Online conference on Platonic Categories (KU Leuven, June 17-18)

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From: Pieter D'hoine <pieter...@KULEUVEN.BE>

Dear colleagues,

we are happy to announce our international conference on 'Platonic Categories’, which will take place on June 17 and 18, 2021. The conference is hosted by the De Wulf-Mansion Centre at KU Leuven, but will take place online. 

Please find the conference programme below. For more information (also about registration), please visit our conference webpage: https://hiw.kuleuven.be/dwmc/conferences-lectures/platonic-categories/. Participation is free, but registration through our webpage is required to get the Zoom-links and conference updates. 

Best wishes,

Nicolas Zaks (FWO post-doctoral fellow/KU Leuven) - Pieter d’Hoine (KU Leuven)

17 JUNE

Chair    Nicolas Zaks (KU Leuven/FWO)

11h-11h15      Introduction

11h15-12h00  Pauline Sabrier (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg): Are the Five megista gene of the Sophist Plato’s Categories?

12h-12h45      Paolo Fait (University of Oxford): Relatives in the Sophist

 

12h45-14h      Break

 

Chair               Jan Opsomer (KU Leuven)

14h-14h45      Matthew Duncombe (University of Nottingham): Incompleteness and the Category of Relativity

14h45-15h30  Nicolas Zaks (KU Leuven/FWO): Categories of Change in Plato

 

15h30-16h      Break

 

Chair               Giulia de Cesaris (KU Leuven)

16h-16h45      Roberto Granieri (KU Leuven): Hermodorus of Syracuse and Sextus Empiricus’ ‘Pythagoreans’ on Categories and Principles

16h45-17h30  Laurent Lavaud (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon): How to Interpret the Category of Movement? A Neoplatonic Controversy

17h30-18h      General discussion

 

18 JUNE

Chair               Pieter d’Hoine (KU Leuven)

14h-14h45      Alberto Kobec (KU Leuven): Platonic Genera as Causes of the Categorial Structure of Sensible Being in Proclus

14h45-15h30  Myrto Hatzimichali (University of Cambridge): Platonic Categories in Simplicius

 

15h30-16h      Break

 

Chair    Franziska van Buren (KU Leuven)

16h-16h45      Mareike Hauer (KU Leuven): Simplicius on the Relation Between a Platonic Twofold and Aristotle's Tenfold Categorial Scheme

16h45-17h30  Sylvain Delcomminette (Université Libre de Bruxelles): The megista gene as Grundarten der Verknüpfung: Paul Natorp and the Sophist

17h30-18h      General discussion/wrap-up (chair: Nicolas Zaks)