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 His Place in Plato’s Metaphysical Scheme”
Lunch
14:30-15:30 Luca Pitteloud “Motion before Motion: Timaeus’ Description of chaos in the Universe (52d4-53b5)”
15:45-16:45 Jenny Bryan “The Ethics of Time in the Myth of Plato’s Statesman”
Conference Dinner
Wednesday 23rd October
Sala d’Actes – Philosophy Dept. UAB
10:45-11:45 Daniel Vázquez “Before the Creation of Time in Plato’s Timaeus”
12:00-13:00 Alberto Ross “God and Causality in Simplicius”
Lunch
14:30-15:30 José M. Zamora “The Paradigm for the Cosmos. Syrianus’ Reading of Tim. 28c5–29a2”
15:45-16:45 Ricardo Salles “One classic problem in the Stoic theory of time and its Platonic background”