Digital Dialogue
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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Digital Dialogue
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.
Burt Hopkins, APS member and chair of the Philosophy Department at Seattle University, has asked that we post a link to a conference on Plato’s Unwritten Teachings that will be of interest to many of you.
Please visit the link below to learn more about the conference:
http://www2.seattleu.edu/artsci/philosophy/Default.aspx?id=21904
Mark Anderson and Ginger Osborn of Belmont University have made a pdf file available online entitled: Approaching Plato: A Guide to the Early and Middle Dialogues. This is a collection of outlines and essays covering all of Plato’s early and middle works.
They have asked us to post a link to the text here in the hope that it might be useful to those of us teaching and working on Plato.
Tad Schmalz, editor of the Journal of the History of Philosophy, requested that we post the following letter to encourage scholars in ancient philosophy to submit to the JHP.
Dear colleague:
I write in my role as Editor of the Journal of the History of Philosophy to draw the attention of scholars and students of ancient philosophy (including the philosophy of late antiquity) to JHP. The Journal has an established tradition of publishing excellent peer-reviewed articles, notes, reviews and discussions across the breadth of the Western philosophical tradition. This work has included seminal articles on ancient philosophy. Though there are of course several reputable journals that specialize in ancient philosophy, publication in JHP allows authors to reach not only specialists but also a more general audience that includes those who do not work primarily in this area but who find scholarship on ancient thought to be valuable.
Recent JHP articles on ancient philosophy include:
JHP also has a special Current Scholarship series, which comprises invited critical reviews by senior scholars of the recent literature on various figures or topics in the history of philosophy. Recent and forthcoming contributions to this series that pertain to ancient philosophy include:
The Journal prides itself on a quick turn-around from submission to decision; in 2007–08, the average time between initial submission and final decision for manuscripts reviewed externally was just 68 days. The average time between final acceptance and publication is now approximately one year. For further information about JHP, please visit our online site at http://philosophy.duke.edu/jhp/.
I hope that you and your students will keep JHP in mind when considering an apropriate venue for your articles on ancient philosophy. Please feel free to contact me at jhpeditor@duke.edu if you have any questions concerning the Journal.
Sincerely,
Tad M. Schmaltz
Editor, Journal of the History of Philosophy
One of our members, Debra Nails, who will be co-hosting our annual meeting at Michigan State in the spring of 2010, is also involved with the International Plato Society. Some of our members might be interested in this society whose description is as follows:
Founded in 1989, the International Plato Society promotes Platonic studies throughout the world and communication among scholars of diverse disciplines working on Plato. The society holds symposia every three years and publishes the proceedings of the symposia; it also supports the electronic journal Plato and promotes the publication of books and series on Plato. Members of the society receive the comprehensive Platonic Bibliography annually.