Research Seminars, Colloquia and Reading Groups
Thursday, June 25, 2020
-Export as iCalendar |
Knowledge and Understanding SeminarBy ZoomSpeaker: Ellisif Wasmuth (Essex) Title: "What the many know and teach: Plato on the knowledge of language users" Abstract. "Plato is known for his low opinion of the epistemic achievements of the many. He usually grants knowledge (epistēmē or technē) only to the expert or master dialectician, but in the First Alcibiades Socrates seems to agree with Alcibiades that even the many have some knowledge – they know Greek (111c3). In this paper I ask what, if anything, the many actually know in knowing Greek. What kind of grasp of reality must they have, according to Plato, in order to be competent users of language, and can knowledge of language be had independently of knowledge of the world? |