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The Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism

Ben Davidson (Academic Secretary for the Centre)

Clelia Attanasio

Dr James Bryson

Dr Dragos Calma (University College Dublin)

Dr Barrie Fleet

Prof. Thomas Hanke (Frankfurt)

Dr Christian Hengstermann (University of Münster) (EU Human Dignity Project)

Dr Evan King (University of King's College, Halifax)

Dr Matthew Leisinger

Dr. Andreea-Maria Lemnaru

Dr Marilyn Lewis (University of Bristol) (EU Human Dignity Project)

Dr Paolo Livieri

Dr Jonathan Lyonhart (University of Jamestown)

Dr Adrian Mihai

Dr Cecilia Muratori (University of Warwick)

Dr Benedetto Neola 

Panagiotis G. Pavlos (University of Oslo)

Gareth Polmeer (Royal College of Art)

Rev'd Dr Thomas Plant (Rikkyo University, Tokyo)

Dr Piotr K. Szałek (Catholic University of Lublin, Poland)

Maria Terss (Stanford University)

Dr Jon W. Thompson (The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, University of Cambridge

Daniel J. Tolan (University of Cambridge)

Dr Maude Vanhaelen (University of Warwick)

Prof. Alexander J.B. Hampton (University of Toronto)

Dr Christopher Wojtulewicz (University of Leuven)

Latest news

Seminar | Neoplatonic Texts: Plotinus' Ennead I.8

7 October 2024

This term, the Centre's Neoplatonism reading seminar will study Ennead I.8, in which Plotinus discusses the nature and origin of evils. This seminar will take place on Thursdays, 9-10:30 (UK time). For more information and how to join, please contact Ben Davidson ( bcd31@cam.ac.uk ).

Seminar | Hadi Fakhoury & Douglas Hedley: Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit

7 October 2024

The Phenomenology of Spirit is perhaps the most decisive text in the history of German idealism. It was in this text that Hegel achieved, albeit in a provisional form, the structure of his mature thought that has come to be known as Absolute Idealism. It was this Absolute Idealism that furnished a point of critique for...

Book Launch | Anthony O'Hear, 'The Prism of Truth | 14th October 2024

4 October 2024

On Monday 14th October, the Centre will host a launch event for Prof. Anthony O'Hear's new volume, The Prism of Truth: Reflections on Myth . Further details of the volume can be found here: https://wipfandstock.com/9781666781014/the-prism-of-truth/#:~:text=After... . This event will take place in the Lightfoot Room of the...

Workshop | Cambridge Cabbalism | 24th October 2024

4 October 2024

On Thursday 24th October 2024, the Centre will host a workshop entitled 'Cambridge Cabbalism', exploring the interactions of the seventeeth-century Cambridge Platonists with the Cabbalistic tradition. This event will take place in the Runcie Room. The programme is here: cc_programme_-2.pdf cc_programme_-2.pdf Participants...

Talk | Curtis White, 'C.S. Lewis’s Via Positiva and T.S. Eliot’s Via Negativa' | 18th November 2024

4 October 2024

On Monday 18th November 2024, the Centre will host Dr Curtis White, who will give a talk, 'C.S. Lewis’s Via Positiva and T.S. Eliot’s Via Negativa: Two Writers Divided by a Common Faith'. This event will take place in the Runcie Room of the Faculty of Divinity, beginning at 5pm (UK time). The talk can be joined remotely...