Sophisticated Platonism

Discussion of Republic Book One (with Cormac Deane, rashné limki and Kenneth Weir)

The Preamble, Justice and Hostility (2ish Minutes)

Cephalus: The Preamble to Justice (2ish Minutes)

Polemarchus: Justice, Friends and Enemies (2ish Minutes)

Thrasymachus: Hostility Personified (3ish Minutes)

Craft and Self-Interest (3ish Minutes)

Gluttony, Ignorance and Ethics (5ish Minutes)   

Discussion of Meno (with Konstantin Stoborod)

Pedagogy and Learning (2ish Minutes)

Theories of Memory (3ish Minutes)

The (Meta-) Physics of Recollection (4ish Minutes)

Knowledge, Opinion and Practical Wisdom (6ish Minutes)

True Opinions, Errant Accounts and Mimesis (3ish Minutes)  

Final Discussion of Gorgias (with Michael Lewis)

Philosophical Life or Rhetorical Life? (2ish Minutes)

Shameful Speech or Fearless Speech? (5ish Minutes)

Self-Restraint or Self-Expression? (5ish Minutes)

Divine Justice or Conventional Justice? (4ish Minutes)

Rational Justice or Natural Justice? (6ish Minutes)

The Good or the Desirable? (6ish Minutes)

Medicine or Cookery? (2ish Minutes)

Third Discussion of Gorgias (with Mike Lewis)

Originals and Copies (2ish Minutes)

Means and Ends (6ish Minutes)

The Medical Analogy (3ish Minutes)

Disagreeing to Agree (6ish Minutes)

Medicine for the Soul (5ish Minutes)

Second Discussion of Gorgias (with Mike Lewis)

Discussions and Interruptions (7ish Minutes)

Rhetoric as Flattery and Pretence (5ish Minutes)

The Metaphysics of Flattery and Pretence (4ish Minutes)

Empiricism for the Body, Rationalism for the Soul (5ish Minutes)

Discussion of Menexenus (with Konstantin Stoborod)

The Speech and its Frame (c. 1ish Minute)

Patriotic Content and Nationalistic Conventions (c. 8ish Minutes)

Memory’s Virtues and Vices (c. 8ish Minutes)

Framing Philosophy’s Anti-Conventionalism (c. 3 Minutes)

Discussion of Ion (with Konstantin Stoborod)

Rhapsodism as Enthusiasm (4ish Minutes)

Rhapsodism as Performance (4ish Minutes)

Rhapsodism as Inspiration (6ish Minutes)

Rhapsodism, Memory and Authenticity (3ish Minutes)

Discussion of Lesser Hippias (with Konstantin Stoborod)

Dialogue as Pedagogy (6ish Minutes)

Misused Potential (4ish Minutes)

Deceit, Irony and Ethics (7ish Minutes)

Discussion of Gorgias to 461b (with Mike Lewis)

Approaching Gorgias after Protagoras (3ish Minutes)

Display or Discussion?  (4ish Minutes)

Display and Discussion! (8ish Minutes)

Is Believing to Persuasion as Learning is to Instruction? (4ish Minutes)

Rhetoric’s Powers are Philosophy’s Weaknesses (4ish Minutes)

The Roles of the Audience (7ish Minutes)

Third Discussion of Protagoras (with Mike Lewis)

Protagoras Changes His Mind (2ish Minutes)

The Dialectical Reversal (4ish Minutes)

The Uncertain Conclusion (4ish Minutes)

Contemporary Resonances (3ish Minutes)

Audience Questions (4ish Minutes)

Second Discussion of Protagoras (with Mike Lewis)

Where Does Politics Come From? (7ish Minutes)

What Is Wrong With Stories? (3ish Minutes)

What Is Wrong With Books? (7ish Minutes)

Does Sophistry Assist People To Become Good And True? (5ish Minutes)

Is Teaching Different From Persuading? (5ish Minutes)

First Discussion of Protagoras (with Mike Lewis)

Approaching Protagoras (5ish Minutes)

What Do Sophists Teach? (5ish Minutes)

Imagining the Sophist as a Psychiatrist and a Merchant (4ish Minutes)

Encountering the Beautiful Protagoras (6ish Minutes)

Are Stories More Persuasive than Arguments? (8ish Minutes)

Second Discussion of Cratylus (with Mike Lewis)

The Corruption of Noble Words (5ish Minutes)

From Noises to Names? (6ish Minutes)

From Etymology to Epistemology? (5ish Minutes)

First Discussion of Cratylus (with Mike Lewis)

Lost in Translation? (6ish Minutes)

Where to Start and How to Proceed (10ish Minutes)

Divination, Poetry, Etymology and Frivolity (15ish Minutes).  

Discussion of Sophist (with Various International Colleagues)

Is the Investigation Socratic, Eleatic or Platonic? (2ish Minutes), How should we hunt things down? (2ish Minutes), How many Sophists have we Captured? (4ish Minutes), How might we speak about Nothing? (4ish Minutes); Can we think Beyond Language? (2ish Minutes)

Summary of Timaeus Discussions (with Michael Lewis)

Structures (4ish Minutes); Beginnings (8ish Minutes); Creations (3ish Minutes); Jokes (4ish Minutes)  

Discussion of Timaeus 69-End (with Michael Lewis)

God, Man, Beast and Machine (5ish Minutes)

Discussion of Timaeus 48-69 (with Michael Lewis)

Beyond Mimesis (3ish Mins); Philosophy of Nature (5ish Mins); Creationism & Contingency (5ish Mins); Chora and Errancy (6ish Mins)

Discussion of Timaeus, 27c-48e (with Michael Lewis)

Why Invoke a God? (4ish Minutes); What is a Likely Account? (8ish Minutes); What is the World Modelled On? (3ish Minutes) What is the World Made Of? (5ish Minutes)

Discussion of Timaeus 17-29d (with Michael Lewis)

Atlantis and the Republic (3ish Minutes); Oral and Written Records (4ish Minutes); Memory and Forgetting (5ish Minutes); Egypt and Athens (3ish Minutes); Athens and Atlantis (3ish Minutes) Recollection (3ish Minutes)