The Eternity is Eternal: Self-Predication in Plato’s Timaeus.
15 December 2020 - 3pm
Celso Vieira - (RUB)
On line seminar
Abstract In Timaeus 38c we read that the Model of Eternity exists through eternity. The implication is that the Form of Eternity is Eternal. Put in this way, it becomes […]
What Time is Not: εἰκών and ἀριθμός in Plato’s Account of Time in the Timaeus (37d5–7) and the Platonic Tradition
1 December 2020
Thomas Seissl (Vienna)
Online seminar 3pm - to register email silvia.debianchi@uab.cat
Abstract In one of the most famous, but equally obscure passages in the Timaeus, Plato characterises time’s and the heavens’ coming into being as an “everlasting image moving according to […]
Virtue and Psychic Motion in Plato’s Republic
17 November 2020 - 3.00 pm
Eduardo Saldaña (Geneva)
On line seminar
Abstract In Republic Books 2–3, Plato’s Socrates reflects on the nature of an early education in ethics, consisting of both musical and physical training. A proper education both prepares the […]
Plato’s “Reasonable Account” as a Living Being. On the Epistemological Status of Timaeus’ εἰκὼς μῦθος
7 May 2020 3.00pm
Federico M. Petrucci (University of Turin)
Online seminar
Abstract Much has been written on the actual meaning of the phrase “εἰκὼς λόγος/μῦθος” occurring in the poem of Timaeus’ tale. However, especially after Myles Burnyeat’s 2005 seminal paper on […]
Exploring the early Universe through the cosmic microwave background
3 March 2020 3.00pm
Paolo Natoli, Università di Ferrara and INFN
Department of Philosophy, Building B Room B7/1140 Campus UAB
Abstract I will present the tightest observational bounds available on the early Universe, largely based on the legacy of the ESA Planck satellite. The emergent cosmological picture is well consistent […]
Time and Cosmogony in Plato and the Platonic Tradition
22-23 October 2019
Organizers: Silvia De Bianchi and Daniel Vázquez
Sala d'Actes, Department of Philosophy - Campus UAB
Program Tuesday 22nd October Sala d’Actes – Philosophy Dept. UAB 10:30-10:45 Introduction, program information/changes 10:45-11:45 Barbara Sattler “Chronos as all-encompassing – Plato’s Unification of Time” 12:00-13:00 Viktor Ilievski “The Demiurge and […]
The philosophical underpinning of the absorber theory of radiation
30 May 2019 11.30 am
Marco Forgione (University of South Carolina)
Department of Philosophy, Building B Room B7/1140 Campus UAB
Abstract This talk deals with the absorber theory of radiation by (Wheeler and Feynman, 1945) and (Wheeler and Feynman, 1949) and advances the idea that the theory is grounded on […]
Kant on the Foundations of Mathematics and Cosmology. What Legacy for German Idealism and Beyond?
17-18 September 2019
Organizers: Silvia De Bianchi, Federico Viglione
Sala d'Actes (Department of Philosophy, Campus UAB)
Program Tuesday 17th September Sala d’Actes – Philosophy Dept. UAB 10.30 – 10.45 Introduction, program information/changes 10.45 – 11.45 Lisa Shabel: “Kant’s Schematism” 12.00 – 13.00 Federico Viglione: “The mathematical antinomies: […]