 PM
Alberto Bernabé Pajares
Describir el Más Allá. Consideraciones
sobre el mito del Fedón
International Plato Society Concert
Symphonic Orchestra of the National
Theater
Centro Cultural da ADUnB
Wednesday | 6th
9.00 AM
Anf. I
Parallel Session 16
Chair: Giovanni Casertano
Sophia Stone
Being in the Phaedo
Noburu Notomi
The Soul and Forms in Plato’s Phaedo
Renato Brandão
On The Translation and Meaning of
Phaedo 74 b7-9
Anf. II
Parallel Session 17
Chair: Franco Trabattoni
Laura Candiotto
Feeling memories. The epistemic role of
erotic visual perception in the recollection
argument (Phaed. 73d5–74a1)
Hua-kuei Ho
The Role of Perception in the Recollection
in the Phaedo
Marisa Divenosa
La tensión psykhé-sôma en Fedón y
las implicaciones de lo sensible en el
conocimiento de lo real
Conf. II
Parallel Session 18
Chair: Miriam Campolina
Georgia Mouroutsou
Are the Phaedo’s Pleasures of Learning
Pure Pleasures?
Richard Parry
Illusions of Pleasure
Dino de Sanctis
Socrate e le lacrime dei philoi: emozioni e
catarsi nel Fedone
Wednesday | 6th
10.30 AM
Coffee break
11.00 AM
Auditorium
Plenary Session 3
Chair: Mauro Tulli
Kathryn Morgan
Paying the Price: The Coinage Metaphor
at Phaedo 69a-d
Edward Halper
The Currency of Virtue: Phaedo 68c-69d
1.00 PM
Lunch
2.30 PM
Brasilia City Tour
7.00 PM
Brasilia Palace Hotel
Executive Committee Meeting
Lucio Costa Room
Editorial Committee Meeting
Sarah Kubitschek Room
Thursday | 7th
9.00 AM
Auditorium
Keynote Lecture 3
David Sedley
The Last Argument
Chair: Beatriz Bossi
10.00 AM
Auditorium
Book Reviews 1
Chair: Franco Ferrari
10.30 AM
Coffee Break
11.00 AM
Auditorium
Plenary Session 4
Chair: Arnaud Macé
Richard Parry
D. El Murr, Savoir et gouverner (Paris
2015)
G. Fine, The Possibility of Inquiry (Oxford
2014)
Rafael Ferber
Deuteros Plous
Franco Trabattoni
La ‘prima navigazione’ nel Fedone
1.00 PM
Lunch
2.00 PM
Anf. I
PhD Session 1, in memory
of Samuel Scolnicov
Chair: Marcelo Marques
Maicon Engler
On Plato’s interpretation of his own
philosophy: Phaedo’s testimony on the
diaphorá between poetry and philosophy
Richard Schorlemmer
The Phaedo between Orphic-Pythagorean
images and early Hellenistic philosophers
Manlio Fossati
The soul in the Phaedo: Socrates’ evidence
for its intrinsically intelligent nature
Thursday | 7th
Mitsuyoshi Nomura
(2.00 PM)
First Hypothesis in Plato’s Phaedo
Anf. II
Giovanni Vella
Chair: Harold Tarrant
Amos Espeland
PhD Session 2, in memory
of Samuel Scolnicov
Destino e morte metafórica nel Fedone
Non-Philosophical Virtue in Plato’s
Phaedo
Michal Tarasiewicz
La multiplicité des lectures et l’unité de
la structure du mythe final du Phédon
(107c-114c)
Taichi Miura
The immortality and imperishability of
the soul: Plato’s final proof of the soul’s
immortality in Phaedo (102a-107b)
Conf. II
PhD Session 3, in memory
of Samuel Scolnicov
Chair: Richard Parry
Francesca Scrofani
Etymological associations and the imagery
of invisible in Plato’s Phaedo
Natalia Rugnitz
El último consejo del daimón y la duda de
Sócrates (Fedón, 60d-61b)
Rodolfo Arbe
El anonimato de Platón. Un examen sobre
la figura del alocutuario anónimo en el
Fedón
Thomas Davies
The Theory of Forms as Natural
Philosophy
Thursday | 7th
(2.00 PM)
Room 109c
PhD Session 4, in memory
of Samuel Scolnicov
Chair: Graciela Marcos de
Pinotti
Mariana Gardella
“Contra dos ni Heracles puede” (Phd.
89c5-6). El tratamiento platónico de la
antilogía en el Fedón
Ni Yu
Immortality of soul and form of soul
(Plato, Phaedo, 100b-107a)
André Luiz Braga
Life rather than arguments: resailing
Socrates’ second sailing
Aditi Chaturvedi
Soul as ἁρμονία: Phaedo (85e 3 ff.) and its
Pre-Platonic antecedents
Room 110c
PhD Session 5, in memory
of Samuel Scolnicov
Chair: Francesc Casadesús
Tonguc Seferoglu
What Do We Know?: Research Method
and Philosophical Purpose of Plato’s
Phaedo
Hugh MacKenzie
Univocalising sumphonein in the Deuteros
Plous explanation
Christian Keime
The use of Repeating an Argument.
Metamorphoses of the Theory of Forms in
the Phaedo
Marco Romani Mistretta
Platonic Hypotheses: Galileo’s “Analytic
Method” and the Phaedo
Thursday | 7th
4.00 PM
Coffee break
4.30 PM
General Assembly
8.00 PM
Conference dinner
Restaurant Rubaiyat
Friday | 8th
9.00 AM
Anf. I
Parallel Session 19
Chair: David Runia
Filip Karfik
L’âme et la Forme de la vie
Filippo Forcignanò
Experiences without Self-justification:
the “Sticks and Stones” Argument in the
Phaedo
Lucas Soares
La relación de compatibilidad entre
los paradigmas poéticos platónico y
tradicional en la anécdota del sueño de
Sócrates en el Fedón
Anf. II
Parallel Session 20
Chair: Edrisi Fernandes
María Gabriela Casnati
El concepto de ἐπωνυμία en el argumento
final de la inmortalidad del alma
Lenka Karfikova
The soul and life – the soul and ratio
Augustine’s criticism of the final proof in
Plato’s Phaedo
Matthew Walker
Socrates’ Final Symposium
Conf. II
Parallel Session 21
Chair: Marcelo Boeri
Mariella Menchelli
Filosofia, vita filosofica e ordine
dell’anima: le occupazioni del filosofo e
dell’anima a Phaed. 64 a, Phaed. 84 b e
l’ascesa del filosofo nel Simposio
William H. F. Altman
Plato’s Phaedo and “the Art of Glaucus”:
Transcending the Distortions of
Developmentalism
Friday | 8th
Sebastian Odzuck
(9.00 AM)
What, according to the Phaedo, is the
appropriate explanation of actions
10.30 AM
Coffee Break
11.00 AM
Auditorium
Plenary Session 5
Chair: Renato Matoso
Marcelo Marques
The exchange of pleasures and pains in the
Phaedo
David Runia
The Middle Platonist and HellenisticJewish Reception of Plato’s Phaedo: The
case of Philo of Alexandria
1.00 PM
Lunch
2.00 PM
Anf. I
Parallel Session 22
Chair: Yuji Kurihara
Fernando Santoro
Dioniso smembrato dai Titani.
Commentario al Fedone di Platone di
Olimpiodoro di Alessandria
Grant Dowling
Why Does Socrates Characterize
Anaxagorean Mind Differently than
Simplicius?
Anna Motta
Strategie esegetiche neoplatoniche: qual è
lo skopos del Fedone?
Emilia de Morais
Las “doctrinas antiguas y santas” en el
Fedón: ‘inconclusiones’
Friday | 8th
(2.00 PM)
Anf. II
Parallel Session 23
Chair: Maria Aparecida
Montenegro
Esteban Bieda
“Le debemos un gallo a Asclepio”. El
carácter político de la muerte de Sócrates
en el Fedón
Edrisi Fernandes
El “Bien Morir” Y El Fedón En La España
Quinientista
Yasuhira Kanayama
Socrates’ Last Words
Panagiotis Thanassas
What kind of death?” On Phaedo’s double
topic
Conf. II
Parallel Session 24
Chair: Lucas Soares
Richard Patterson
Metaphysics, Malaria, and Causality in the
Phaedo
Willie Costello
Platonic causes, in context
Rubens Sobrinho
Images of the Soul: Palingenesis and
Causality in Plato’s Phaedo
Cristina Rossitto
Socrate, Platone, Aristotele e la causalità
in Phaedo 97 B - 102 B
4.00 PM
Coffee break
Friday | 8th
4.30 PM
Anf. I
Parallel Session 25
Chair: Donald Morrison
Guilherme Mota
Are the Phaedo or Platonism lifedenying?
Marianna Koshkaryan
Le Phédon de Platon: les perspectives de
l’approche complexe (philosophique et
littéraire)
Brian Marrin
Socrates’ dēmōdē mousikēn: Mythos and
Logos in the Phaedo
Anf. II
Parallel Session 26
Chair: Luca Pitteloud
Jens Larsen
Saving the logos that saves our lives:
hypothesis as a raft
Irine Darchia
Re-thinking Plato’s Phaedo Using Digital
Methods
Nicole Ooms
Equal Sticks and Stones once more
Conf. II
Parallel Session 27
Chair: Michele Corradi
José Antonio Giménez
Esperanza, confianza y temor como
actitudes proposicionales en el Fedón
Carolina Araujo
Plato’s Phaedo on rational suicide
Eli Diamond
Pythagorean Mathematics, Platonic
Dialectic, and the Incompleteness of the
Second Sailing in Plato’s Phaedo
6.00 PM
Friday | 8th
Auditorium
Book Reviews 2
Chair: Beatriz Bossi
6.30 PM
Auditorium
Keynote Lecture 4
F. Karfik
G. Casertano, Platone, Fedone o sull’anima
(Napoli 2015)
C. Zafiroupoulos, Socrates and Aesop. A
Comparative Study of the Introduction of
Plato’s Phaedo (Sankt Augustin 2015)
Giovanni Casertano
Il Fedone, dramma etico in tre Atti
Chair: Luc Brisson
8.30 PM
Embassy of Greece in Brasilia
Farewell Cocktail
Procad - Leituras e Releituras
da Filosofia na Antiguidade