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Launch Event | 'A Less Familiar Plato' with Kevin Corrigan and the Cambridge Series in Religion and Platonism | 20th June 2023

On Tuesday 20th June, the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism will host Prof. Kevin Corrigan (Emory University), who will be launching his new book, A Less Familiar Plato: From Phaedo to Philebus, published by Cambridge University Press as the first in a new series, Religion and Platonism, edited by Prof. Douglas Hedley. In addition to Prof. Corrigan, speakers will include Dr Frisbee Sheffield (University of Cambridge), Prof. Stephen Gersh (University of Notre Dame), and Dr Anna Corrias (University of Cambridge).

This event, which will showcase both the volume and the series of which it is a part, will take place in the Cambridge Faculty of Divinity Runcie Room, 5-7 pm. 

 

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This event has now passed. We would like to thank Dr Sheffield, Prof. Gersh, Dr Corrias and above all Prof. Corrigan for their contributions to an deeply engaging and highly convivial evening.

 

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