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The Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism

Dr. Stephen Blackwood (Ralston College)

Prof. Olivier Boulnois (Ecole pratique des hautes études, Paris)

Dr. Alan Cardew (University of Essex)

Dr. Peter Cheyne (Shimane University)

Prof. Kevin Corrigan (Emory University)

Prof. John Dillon (Trinity College, Dublin)

Prof. Stephen Gersh (University of Notre Dame)

Prof. Garth Green (McGill University)

Prof. Philippe Hoffmann (Ecole pratique des hautes études, Paris)

Prof. Paul Kalligas (University of Athens)

Prof. Anders-Christian Jacobsen (Aarhus University)

Prof. John Kenney (Saint Michael's College, VT)

Prof. Torrance Kirby (McGill University)

Dr. David Leech (University of Bristol)

Prof. Jean-Marc Narbonne (University of Laval)

Prof. Ilaria Ramelli (Sacred Heart University; Durham University; Angelicum)

Mrs. Valery Rees

Prof. Charles M. Stang (Harvard University)

Prof. Mateusz Stróżyński (Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu)

Prof. Charles Taliaferro (St. Olaf College)

Prof. Harold Tarrant (University of Newcastle, AU)

Prof. Anca Vasiliu (Paris IV Sorbonne)

Prof. Isidoros C. Katsos, FRHS (University of Athens)

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...