CONTENT OF THE 1983-1984 ACADEMIC YEAR

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SAGP/SSIPS October 1983: “Plato and Islamic Philosophy’ (SAGP/SSIPS)

Program

• Harold Zyskind & Robert Sternfeld, Stony Brook, “Plato’s Parmenides: the theory of ideas as a basis for literal discourse.” Robert Sternfeld is emeritus at Stony Brook.
• Kenneth Dorter, University of Guelph. “The Theory of Forms and Parmenides I.” Published in John P. Anton & Anthony Preus, eds. 1989. Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy, Vol. III: Plato, State University of New York Press, 183-202. https://www.uoguelph.ca/arts/philosophy/people/kenneth-dorter
• Richard Mohr, University of Illinois. “Plato’s Theology Reconsidered: What the Demiurge Does.” SSIPS 1983. Published in History of Philosophy Quarterly 2.2 (1985) 131-144, reprinted in John P. Anton & Anthony Preus, eds. 1989. Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy, Vol. III: Plato, State University of New York Press, 293-308. Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, University of Illinois.
• Veda Cobb-Stevens, University of Lowell. “Perception, Appearance, and Kinesis: The Secret Doctrine of Plato’s Theaetetus.” SSIPS 1983. Published in John P. Anton & Anthony Preus, eds. 1989. Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy, Vol. III: Plato, State University of New York Press, 247-266.
• Leo Sweeney, S. J. Loyola University. “Participation in Plato’s Dialogues: Phaedo, Parmenides, Sophist, and Timaeus.” Published in The New Scholasticism 62.2 (1988).
• Robert G. Turnbull, The Ohio State University. “The Third Man Argument and the Text of the Parmenides.” Published in John P. Anton & Anthony Preus, eds. 1989. Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy, Vol. III: Plato, State University of New York Press, 203-226. Incorporated into The Parmenides and Plato’s Late Philosophy, University of Toronto Press, 1998.
• N. Findlay, “Plato’s Unwritten Dialectic of the One and the Great and Small.” Findlay published Plato: the Written and Unwritten Doctrines in 1974; it was reprinted in 2013. In this paper he restates what he had published 10 years earlier.

Newsletter Fall 1983.

Margaret Reesor President.

Meeting with the American Philological Association in Cincinnati

• A.A. Long, University of California at Berkeley. “Greek Ethics after MacIntyre and the Stoic Community of Reason.” Published in Ancient Philosophy 3.2 (1983) 184-199.
• Brad Inwood, University of Toronto. “Hierocles: Theory and Argument in the Second Century A.D.” Published in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 2 (1984) 151-183.

Meeting with the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association December 29, 1983, in Boston

Anthony Preus, Chair

• John Anton, University of South Florida, “Aristotle’s Categories Revisited.” Published in John P. Anton & Anthony Preus, eds. 1992. Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy, Volume V: Aristotle’s Ontology. SUNY Press, 111-118.
• Ian Mueller, University of Chicago. “Neoplatonic Discussions of Mathematical Concepts.” See also his “Syrianus and the Concept of Mathematical Number,” in Gerard Bechtle & Dominic O’Meara, eds. La Philosophie des Mathematiques de l’Antiquite Tardive, Fribourg 2000. See Stephen Menn’s detailed analysis of Mueller’s contributions to the history of philosophy and mathematics “In Memoriam Ian Mueller (1938-2010)” in Axiomata 7 (2010) 193-228.

1984

Newsletter 1984, 1 (Spring): Pacific and Western Division

Meeting with the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association, 1984

• Julius Moravscik, “Platonic Ethics: A Radical Alternative to Modern Ethical Theories.” Cf. “Ideals and Obligations in Plato’s Ethics.” Philosophical Inquiry 7.3-4 (1985) 129-145.
• N. Findlay, Boston University. “Plato’s Unwritten Dialectic of the One and the Great and Small.” Findlay published Plato: the Written and Unwritten Doctrines in 1974; it was reprinted in 2013.
• W. Fortenbaugh, “Theophrastus: Theory of Emotions.” Included in “Aristotle and Theophrastus on the Emotions,” in J. T. Fitzgerald, ed. 2008. Passions and Moral Progress in Greco-Roman Thought. Routledge.

Meeting with the Western (Central) Division of the American Philosophical Association in Cincinnati, April 1984

• Jane Zembaty, University of Dayton. “Socrates’ Perplexity in the Hippias Minor.” Published in John P. Anton & Anthony Preus, eds. 1989. Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy, Vol. III: Plato, State University of New York Press, 51-70. https://udayton.edu/directory/artssciences/philosophy/zembaty_jane.php
• Lloyd Gerson, University of Toronto. “Plato on Knowledge, Virtue, and the Unity of Goodness.” Published in John P. Anton & Anthony Preus, eds. 1989. Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy, Vol. III: Plato, State University of New York Press, 85-100.