12th Annual West Coast Plato Conference

Colleagues,

You are invited to attend the 12thAnnual West Coast Plato Workshop, to be held at San Diego State University on 24-26 May. Please see the program below.

If you plan to attend, it would be a kindness to the organizers (and we will have adequate water and coffee for you) if you would let us know. Please feel free to communicate with me, if you have any questions or concerns.

Sincerely,

Mark

Mark R. Wheeler, Ph.D.

Associate Professor and Chair

Director, SDSU Institute of Ethics and Public Affairs

Department of Philosophy

[email protected]

619-582-5893

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12thAnnnual West Coast Plato Workshop

San Diego State University, 24-26 May

Program

Friday (May 24)

3-4:30pm: Drinks and Refreshments

5-6:30pm: Keynote Public Lecture: Deborah Modrak (University of Rochester)

7-9pm: Dinner for Speakers, Commentators, and Chairs

Saturday (May 25)

9-9:30am: Coffee and Refreshments

9:30-10:45: Invited Speaker: Adam Beresford (University of Massachusetts at Boston)

Commentator: Jan Szaif (University of California at Davis)

11-12:10pm: Oksana Maksymchuk (University of Arkansas): An Anthropological Defense of the Measure Doctrine in the Protagoras

Commentator: Grant Dowling (Stanford University)

12:15-1:30pm: Lunch and Business Meeting

1:45-2:55: Marta Jimenez (Emory University): Protagoras and Socrates on Courage and Knowledge

Commentator: Ryan Drake (Fairfield University)

3:05-4:15: Aliza Ashraf (Queens College, City University of New York): Equality in Love: The Education of Lover and Beloved in Plato’s Protagoras

Commentator: Eric Morelli (Point Loma Nazarene College)

4:15-5:30pm: Invited Speaker: Clerk Shaw (University of Tennessee at Knoxville): Motivational Conflict and the Moral Paradox in Plato's Protagoras

Commentator: Blythe Greene (University of California at San Diego)

6pm: Dinner for speakers, commentators, and chairs

Sunday (May 26)

9-9:30am: Coffee and Refreshments

9:30-10:45: Carissa Phillips-Garrett (Loyola Marymount University): Socratic Intellectualism in theProtagoras

Commentator: David Hoinski (West Virginia University)

10:55-12:05pm: Eric Brown (Washington University in St. Louis): Protagoreanism in the Protagoras

Commentator: Brooks Sommerville (University of British Columbia)

12:15-1:30pm: Lunch

1:40-2:50: Suzanne Obdrzalek (Claremont McKenna College): Evaluative Illusion in the Protagoras

Commentator: Thomas Slabon (Stanford University)

3-4:10: Reid Comstock (University of Notre Dame): What Kind of Ignorance Makes One Akratic? (Protagoras356c-357e)

Commentator: Roy Lee (Stanford University)

5:30pm: Dinner for speakers, commentators, and chairs