Participants presented papers inspired by Benardete’s work, on Plato, Aristotle, the Bible, Virgil, Herodotus, Parmenides and classical scholarship.
Program
Friday, April 15, 2005
Patrick Goodin – “Physis and Philosophy: on Physics I.1”
Drew Keller – “The Quarrel Between Benardete and Classics: What Seth Might Have Taught a Field”
Saturday, April 16, 2005
Marc Witkin – “Nomos Basileus: Benardete’s ‘Second Thoughts’ on Herodotus”
Holly Haynes – “The Truth is Out There in the Aeneid”
John Blanchard – “Parmenides’ Truth”
Olivia Delgado de Torres – “Parmenides: The Envelope of Socrates’ Second Sailing”
Michael Davis – “Making Something from Nothing: on Plato’s Hipparchus”
Robert Berman – “The Socratic Principle and the Problem of Punishment”
Ronna Burger – “Definitional Law in the Bible”