[MGSA-L] Summer school on Platonic Philosophy

anastasios grigorakis grigorakis_a at yahoo.gr
Sat May 24 02:39:44 PDT 2014


Dear members of the list, I forward the announcement of the summer school in Platonic philosophy in Athens. I apologize if it's been already posted.



The Foundation for Hellenic World (FHW) in collaboration with the University of Athens
and the Onassis Cultural Center is launching a project entitled «Plato's Academy: the
development of Knowledge and innovative ideas».

Within the framework of this project, FHW organizes and runs a multidisciplinary summer
school the overall theme of which will be to consider the impact of Platonic (mainly)
philosophy on contemporary issues relevant to science and technology..
This year’s summer school hosts some of the leading philosophers and thinkers from USA
and EU Universities with special emphasis on ancient Greek and modern philosophy.
Academics such as John Cooper from Princeton University/USA, Hans-Johann Glock from
Zurich University/Switzerland, Alexander Mourelatos from Texas University/USA, Eric
Schliesser from Ghent University/ Belgium and Genia Schönbaumsfeld, Southampton University /United Kingdom 

as well as Vaso Kindi, Theodoros Arabatzis and Stelios Virvidakis from the University of Athens.


The Summer School of Philosophy and Applied Research is addressed to postgraduate
students and researchers from all over the world, from mainly scientific and technological
backgrounds who are interested in investigating the relationship between applied research
and its underlying principles, and the ways in which applied research supplies feedback for,
and occasionally overturns, these same principles. The number of students who will
participate will be twenty. They will be selected by a special committee following the
thorough assessment of the submitted applications
The Project covers the teaching expenses and the educational materials provided.
Additionally, it fully covers the students' meals and accommodation in twin bedrooms, as
well as their daily transportation to and from the teaching venues. Lastly, the Project will
cover 3 educational outings in and around Athens which are part of the summer school
program. The students will have to cover the transportation cost from their place of residence
to Athens and back.
The Summer School will last 15 days and will run for three consecutive years, starting 2012.
The venue will be the facilities of FHW in Athens, specifically the Hellenic Cosmos
(www.hellenic-cosmos.gr/). The opening date for the current year (2014) is Sunday, July
13th and the closing date is Sunday, July 27th.
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