Philosophy Weekend: Plato's "Parmenides"

Programme (tentative):

Friday evening

8.15-09.00 Nora Reid: “The Relevance of Anaxagoras”

9.00-10.00 Ron Partridge: “TBA”

Saturday morning

9.30-10.20 Ann Everett: “Consider the title of Plato’s Dialogue!”

10.20-11.10 Monica Tobon: “On the Relations between Parts I & II Plato’s Dialogue”

Coffee Break

11.40-13.00 Debate: “The Real Issue in Parmenides”

Lunch Break

14.00-15.00 Brendan O Byrne: “Platonius’s Use of Plato’s Parmenides and the

Beginnings of Neo-Platonism” 

Saturday evening

18.30 onwards Evening Meal to be fixed at a restaurant in Canterbury

Sunday morning

9.30-10.30 Phil Walden: “Hegel on Parmenides”

10.30-11.45 Julius Tomin: “TBA”

Coffee Break

12.15-13.15 Rôbert Jack: “Socrates: Young and Old”

Sunday afternoon

14.15-15.15 Rose Stark: “Kafka’s Castle and Parmenides”

15.15-15.30 The Future of NoBoss

15.30-15.45 Afternoon Tea and Farewells

Basic Texts:

• "The Dialogues of Plato: Parmenides" (2nd. ed.) tr. by R.E. Allen Yale UP 1997
• Kafka's "The Castle"

Cost: £99 or £115 (for better accommodation)

Tea & Coffee breaks not included in the cost nor evening meal on Friday and Saturday evening. The charge is for b & b for two nights only plus room use in either Rutherford or Tyler college. Lunches on Saturday and Sunday are paid for separately.

Deposit of £35 and suggestions for papers to be forwarded by July 5th, 2012. Reservations will be made at a local restaurant for Saturday evening at a cost not included in the accommodation price.

For further details please contact Noel E. Boulting at [email protected]