Below is a list of speakers and titles from the meetings of the Work-in-Progress Seminar during the 2019-2020 academic year.
Autumn 2019
Wednesday 9 October
Simone Nota
‘The paradox of falsity and non-being in Parmenides and Plato’
Wednesday 16 October
Keith Begley
‘Jerrold J. Katz’s Democritean Semantic Theory’
Wednesday 30 October
Vasilis Politis
‘Why does thought require essences, or forms? (Plato’s Parmenides)’
Wednesday 6 November
Peter D. Larsen
‘”A notion of the true system of the world”: Berkeley and his use of Plato in Siris‘
Wednesday 13 November
Keith Begley
‘Heraclitus’ Rebuke of Polymathy: A Core Element in the Reflectiveness of His Thought’
Spring 2020
Tuesday 21 January
Margaret Hampson
‘The Learner’s Motivation and the Structure of Habituation in Aristotle’
Tuesday 28 January
Giulio Di Basilio
‘Aristotle on Deliberating Geometrically’
Tuesday 4 February
Vasilis Politis
‘Reason and Love in Plato’
Tuesday 11 February
Jiayu Zhang
‘The Discovery of Corporeal Elements’
Tuesday 18 February
Takaharu Oda
‘The Eucharistic Semiotics: Peirce’s Pragmatist Roots in Berkeley’s Quasi-Reference’
Tuesday 25 February
Robert Toth
‘Whether Plato’s Forms are Interrelated’
Tuesday 10 March
Peter D. Larsen
‘Plato and Aristotle on Sound and Hearing’