APS @ SPEP on the Digital Dialogue

November 21, 2009

Digital Dialogue

Rose Cherubin of George Mason University joined APS members Jill Gordon, Sara Brill and Christopher Long for a special APS at SPEP edition of the Digital Dialogue to discuss the paper she gave entitled Parmenides, Another Way.

On the podcast, we take up once again the poem of Parmenides, but now from a perspective, as Rose suggests, that takes the dramatic and dialogical dimensions of the poem seriously. Rose’s paper challenges traditional approaches to Parmenides that seek to identify the doctrine of Parmenides with the words spoken by the Goddess in the poem itself. Rather, whatever teaching can be discerned in the poem must take the dramatic elements of the poem seriously.

Listen to Digital Dialogue episode 17 with Rose Cherubin, Sara Brill and Jill Gordon: Parmenides

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APS, Conferences

MSU Conference Submissions Update

November 18, 2009

Thank you to everyone who submitted papers for the tenth annual independent meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society. We were very happy to receive 79 submissions this year. We hope to be able to accept about 20 of them for the final program.

The program committee is now hard at work reading the submissions and the Society would like to thank them for their hard work. We take the blind review process seriously, so the members of the program committee will remain unnamed for now, but we will thank them publicly at the end of the process.

We hope to have the program set by the end of December so people have the chance make travel arrangements.

The Society would also like to thank Debra Nails and Corinne Painter in particular for the work they have done thus far to make our gathering at MSU a success.

Of Interest

Holly Moore on the Digital Dialogue

November 5, 2009

Digital Dialogue

Long time APS member, Holly Moore, defended her dissertation on Plato’s Analogical Thought at DePaul University in October.

Dr. Moore joined Christopher Long for episode 15 of the Digital Dialogue in which she discussed her dissertation. Holly traces the manner in which Plato uses the structure of analogies to reflect on the nature of philosophical images.

As Holly puts it in one of her comments:

So, analogy, then, is the most philosophical of images, insofar as it acts like a reflection upon the very structure of imaging and as a reflection upon philosophical reflection.

To read more about Holly’s work, visit the blog post for Digital Dialogue episode 15, where she responds to comments and questions from students in Marina McCoy course on rhetoric at Boston College.

Listen to Digital Dialogue episode 15 with Holly Moore: Plato’s Analogical Thinking

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