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Digital Dialogue 34: Heidegger on Aristotle

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Digital Dialogue 34
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Rob Metcalf, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado at Denver and graduate of the Pennsylvania State University’s Department of Philosophy, joins Christopher Long for episode 34 of the Digital Dialogue.

Rob’s work focuses on ancient philosophy, phenomenology, ethics, philosophy of religion and the history of philosophy.

We recorded this episode at Michigan State where we were attending the annual meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society. Our discussion focused on his and Mark Tanzer’s recent translation of Heidegger’s 1924 lecture course entitled Basic Concepts of Aristotelian Philosophy.

Digital Dialogue 34: Metcalf on Heidegger’s reading of Aristotle

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Gordon, Brill and Long Discuss Zuckert’s Keynote

Jill Gordon, Sara Brill and I gathered after the keynote address given by Catherine Zuckert at this year’s Ancient Philosophy Society meeting at Michigan State to discuss the lecture entitled, “Two Paradigms of Philosophy: Socrates and Timeaus.”

Catherine Zuckert has recently published an extensive study of the dialogues entitled Plato’s Philosophers: The Coherence of the Dialogues with the University of Chicago Press.  In that text, she offers a reading of the dialogues in accordance with the chronological order of the drama they articulate.

We also talked about the Ancient Philosophy Society in general and continued our ongoing discussion of the meaning and nature of Plato’s writing.

Digital Dialogue 33: Brill, Gordon and Long on Zuckert’s Keynote at APS 2010

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Digital Dialogue 32 Recorded at MSU

Episode 32 of the Digital Dialogue is a recording of the paper entitled “The Crisis of Community: The Topology of Socratic Politics” I delivered at the 10th annual APS meeting at MSU in April.

The recording includes my reading of the paper, Anne-Marie Bowery’s commentary and the questions and discussion from those gathered at the APS meeting at MSU.  This is the first of a series of Digital Dialogues recorded at the MSU meeting of the APS.  I will post others here too as they are released.

Digital Dialogue 32: Christopher Long at APS 2010: The Topology of Socratic Politics

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APS, Conferences, General Info

Facebook and Digital Dialogue

As we prepare to meet again in Michigan for the 10th year, I want to celebrate a milestone for the APS Facebook page: we have reached and surpassed the 300 fans mark.  If you have not already, I invite members to join our facebook page at:

http://www.facebook.com/AncientPhilosophySociety

Encourage your friends on Facebook to become fans, or to “like” our page.

I would also like to invite you to listen to Ryan Drake and I talk about the paper I will give on Saturday at the conference.  The paper is on the Protagoras and Ryan joined me on episode 31 of the Digital Dialogue to discuss some of the issues I will raise in that paper.  Thanks, Ryan, for a great conversation.

Listen to episode 31 entitled Shame and Justice here.

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For more information, visit my Digital Dialogue blog and the page related to my project on Socratic Politics.

I hope everyone has a safe trip to East Lansing, and don’t forget, if you tweet, use the #APS10 hash tag!

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APS @ SPEP on the Digital Dialogue

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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

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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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Sara Brill on the Digital Dialogue

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Sara Brill joined Christopher Long for episode 13 of the Digital Dialogue podcast in which they discuss the relationship between the Platonic conception of the soul and the political dimensions of the Phaedo, in particular.

Digital Dialogue 13 with Sara Brill: Psychology and Politics

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For more information on the Digital Dialogue, see Christopher Long’s website, the long road.

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Jill Gordon in Digital Dialogue

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Jill Gordon joined Christopher Long on episode 9 of the Digital Dialogue to discuss the erotic dimension of Socratic politics. Jill’s recent work, as many members of the Society know, focuses on the erotic dimensions of Plato’s world. Chris and Jill also focused on passages from Plato’s Phaedo to highlight courage and openness as excellences of dialogue.

Digital Dialogue 9 with Jill Gordon: Erotic Politics

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McCoy and Long in Digital Dialogue

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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.