FLORIDA ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY WORKSHOP: PLATO’S LAWS

Saturday, November 14

9:00-10:00 am, Mariana Noe (University of Arizona), “In What Way Is Magnesia an elenchos?”

10:15-11:15 am, Eric Solis (University of Alabama), “The Assistance of nomos to logismos in Plato’s Laws”

11:30 am-12:30 pm, Thanassis Samaras (University of Georgia), “Moral Theory, Traditions of Political Genealogy and the Constitutional Order of the Laws”

2:45-3:45 pm, Ryan Balot (University of Toronto), “The Role of Philosophers in Plato’s Magnesia”

4:00-5:00 pm, Nicholas Baima and Sarah Malanowski (Florida Atlantic University), “Socratic Madness and Responsibility in Plato’s Laws”

Sunday, November 15

9:00-10:00 am, Ana Bélen Casanueva (Universidad Panamericana), “Soul as Motion, Life, and Cognition in Laws X”

10:15-11:15 am, Michael Hudecki (University of Ottawa), “Challenging the ‘Craftsman Model’ of Nature in Laws X”

11:30 am-12:30 pm, Thornton Lockwood (University of Florida), “Natural Justice in Laws X (and EN V.7)”

The organizers would like to thank the Classics, Philosophy, and Political Science Departments, the Hamilton School, and the Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere for their generous support.