CFP: Plato’s Moral Psychology

We invite papers on the nature of the soul; pleasure, pain, akrasia, egoism, the form of the good, virtue and eudaimonism, politics, erôs, and psychology in general. We welcome all perspectives, from analytic approaches, to historical treatments, to questions of reception and traditions of interpretation.

Please send abstracts of no more than 500 words by Friday 30 March 2012 by email at [email protected] Because the program committee will conduct a blind review of abstracts, please include your name, affiliation, and contact information only in the email, not on the attached abstract. Participants will be notified of program committee decisions by Monday 30 April 2012. Those presenting papers will be expected to join the IPS if they are not already members.

The conference will take place over the course of Friday morning through Sunday evening on the Ann Arbor campus of the University of Michigan. The Classical Studies Department oversees the largest papyrology collection in North America and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, both important components of our programs in classics and major attractions for visiting scholars. A reception at the Kelsey Museum and an introduction to the papyrology collection are planned for the conference.