Category Archives: Of Interest

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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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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McCoy and Long in Digital Dialogue

August 4, 2009

Digital Dialogue

Marina McCoy joined Christopher Long on the Digital Dialogue podcast to discuss the Protagoras and the transformative political possibilities endemic to the idea of sympathetic listening Marina outlines in her book, Plato on the Rhetoric of Philosophers and Sophists.

The Digital Dialogue podcast is part of a larger project Professor Long has undertaken to explore the possibilities social media offers philosophical scholarship. His project, Socratic Politics in Digital Dialogue, has been awarded a summer faculty fellowship by the Pennsylvania State University’s Teaching and Learning with Technology.

The Digital Dialogue, which is available through iTunesU where you are encouraged to subscribe to receive future episodes, is produced in an attempt to thematize and cultivate the excellences associated with dialogue. It is available through iTunesU where you are encouraged to subscribe to receive future episodes.

Digital Dialogue 6 with Marina McCoy: Attentive Listening

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The Digital Dialogue podcast is produced in the spirit of the Socratic practice of politics which was committed to turning individuals in dialogue toward the question of the good, the just and the beautiful.