Went today to a really interesting talk by Hugh Benson, who is visiting King's for a few months as a Leverhulme visiting research professor. He was arguing that Socrates (as presented in Plato's elenctic dialogues) encourages us to seek wisdom by learning from those who already know -- this is more controversial than it might sound! Anyway it was great. If you're in the London area, he will also be giving two further talks, next Monday and the Monday after, feel free to get in touch to find out more details.

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The 3rd John Ackrill Memorial Lecture in Ancient Philosophy

10th Mar 2011 5:00pm

RICHARD SORABJI

Ideas of moral conscience in antiquity and their later effects

Brasenose, Oxford, Lecture Room XI

This year it is on April 7-8, at York University. Looks like a great line-up, including a paper by my colleague from King's and podcast favorite MM McCabe:

http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/phil/chiphi/news/naap.htm

Here's an announcement of an interesting conference on philosophy in the Abrahamic traditions.

Just to note that today I appeared on "In Our Time", the BBC Radio 4 program hosted by Melvyn Bragg, to talk about the great medieval Jewish philosopher and jurist Maimonides:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00yjqz3

It's a good opportunity to hear what I sound like without the benefit of a script or an editor taking out the mistakes. The two other guests are John Haldane and Sarah Stroumsa.

March 8, at the Institute of Philosophy here in London, talks on Leibniz and Hobbes. Featuring my colleague from King's, Maria Rosa Antognazza. For the program go to:

http://www.philosophy.sas.ac.uk/?q=events-workshops

I thought I would use this blog to announce and discuss history of philosophy events in London (or if anyone else wants to use this website to make similar announcements, go for it). Today my friend and colleague Frisbee gave a talk at the Aristotelian Society on the Phaedrus, arguing that this dialogue by Plato provides what some people find missing in Plato: an account of interpersonal friendship (philia). I'll actually be interviewing her about Plato's erotic dialogues later in the series, probably episode 32 (I plan to do 16 episodes on Plato total, believe it or not).

Before I get going with proper blog posts, I'd like to thank numerous people for their help with this project. Firstly Julian Rimmer, for offering to design this website, for doing such a good job with it, and for helping me come to grips with it!

Secondly, my production assistant Rory O'Connell -- it's thanks to him that the podcast sounds as good as it does and that you don't hear me frequently stumbling over my words (he edits the stumbles out).

Hello and thank you for visiting the website and, indeed, blog of the History of Philosophy podcast! Along with our Facebook page this website will provide you with a chance to have your say about the History of Philosophy. As I mention in the episodes on Plato, there is good reason for thinking that philosophy is done in dialogue and not in monologue.