UPCOMING PRESENTATIONS International Society for Neoplatonic Studies June 19-23, 2024, Dublin "Unity as a Kind in the Sophist" In panel "Plotinus' Interpretation of Plato's Sophist" RECENT PRESENTATIONS Ancient Philosophy Society April 4-8, 2024, Toronto Metropolitan University Commentary on Stephen Artner, "Heraclitean Perception: A Reading of Theaetetus 151d-187a" American Philosophical Association Central Division February 20-24, 2024, New Orleans Commentary on Graham Renz, "Hylomorphism and the Extra Ingredient Problem" Fonte Aretusa: Empedocles in Sicily November 20-23, 2023, Siracusa, Italy "Empedocles on the Metaphysics of Phusis" International Society for Neoplatonic Studies June 13-18, 2023, Catania, Italy "The Philosopher as Mediator in Proclus' Commentary on the Cratylus" Ancient Philosophy Society April 19-23, 2023, Gonzaga University Commentary on Elizabeth Hill, "Poetic Language in the Cratylus: A Moving Image of Being" American Philosophical Association Pacific Division April 5-8, 2023, San Francisco "A Contribution to the Intensive Reading of 'To Pantelos On' at Sophist 248e" American Philosophical Association Central Division February 22-25, 2023, Denver Commentary on Blaze Marpet, "Luck in Plato's Euthydemus" Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy November 19, 2022, remote "Knowledge and Stoicheia in Plato's Cratylus" In panel "Inquiry and Knowledge in Plato's Cratylus," also with Sean Driscoll (University of Richmond) and Christopher Healow (Southern New Hampshire University) Fonte Aretusa: Paideia and Performance May 30 - June 2, 2022, Siracusa, Italy "Pedagogical Method and Active Performativity in Plato's Phaedrus" In panel "The Pedagogical Role of Performance in Plato's Dialogues," also with Peter Moore (Xavier University) and Kristian Sheeley (University of Kentucky) Symposium on Plato's Timaeus May 20, 2022, University of Kentucky (remote), invited presentation "Nous, Aitia, and the Senses of Causation in Timaeus 46c7-48b3" Ancient Philosophy Society April 7-10, 2022, Penn State University Commentary on John Proios, "The Knowledge that Free People Have: Dialectic as Cognitive Liberation in Plato's Sophist" American Philosophical Association Central Division February 23-26, 2022, Chicago Commentary on David Murphy, "A Defense of 'Mouthpiece' Interpretations of Plato's Dialogues" Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy November 6, 2021 (remote) "Two Platonic Senses of the Unlimited Continuum in Philebus 16b-27c" In panel "Plato's Later Dialogues and Contemporary Philosophy," also with Richard Neels (St. Francis Xavier University), "Fundamentality and Forms in Plato's Parmenides," and Christopher Buckels (Junipero Serra High School), "The Particulars of Philebus 15b." Eleatica XII September 26-29, 2021, Fondazione Alario per Elea-Velia, Ascea, Italy (remote) "'Being-as-Such' and Competing Interpretations of Parmenides' Fragment 2" West Coast Plato Workshop May 2021, Northern Arizona University (remote) "Being as Communion: Sophist 248b2-8" Commentator: Timothy Clarke, University of California--Berkeley Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (Classics track) April 2021, remote "Parmenides' Fragment 2 and the Meaning of Einai" Panel: "Parmenides," including material from forthcoming book Inquiring into Being: Essays on Parmenides Also with Michael Wiitala (Cleveland State University), Mary Cunningham (University of Kentucky), and Joseph Zehner (University of Virginia) American Philosophical Association Central Division February 2021, remote "On Causal Priority and the Dramatic Date of Plato's Cratylus" Commentator: John V. Garner, University of West Georgia American Philosophical Association Eastern Division January 2021, remote Commentary on Joseph Kassman-Tod's "Heraclitus' Polemos as the Formal Structure of Art Critical Appreciation" Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy May 19, 2020, remote "Einai without Existence in Euthydemus 283a-284c" American Philosophical Association Eastern Division January 8-11, 2020, Philadelphia, PA "Communion, Division, and Dialectic in the Sophist" Commentary: Jessica Deal (Catholic University of America) Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy November 16-17, 2019, Christopher Newport University, Newport News, VA "The Case for the 399 BCE Dramatic Date for Plato's Cratylus" Ancient Philosophy Society April 25-28, 2019, Trinity College, Hartford, CT "Toward a Two-Route Interpretation of Parmenidean Inquiry" Commentary: Christopher Paone (Western Connecticut State University / Sacred Heart University) Kentucky Philosophical Association March 22-23, 2019, Transylvania University, Lexington, KY Commentary on Peter Moore's "Just Like Learning to Read: Grammata in the City Soul Analogy in Plato's Republic" American Philosophical Association Central Division February 20-23, 2019, Denver, CO "Reconsidering the Routes of Inquiry and Errors of Mortals in Parmenides' Poem" Commentary: Thomas Tuozzo (University of Kansas) Central States Philosophical Association October 26-27, 2018, University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY Commentary on Michael Wiitala's "Intelligence as a Cause: Phaedo 96a-99c" Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy October 20-21, 2018, Christopher Newport University, Newport News, VA "Diairesis and Koinonia in Sophist 253d1-e2" North American Workshop in Platonic Philosophy August 8-10, 2017, Hamline University, St. Paul, MN "The Groundwork for Dialectic in Statesman 277a-287b" Kentucky Foreign Language Conference April 20-23, 2017, Lexington, KY "Eidos and Energeia: Active Stability in Plato and Aristotle" University of Chicago Graduate Conference in Ancient Philosophy: Argument in Ancient Thought April 7-8, 2017, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL "Turning Toward Forms: Method in the Theaetetus, Sophist, and Statesman Trilogy" Commentary: Amber Ace (University of Chicago) UPCOMING EVENTS None to note at the moment RECENT EVENTS Kentucky Foreign Language Conference April 2022, Lexington, KY (and remote) Ancient Philosophy Society April 7-10, 2022, annual meeting at Penn State University Kentucky Foreign Language Conference April 22-24, 2021, remote History of Philosophy Works-in-Progress group, CU--Boulder March 11, 2021, remote "Being as Communion: Sophist 248b2-8" History of Philosophy Works-in-Progress group, CU--Boulder April 24, 2020 @ 3:15pm MT, remote via Zoom "Einai without Existence in the Euthydemus" University of Kentucky Philosophy Graduate Student Association Summer Camp Day camp for high-school students July 2019, Lexington, KY Kentucky Foreign Language Conference April 11-13, 2019, Lexington, KY University of Kentucky Graduate Student Association Conference: Socio-Political Philosophy Host and organizer: D Cole March 2, 2019, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY UKY Prolegomena (papers-in-progress) Club Meeting "Reconsidering the Routes of Inquiry and the Errors of Mortals in Parmenides' Poem" February 13, 2019, POT 1445, UKY University of Kentucky Philosophy Graduate Student Association Summer Camp Day camp for high-school students July 9-13, 2018, Lexington, KY University of Kentucky Philosophy Graduate Student Association Conference: Environmental Philosophy Host and organizer: Clay Graham March 24, 2018, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY University of Kentucky Philosophy Graduate Student Association Conference: Virtue, Ancient and Modern Host and organizer: Colin Smith March 4, 2017, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY UKY Prolegomena (papers-in-progress) Club Meeting "Turning Toward Forms" February 10, 2017, Room 1445 Patterson Office Tower, UKY |