Perspectives on Character and Truth
King’s College London
7-8 May 2026
The Department of Philosophy, King’s College London is pleased to announce a conference organised in honour of Raphael Woolf titled: Perspectives on Character and Truth.
Programme:
Thursday, 7 May 2026
10:00-11:30 Fiona Leigh (UCL) – Soul turning: Desiderative Self-knowledge and Courage in Alcibiades I & Republic
11:45-13:15 Branislav Kotoc (KCL) – Say What You Believe: Sincerity Condition in Plato
14:30-16:00 Verity Harte (Yale) – Purity and Truth in Plato’s Philebus
16:30-18:00 Joachim Aufderheide (KCL) – Meditations on Dreaming in Plato’s Republic
Friday, 8 May 2026
10:00-11:30 Jorge Torres (UC Chile) – Plato’s Typology of Characters
11:45-13:15 Taichi Miura (Chubu) – Socrates’ Treatment of Charmides and Critias: Character, Philosophical Therapy, and Its Failure in Plato’s Charmides
14:30-16:00 Peter Adamson (LMU) – Going Through the Motions: Religious Belief, Practice, and Custom from Cicero to Pascal
16:30-18:00 M.M. McCabe (KCL) – How to Do Things with Birds
18:00 Raphael Woolf – In Praise of Quiet Corners (Closing remarks)
Location: Nash Lecture Theatre (KIN 205), Strand Campus, King’s College London
The workshop is free and open to all, however, registration is needed. To register, please see here.
The conference is organised with the generous support of the Foundation for Platonic Studies.
For enquiries, please contact Branislav Kotoc (branislav.kotoc@kcl.ac.uk).
Note: this is not a Classical Association event – please contact the organisers directly with any enquiries.