Perspectives on Character and Truth: conference in honour of Raphael Woolf

May 7, 2026 - May 8, 2026
Department of Philosophy, King's College London

Nash Lecture Theatre (KIN 205)
King's College London
Strand WC2R 2LS
United Kingdom

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  • Foundation for Platonic Studies

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LMU Munich
King's College London
Yale University
King's College London
University College London
King's College London
King's College London
(unaffiliated)
King's College London

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King's College London
King's College London
King's College London

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Programme:  
Thursday, 7 May 2026
10:00-11:30 Fiona Leigh (UCL) - Soul turning: Desiderative Self-knowledge and Courage in Alcibiades I & Republic
11:45-13:15 Branislav Kotoc (KCL) - Say What You Believe: Sincerity Condition in Plato
14:30-16:00 Verity Harte (Yale) - Purity and Truth in Plato's Philebus
16:30-18:00 Joachim Aufderheide (KCL) - Meditations on Dreaming in Plato’s Republic  
Friday, 8 May 2026
10:00-11:30 Jorge Torres (UC Chile) - Plato's Typology of Characters
11:45-13:15 Taichi Miura (Chubu) - Socrates’ Treatment of Charmides and Critias: Character, Philosophical Therapy, and Its Failure in Plato’s Charmides
14:30-16:00 Peter Adamson (LMU) - Going Through the Motions: Religious Belief, Practice, and Custom from Cicero to Pascal
16:30-18:00 M.M. McCabe (KCL) - How to Do Things with Birds
18:00 Raphael Woolf - In Praise of Quiet Corners (Closing remarks)

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May 5, 2026, 9:00am BST

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