Postgraduate and Postdoctoral Work-in-Progress Seminar
On Monday 25 January Margaret Hampson presented her paper ‘Aristotle on the Nature of Habituation’.
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Events
Plato Centre Events
The Plato Centre hosts many functions throughout the academic year on various topics related to Plato, his philosophy and his legacy. The scope of events that are hosted by the Centre range from highly sepcialized talks by scholars who are doing cutting–edge work in ancient and contemproary philosophy to public events centred around the relevancy of Platonic and Platonist philosophy to the issues and problems of today.
Featured Events
Weekly Reading Seminar
The Weekly Reading Seminar meets on Fridays from 10am-12pm over Zoom. We are currently finishing Plato’s Statesman before turning to the Crito.
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Conference on Erōs and Philia in Plato and Aristotle
This event was held on Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 May 2021.
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Explore the Centre’s Past Events
Event Type
Year
Randall Curren, University of Rochester
A reconstruction of Aristotle’s conception of justice and its roots in Plato’s Laws
Event Type Visiting Speaker Colloquium
Monday 16 June 2014
Trinity Plato Centre Seminar Room 1937 Reading Room Trinity College Dublin
Paolo Fait, Oxford University
Adding and subtracting being: a ‘logical’ alternaive to ‘focal meaning’ (Aristotle Metaphysics Z4, 1030a17–1030b7)
Event Type Visiting Speaker Colloquium
Friday 6 March 2015
Trinity Plato Centre Seminar Room 1937 Reading Room Trinity College Dublin
Christopher Noble, LMU Munich
An argument for principle monism in Plotinus
Event Type Visiting Speaker Colloquium
Monday 15 February 2016
Room 5012 Arts Building Trinity College Dublin
Tim Crowley, University College Dublin
Aristotle on Elemental Change
Event Type Visiting Speaker Colloquium
Friday 14 November 2008
Trinity Plato Centre Seminar Room 1937 Reading Room Trinity College Dublin
Richard King, University of Glasgow
Aristotle on nature and explanation (Physics Book II)
Event Type Visiting Speaker Colloquium
Friday 21 November 2008
Trinity Plato Centre Seminar Room 1937 Reading Room Trinity College Dublin
Adam Crager, Princeton University
Aristotle on Terminating Demonstrations and Infinite Chains of Predication (Posterior Analytics I. 19–22)
Event Type Visiting Speaker Colloquium
Friday 17 May 2013
Trinity Plato Centre Seminar Room 1937 Reading Room Trinity College Dublin
Tom Angier, University of Kent
Aristotle, eudaimonia, and us
Event Type Visiting Speaker Colloquium
Friday 9 March 2012
Trinity Plato Centre Seminar Room 1937 Reading Room Trinity College Dublin
Qingyun Cao, Yunnan University
Aristotle’s Definition of Soul in DA II.1 from the perspective of Metaphysics Theta
Event Type Visiting Speaker Colloquium
Thursday 31 October 2019
Trinity Plato Centre Seimar Room 1937 Reading Room Trinity College Dublin
Alexandrine Schniewind
Becoming Intellect: A Challenge for the Individual Soul
Event Type Annual Stephen MacKenna Lecture
Wednesday 24 April 2017
Neill Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub Building
George Boys-Stones
Being the change you would like to see: A Platonist theory of personal identity
Event Type Annual Stephen MacKenna Lecture
Monday 21 May 2018
Neill Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub Building
André Laks, Paris, Sorbonne (IV)
Bones, Points, and the Soul: Articulating Aristotle’s De Motu Animalium
Event Type Visiting Speaker Colloquium
Monday 6 October 2014
Room 5012 Arts Building Trinity College Dublin
Gail Fine, Oxford University and Cornell University
Concepts and Inquiry: Sextus and the Epicureans
Event Type Visiting Speaker Colloquium
Wednesday 23 March 2011
Trinity Plato Centre Seminar Room 1937 Reading Room Trinity College Dublin
Cesare Catà, Università di Macerata
Cusanus: Platonic Thought Between Philosophy and Preaching
Event Type Visiting Speaker Colloquium
Friday 3 May 2013
Trinity Plato Centre Seminar Room 1937 Reading Room Trinity College Dublin
George Karamanolis
Dignitas: A Roman ethical concept
Event Type Annual Stephen MacKenna Lecture
Tuesday 14 May 2019
Mháirtin Ui Chadhain Theatre, Arts Builiding, Trinity College Dublin
Robert Zaborowski, University of Warmia and Mazury
Emotions in Early Plato
Event Type Visiting Speaker Colloquium
Friday 30 September 2011
Trinity Plato Centre Seminar Room 1937 Reading Room Trinity College Dublin
Lucas Angioni, University of Campinas
Explanation, per se relations, and necessary principles in Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics
Event Type Visiting Speaker Colloquium
Thursday 2 March 2017
Trinity Plato Centre Seminar Room 1937 Reading Room Trinity College Dublin
Paul Kalligas
From energeia to energy: Plotinus and the formation of the notion of energy
Event Type Annual Stephen MacKenna Lecture
Thursday 4 April 2013
Neill Lecture Theatre, Long Room Hub Building
Dominic Scott, University of Kent
From Painting to Poetry: Method in Republic 10
Event Type Visiting Speaker Colloquium
Friday 1 May 2015
Trinity Plato Centre Seminar Room 1937 Reading Room Trinity College Dublin
Mary Margaret McCabe, King’s College London
From the cradle to the cave: what happened to self–knowledge in the Republic?
Event Type Visiting Speaker Colloquium
Friday 29 November 2013
Trinity Plato Centre Seminar Room 1937 Reading Room Trinity College Dublin
Robert J. Hankinson, University of Texas, Austin
Galen and Alcinous on Analysis
Event Type Visiting Speaker Colloquium
Friday 21 May 2010
Trinity Plato Centre Seminar Room 1937 Reading Room Trinity College Dublin
Catherine Rowett, University of East Anglia
How come the rulers are the first to believe the Noble Lie?
Event Type Visiting Speaker Colloquium
Monday 4 February 2013
Trinity Plato Centre Seminar Room 1937 Reading Room Trinity College Dublin
How Many Times Did Plotinus have a Mystical Experience?
Event Type Annual Stephen MacKenna Lecture
Friday 30 April 2004
Classics Seminar Room, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin
Wiebke-Marie Stock, Free University Berlin
Images of the Soul in Plotinus
Event Type Visiting Speaker Colloquium
Wednesday 12 November 2010
Trinity Plato Centre Seminar Room 1937 Reading Room Trinity College Dublin
Arnis Ritups, Leuven
Infallible Intellect in Aristotle, the Commentators, and Plotinus
Event Type Visiting Speaker Colloquium
Friday 17 February 2012
Trinity Plato Centre Seminar Room 1937 Reading Room Trinity College Dublin
Pauliina Remes
Is personality of any interest for a Neoplatonic philosopher?
Event Type Annual Stephen MacKenna Lecture
Tuesday 12 April 2016
Synge Lecture Theatre, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin
Joachim Gentz, University of Edinburgh
Literary forms in Plato and early Chinese Philosophy
Event Type Visiting Speaker Colloquium
Tuesday 31 March 2015
Trinity Plato Centre Seminar Room 1937 Reading Room Trinity College Dublin
Luca Pitteloud, Federal University of ABC, São Paulo
Metaphysics in Plato’s Timaeus
Event Type Visiting Speaker Colloquium
Friday 22 January 2016
Trinity Plato Centre Seminar Room 1937 Reading Room Trinity College Dublin
Catherine Rowett, University of East Anglia
On Knowing what Virtue is (in Plato’s Meno)
Event Type Visiting Speaker Colloquium
Friday 14 January 2011
Trinity Plato Centre Seminar Room 1937 Reading Room Trinity College Dublin
Panos Dimas, University of Oslo
On Plato’s Gorgias
Event Type Visiting Speaker Colloquium
Friday 19 April 2013
Trinity Plato Centre Seminar Room 1937 Reading Room Trinity College Dublin
Harold Tarrant, University of Newcastle
On the Importance of the Derveni Papyrus for Platonism, with special attention to P.Derv. Col. V and Gorgias 493a-c
Event Type Visiting Speaker Colloquium
Wednesday 18 February 2009
Trinity Plato Centre Seminar Room 1937 Reading Room Trinity College Dublin
Benoît Castelnérac, Univesite de Sherbrooke
Parmenidean Motifs in Plato’s Charmides and Parmenides
Event Type Visiting Speaker Colloquium
Friday 10 May 2013
Trinity Plato Centre Seminar Room 1937 Reading Room Trinity College Dublin
Bert van den Berg, University of Leiden
Phaedo’s tears: Neoplatonists on the paradox of Platonic drama
Event Type Visiting Speaker Colloquium
Friday 5 February 2016
Trinity Plato Centre Seminar Room 1937 Reading Room Trinity College Dublin
John Bremer, Institute of Philosophy
Plato and Homer: Orality and Literacy: Poetry and Ideas
Event Type Visiting Speaker Colloquium
Friday 18 October 2013
Trinity Plato Centre Seminar Room 1937 Reading Room Trinity College Dublin
Dominic Scott, University of Virginia
Plato’s Republic and its Audiences
Event Type Visiting Speaker Colloquium
Wednesday 24 October 2012
Trinity Plato Centre Seminar Room 1937 Reading Room Trinity College Dublin
Apostolos Stavelas, Athens Academy
Platonic philosophy in post–byzantine and early modern Greek thought
Event Type Visiting Speaker Colloquium
Friday 30 January 2015
Trinity Plato Centre Seminar Room 1937 Reading Room Trinity College Dublin
Peter Adamson
Platonism and the Islamic World
Event Type Annual Stephen MacKenna Lecture
Tuesday 7 April 2015
Neill Lecture Theatre, Long Room Hub Building
Damian Caluori, Trinity University, Texas
Plotinus’ account of wholes and parts and its metaphysical application to the study of the soul and intellect
Event Type Visiting Speaker Colloquium
Tuesday 12 June 2012
Trinity Plato Centre Seminar Room 1937 Reading Room Trinity College Dublin
Luciana Soares Santoprete, CNRS
Plotinus’ Debate with the Gnostics in the Tetralogy: Studying the Platonisms of Late Antiquity with digital tools
Event Type Visiting Speaker Colloquium
Tuesday 5 June 2018
Trinity Plato Centre Seminar Room 1937 Reading Room Trinity College Dublin
Christopher Rowe
Reading Socrates in Plato’s Dialogues
Event Type Annual Stephen MacKenna Lecture
Friday 23 January 2009
Robert Emmet Theater, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin
Ugo Zilioli, Trinity Plato Centre
Relativism and the Principle of Non–Contradiction: Some Remarks on Book Gamma of Aristotle’s Metaphysics
Event Type Visiting Speaker Colloquium
Friday 20 February 2009
Trinity Plato Centre Seminar Room 1937 Reading Room Trinity College Dublin
Nie Minli, Renmin University, Beijing
The Arguments of Metaphysics Z 13, 1038b16–34
Event Type Visiting Speaker Colloquium
Monday 15 February 2016
Trinity Plato Centre Seminar Room 1937 Reading Room Trinity College Dublin
Satoshi Ogihara, Tohoku University
The Choice of Life in the Myth of Er in Plato’s Republic
Event Type Visiting Speaker Colloquium
Friday 12 February 2010
Trinity Plato Centre Seminar Room 1937 Reading Room Trinity College Dublin
Michael Erler
The Fox knoweth many things, the Hedgehog one great thing: The relation of philosophical concepts and historical contexts in Plato’s Dialogues
Event Type Annual Stephen MacKenna Lecture
Tuesday 12 April 2011
Neill Lecture Theatre, Long Room Hub Building
Joachim Aufderheide, King’s College London
The Goodness of Pleasure in Plato’s Philebus
Event Type Visiting Speaker Colloquium
Wednesday 6 February 2013
Trinity Plato Centre Seminar Room 1937 Reading Room Trinity College Dublin
Christopher Shields, Oxford University
The Interweaving of Forms: An Existence Argument
Event Type Visiting Speaker Colloquium
Friday 25 October 2013
Trinity Plato Centre Seminar Room 1937 Reading Room Trinity College Dublin
George Karamanolis, University of Crete
The invention of value by the Stoics
Event Type Visiting Speaker Colloquium
Friday 21 February 2014
Trinity Plato Centre Seminar Room 1937 Reading Room Trinity College Dublin
John Bremer, Institute of Philosophy
The Mystery of Meno’s Opening Gambit
Event Type Visiting Speaker Colloquium
Friday 28 October 2011
Trinity Plato Centre Seminar Room 1937 Reading Room Trinity College Dublin
Carlos Steel
The Neoplatonic Socrates
Event Type Annual Stephen MacKenna Lecture
Thursday 7 November 2002
Mháirtin Ui Chadhain Theatre, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin
Werner Beierwaltes
The Neoplatonism of Schelling
Event Type Annual Stephen MacKenna Lecture
Friday 22 October 1999
Royal Irish Academy, Dawson Street, Dublin 2
John Rist
The Platonism of Gregory of Nyssa
Event Type Annual Stephen MacKenna Lecture
Friday 26 January 2001
Room 5052, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin
Blake Hestir, Texas Christian University
The Problem of Predication and Truth in the Sophist
Event Type Visiting Speaker Colloquium
Friday 12 June 2015
Trinity Plato Centre Seminar Room 1937 Reading Room Trinity College Dublin
Nicolò Benzi, Trinity Plato Centre
The Redefinition of Poetic Authority in Early Greek Philosophical Poetry
Event Type Visiting Speaker Colloquium
Monday 16 November 2015
Trinity Plato Centre Seminar Room 1937 Reading Room Trinity College Dublin
Leo Catana, Univrsity of Copenhagen
The Soul’s “Likeness”: The Political Understanding in Plato’s Gorgias
Event Type Visiting Speaker Colloquium
Wednesday 13 May 2015
Trinity Plato Centre Seminar Room 1937 Reading Room Trinity College Dublin
Tim Crowley, University College Dublin
The Things That are Called ‘Elements’: Some Remarks on Aristotle’s Attitude Toward Fire, Air, Water, and Earth
Event Type Visiting Speaker Colloquium
Friday 23 April 2010
Trinity Plato Centre Seminar Room 1937 Reading Room Trinity College Dublin
Robert Zaborowski, University of Warmia and Mazury
Time as a factor differentiating feeling and thinking with references made to Aristotle, Fortenbaugh, Antiphon the Sophist, and Weininger
Event Type Visiting Speaker Colloquium
Monday 4 October 2010
Trinity Plato Centre Seminar Room 1937 Reading Room Trinity College Dublin
Jan Opsomer
Why the Christians are wrong about creation, according to Julian the Apostate
Event Type Annual Stephen MacKenna Lecture
Tuesday 20 March 2012
Neill Lecture Theatre, Long Room Hub Building
Fiona Leigh, University College London
Workshop on Plato’s Sophist
In this workshop the chair, Fiona Leigh, focused on Sophist 256-59: the account of negation and not-being.
Event Type Workshops
Tuesday 15 April 2014
Trinity Plato Centre Seminar Room 1937 Reading Room Trinity College Dublin
Damian Caluori (Trinity University, Texas)
Workshop on Plotinus Ennead VI.1.1-5
A close reading of a new translation and commentary.
Event Type Workshops
7-11 May 2018
Trinity Plato Centre Seminar Room Trinity Plato Centre Trinity College Dublin
George Karamanolis, University of Crete
Workshop on The Philosophy of Early Christianity
George Karamanolis led a close reading of his new manuscript.
Event Type Workshops
Friday 30 November – Saturday 1 December 2013
Trinity Plato Centre Seminar Room 1937 Reading Room Trinity College Dublin
Rodrigo Illarraga, University of Buenos Aires
Xenophon’s Psychology of Philotimia
Event Type Visiting Speaker Colloquium
Thursday 14 March 2019
Trinity Plato Centre Seminar Room 1937 Reading Room Trinity College Dublin
Outreach
One of the main pillars of the Trinity Plato Centre has been its commitment to bringing ancient philosophy, in general, and the philosophy of Plato, in particular to the wider community. This commitment has been carried out through a number of initiatives over the years.
Senators as Philosopher Kings
On 4 November 2014, the Trinity Plato Centre together with Senator Marie-Louise O’Donnell hosted a debate exploring the role of Seanad Éireann.
The unique event employed Plato’s concept of Philosopher Kings to address key issues in the debate on the role of the Seanad.
The lecture, conducted by Emeritus Professor of Greek, John Dillon, and Dr David Horan, of the Trinity Plato Centre presented Plato’s ideas about what constitutes a state as well as his views of public responsibility, which argue that people need to change their way of thinking if they want a different type of Oireachtas.
The aim of the gathering, which was suggested by Professor Marie-Louise O’Donnell, was that the philosophy of Plato should meet the contemporary politics of Ireland. Politics would thus be inspired and invigorated by philosophy while philosophy, for its part, would be made to descend from its ivory tower and engage with the realities of modern Irish life.
Annual Stephen MacKenna Lecutre
Our primary vehicle for engaging with the public is through our Annual Stephen MacKenna Lecture. This event, which is named in commemoration of the great Irish translator of Plotinus and is designed to honor distinguished contemporary scholars working in the field of Plato and the Platonic tradition is aimed at engaging the wider public through lectures that combine rigorous historical scholarship with a sensitivity to contemporary issues.