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Samuel Scolnicov
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

List of Publications

1. Doctoral dissertation

1 (1974) Plato’s Method of Hypothesis in the Middle Dialogues. Supervisor: Prof. Bernard Williams. University of Cambridge.

2. Books

2. (1981) A Short History of Greek Philosophy: The Pre-Socratic philosophers. 221 pp. Yahdav, Tel-Aviv. (Hebrew)

3. (1988) Heraclitus and Parmenides: Testimonia and fragments. Introductions, Hebrew translation and notes. 265 pp. Bialik Institute, Jerusalem.

4 (1988) Plato’s Metaphysics of Education. 157 pp. Routledge, London and New York.

5 (1994) Essência e Existência: Oito palestras sobre a filosofia grega e a filosofia medieval judaica. 88 pp. Perspectiva, São Paulo.

6 (2003) Plato’s Parmenides. Introduction, English translation and commentary . x + 193 pp. University of California Press, Berkeley.

7 (forthcoming) Platão e o Problema Educacional (Plato and the Problem of Education). Universidade de Brasília, Brasília.

8 (forthcoming) Method and Idea: Twenty-eight studies in Plato Magnes, Jerusalem. (Hebrew).
(A collection of articles previously published in Hebrew and in other languages.)

3. Books edited

9 (1963) C. Rabin, Biblical Hebrew Syntax. Mif’al Haschichpul, Jerusalem.123 pp. (Hebrew)

10 (1964) P. Haezrahi, On the Perfect Being. Mif’al Haschichpul and the Faculty of Humanities of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 399 pp. (Hebrew)

11 (1974) Iyyun 24: In memoriam P. Haezrahi. (Hebrew)

12 (1975) S. Rivière, Studies in Greek Philosophy. Ed. by M. Brinker, S. Pines and S. Scolnicov. Magnes, Jerusalem. 125 pp. (Hebrew)

13 (1980) I. Scheffler, Conditions of Knowledge. Hebrew tr. by D. Heyd; philosophical revision by S. Scolnicov. The School of Education of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 172 pp.

14 (1987–8) The Israeli General Encyclopedia. Philosophy editor. Keter, Jerusalem. 4 vols. (Hebrew)

15 (1992) Aristotle, Metaphysics Book I. Tr. into Hebrew by Leon Roth, revised by S. Scolnicov. Magnes, Jerusalem. 98 pp.

16 (1996) Education for Critical Thinking. Ed. and tr. by Y. Harpaz^PE, Scientific advisor: S. Scolnicov. Magnes and Branco Weiss Institute, Jerusalem. 144 pp. (Hebrew)

17 (2001) Crossroads: Values and Education in Israeli Society. Ed. by Y. Iram^PE, S. Scolnicov, J. Cohen and E.P. Schachter. Ministry of Education, Jerusalem. 723 pp. (Hebrew)

18 (2001) Greek Philosophy. Vol 4: A collection of essays. Ed. by S. Scolnicov^PE and E. Weinryb. The Open University of Israel, Tel-Aviv. 247 pp. (Hebrew)

19 (2002) New Images of Plato: Dialogues on the Idea of the Good. Ed. by G. Reale and S. Scolnicov^PE. Academia Verlag, St. Augustin. 444 pp.

20 (2003) Plato’s Laws: Political theory into practice. Ed. by S. Scolnicov and L. Brisson. International Plato Studies. Academia Verlag, St. Augustin. 365 pp.

4. Chapters in collections

21 (1977) The simile of the large and small letters. In: The Just and the Unjust, ed. by A. Kasher and M. Dascal, pp. 79–83. Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv. (Hebrew)

22 (1978) Truth, neutrality and the philosophy teacher. In: Growing Up with Philosophy, ed. by M. Lipman and A.M. Sharp, pp. 392–404. Temple University Press, Philadelphia.

23 (1981) The true political man: Socrates on knowledge and politics, in: The Humanist as Citizen: Essays in memory of Charles Frankel, ed. by J. Agresto and P. Riesenberg, pp. 26–34. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill.

24 (1982) Socrate: La conoscenza e la politica. In: Atti dell’Istituto Universitario Orientale. Napoli. (Italian)

25 (1983) Eraclito e la preistoria del principio di non-contraddizione. In: Atti del Symposium Heracliteum 1981, ed. by L. Rossetti, pp. 97–110. Edizioni dell’ Ateneo, Roma.

26 (1985) Learning rules and learning concepts. In: School and Education: Essays in honor of Seymour Fox, ed. by Z. Lamm, pp. 257–264. The School of Education of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

27 (1988) Maimonide et le Dieu des philosophes. In: Individu et société: L’influence d’Aristote dans le monde méditerranéen, ed. by T. Zarcone, pp. 77–82. Editions Isis, Istanbul and Paris.

28a (1991) ‘To me, Callicles, he seems exceedingly in earnest’: On taking Socratic irony seriously. In: The Philosophy of Socrates, ed. by C. Boudouris, pp. 324–332. International Center for Greek Philosophy, Athens.

28b (1991) The seriousness of Socratic irony, Iyyun 40:137–149. (Hebrew)

29 (1992) What is Pythagoras doing in Plato’s Parmenides? In: Pythagorean Philosophy, ed. by C. Boudouris, pp. 195–204. International Center for Greek Philosophy, Athens.

30 (1993) What is education? In: In memoriam Zvi Adar, 5–12. The School of Education of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. (Hebrew)

31 (1994) Grace, justice and weakness of the will: Religion and philosophy in Maimonides. In: Between Religion and Ethics, ed. by D. Stetman and A. Sagi, pp. 157–170. Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan. (Hebrew)

32 (1994) Derrida’s drug and Plato’s antidote: Socratic dialogues as moral philosophy. In: Reflective Commitment: Essays in literature and moral philosophy, ed. by L. Toker, pp. 3–23.

33 (1995) Le parricide déguisé: Platon contre Parménide (The disguised parricide: Plato against Parmenides). In: Contre Platon II: Renverser le platonisme, ed. by M. Dixsaut, pp. 215–234. J. Vrin, Paris.(French)

34a (1995) On humanism. In: The Role and Place of the Humanities in Education, ed. by Y. Iram, pp. 599–606. Bar-Ilan University and the World Association for Educational Research, Ramat-Gan.

34b (1996) On humanism. In: Moulding and Rehabilitation: Papers in memory of Prof. Akiva Ernst Simon and Prof. Carl Frankenstein (1996), ed. by Z. Lamm, pp. 303–318. The School of Education, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.(Hebrew)

35 (1996) Humanistic education as total education. In: Educational policy planning, ed. Y. Danilov, pp. 63–81. Ministry of Education and Culture, Jerusalem. (Hebrew)

36a (1996) The private and public logos. In: The Philosophy of the Logos, ed. by C. Boudouris, pp.196–204. International Society for Greek Philosophy, Athens.

36b (1996) The private logos and the public logos: Philosophy and the other in Greek thought until Socrates, Iyyun 45:463–470. (Hebrew version)

36c (2000) Si_ré de he gōnggòng de lúokési: qián sūx_là si_xiăng zhōng de zhésué xie* geti* (The private and public logos: Philosophy and the individual in Greek thought until Socrates). In: Xi_fāng zhéxué jiăngyănlù (Western Philosophy), ed. by Li Chaojie, pp. 1–11. Peking University, Beijing. (Chinese translation by Li Chaojie)

37 (1998) The contribution of the study of philosophy in high-schools to education for democracy. In: Philosophie et democratie en Europe, pp. 155–163. Commission nationale de la Bulgarie pour UNESCO, Sophia.

38 (1996) The ‘bookcase’ of the Jewish humanist. In: Judaism and Humanism, pp. 53–61. Ministry of Education and School of Education, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. (Hebrew)

39 (1997) S. Scolnicov^PA, N. Gover and I. Soreq, Teacher education as total humanistic education. In: Educational Policy Planning: Position papers 1995–1996, ed. Y. Danilov, vol. 2, pp. 125–136. Ministry of Education and Culture, Jerusalem. (Hebrew)

40 (1997) Freedom and education in Plato’s Timaeus. In: Interpreting the Timaeus/Critias, ed. by T. Calvo and L. Brisson, 363–374. International Plato Studies. Academia Verlag, S. Augustin.

41 (1997) ‘And if not — to be put over him from without’: The Socratic roots of Plato’s violence of reason. In: Plato’s Political Philosophy, ed. C. Boudouris, vol. 2, pp. 175–181. International Society for Greek Philosophy, Athens.

42 (1998) Plato: Diseases of the soul, diseases of the body. In: Philosophy and Medicine, ed. by C. Boudouris, vol. 2, pp. 198–205. International Society for Greek Philosophy, Athens.

43 (1998) Plato and modern education. In: Plato’s Philosophy of Education and Its Relevance to Contemporary Society, ed. by J.D. Gericke and P.J. Maritz, pp. 457–465. The South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, Pretoria.

44 (1999) Plato: Education as the development of reason. In: Education and History: Cultural and political contexts, ed. by R. Feldhai and I. Etkes, pp. 23–32. Zalman Shazar Centre for the History of Israel, Jerusalem. (Hebrew)

45 (1998) Plato against tragedy. In: Greek Philosophy and the Arts, ed. by C. Boudouris. International Society for Greek Philosophy, Athens.

46a (2000). Rúhédú băilátú de dùihuà (How to read a platonic Dialogue). In: Xi_fāng zhéxué jiăngyănlù (Western Philosophy), ed. by Li Chaojie, pp. 12–25. Peking University, Beijing. (Chinese tr. by Li Chaojie.)

46b Como ler um diálogo platônico, Hypnos 11 (2003): Platão, Ética e Conhecimento II, pp. 49-59.

47 (2000) Direitos e o conceito de pessoa moral: As raízes judaicas. In: Direitos Humanos no Limiar do Século XXI: Os judeus, ed. by A. Novinsky. Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo.

48 (2000) Euthydemus’ philosophy of language. In: Plato’s Lysis, Charmides, Euthydemus, ed. by T.M. Robinson and L. Brisson, pp. 115–122. International Plato Studies. Academia Verlag, St. Augustin.

49 (2001) Samuel Scolnicov^PE and I. Soreq, Values. In: [17] Crossroads: Values and Education in Israeli Society (2001), ed. by Y. Iram^PE, S. Scolnicov, J. Cohen and E.P. Schachter, pp. 9–38. Ministry of Education, Jerusalem. (Hebrew)

50 (2001) Truth and faith: Pluralistic value education. In: [17] Crossroads: Values and Education in Israeli Society (2001), ed. by Y. Iram^PE, S. Scolnicov, J. Cohen and E.P. Schachter, pp. 702–715. Ministry of Education, Jerusalem. (Hebrew)

51 (2003) New images of Plato. In: [19] New Images of Plato: Dialogues on the Idea of the Good, ed. by G. Reale and S. Scolnicov, pp. 15–25. Academia Verlag, St. Augustin.

52 (2003) Pleasure and responsibility in Plato’s Laws. In: [20] Plato’s Laws: Political Philosophy into Practice, ed. by S. Scolnicov and L. Brisson. International Plato Studies. Academia Verlag, St. Augustin.

53a (forthcoming) Plato’s ethics of irony. In: Plato ethicus, ed. by M. Migliori. Academia Verlag, St. Augustin.

53b (forthcoming) L’etica platonica dell’ironia. In: Plato ethicus, ed. by M. Migliori. Mondadori, Milano.

54a (forthcoming) Anamnèse et structure des idées dans le Théétète et dans le Parménide. In: La philosophie de Platon, vol. 2, ed. by Michel Fattal. L’Harmattan, Paris.

54b (1999) A anamnese e a estrutura das idéias: O Teeteto e o Parmênides. In: Anamnese e Saber, ed. by J.G. Trindade Santos, pp. 172–200. Imprensa Nacional — Casa da Moeda, Lisboa.

55a (forthcoming) Platão contra o atomismo lógico. In: As interfaces de Platão na história, ed. Jaime Paviani. Pontífica Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brasil.

55b (forthcoming) Plato against logical atomism. In: Festschrift Jan Wolenski, ed. Jan Hartmann. Krakow.

56 (forthcoming) The conditions of knowledge in Plato’s Parmenides. In: Parmenides, ed. Aleš Havliček. Oikoumene, Prague.

5. Articles

57a (1971) On the epistemological significance of Plato’s theory of ideal numbers, Museum Helveticum 28:72–92.

57b (1969) On the epistemological significance of Plato’s theory of ideal numbers, Iyyun 20:186–210. (Hebrew)

58 (1971) Towards a new formulation of the problem of semantic fields and tropes, Lešonenu 35:254–271. (Hebrew)

59 (1971) On education and non-education, Megamot 17:311–320. (Hebrew)

60 (1973) Gorgias, or on the absolute scepticism of P. Haezrahi, Iyyun 24:1–9. (Hebrew)

61 (1973) Plato on A and not-A, Iyyun 24:217–226. (Hebrew)

62 (1974) Philosophy studies in high-school, Iyyunim be-Hinuch 5:119–24. (Hebrew)

63 (1975) Plato’s Phaedo as an example of the hypothetical method, Eshkolot 7:45–64. (Hebrew)

64 (1975) Philebus 15B1–8, Scripta Classica Israelica 1:3–13.

65 a (1975) Hypothetical method and rationality in Plato, Kant-Studien 66:157–162.

65b (1975) Hypothetical method and rationality in Plato. In: The Rational and the Irrational, ed. by M. Dascal and A. Parush, pp. 123–128. Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva. (Hebrew).

66 (1976) Three aspects of Plato’s philosophy of learning and instruction, Paideia 5:50–62. Plato issue.

67a (1978) Reason and passion in the platonic soul, Dionysus 2:35–48.

67b (1977) Razão e emoção na psicologia platônica, Revista latinoamericana de filosofia 3:145–158.

68 (1978) Changing the concept of conceptual change, Philosophy of Education 1978, pp. 259–266.

69a (1982) An image of perfection: The good and the rational in Plato’s material universe, Revue de philosophie ancienne 9:35–67.

69b (1981) Perfection and its image: Nature and reason in Plato’s Timaeus, Iyyun 30:227–260. (Hebrew)

70 (1982) Plato’s Euthydemus: A study on the relations between logic and education, Scripta Classica Israelica 6:19–29.

71 (1983) Dilemas de la universidad moderna. CINTERPLAN, Caracas.

72 (1983) Knowledge and opinion in Plato’s Republic, Iyyun 32:230–239. (Hebrew)

73a (1984) Il Parmenide di Platone: Prolegomini ad una re-interpretazione, Symbolon 1: Momenti e Problemi di Storia del Platonismo, ed. F. Romano, pp. 9–36.

73b (1984) Plato’s Parmenides: Prolegomena to a new interpretation, Iyyun 33:459–479. (Hebrew)

74 (1986) I searched myself (Heraclitus 101 DK), Scripta Classica Israelica 7:1–12.

75 (1986) Socrates on the unity of the person, Scripta Classica Israelica 7:13–25.

76 (1986) ‘All is a name’: Parmenides on language and the world, Iyyun 35:90–100. (Hebrew)

77 (1988) The curriculum and the democratic idea, Iyyunim Behinuch 19. (Hebrew)

78 (1990) The logical and the psychological in Plato, Hermatena 149: The Heritage of Platonism, pp. 7–17.

79 (1992) Love and the method of hypothesis, Méthexis 5:69–77.

80 (1993) Friends and friendship in Plato:Some remarks on the Lysis, Scripta Classica Israelica 12:67–74

81 (1994) Socrates, Plato and the development of reason: A rejoinder to Professor Sichel, Studies in Philosophy and Education 13:177–184.

82 (1997) Prophetic parables and philosophic falsehoods, Scripta Classica Israelica 16:227–238.

83 (1998) A opinião do outro: Os gregos e os judeus, Nova Renascença 18.69–71: A Diáspora Judia, ed. by A. Novinsky, pp. 153–169.

84a (1999) Ist eine Erziehung zum Pluralismus unvereinbar mit realer Nichtübereinstimmung? Toleranz, Minderheiten, Dialog. Teil II. Mitteilungen des Instituts für Wissenschaft und Kunst 54.1:27–32. (German tr. by F. Wimmer.)

84b (1996) Is education for pluralism incompatible with real disagreement? In: Education and Change, eds. J.H. Coetzee and T.G. Smith, pp. 59–64. University of South Africa, Pretoria.

85a (2000) The problematic community of inquiry: Socrates and Kant on Lipman and Dewey, Thinking 15:41-45.

85b (1999) A problemática comunidade de investigação: Sócrates e Kant sobre Lipman e Dewey. In: Filosofia para Crianças em Debate, ed. by W.O. Kohan and B. Leal, pp. 89–96. Vozes, Petrópolis.

86 (2003) ‘Things worth wondering at’:Sandra Peterson’s Parmenides, The New Schoolman 30: 279–287.

87 (2004) ‘The two faces of Platonic knowledge’, Plato: The internet journal of the International Plato Society 4.

6. Text-books

1-3       Samuel Scolnicov^PAand Elazar Weinryb, Greek Philosophy. The Open University of Israel, Tel-Aviv. (Hebrew)
                     Vol 1: (1997) Before Socrates. 134 pp.
                      Vol 2: (1997) Socrates and Plato. 367 pp.
                      Vol 3: (1998) Aristotle. 301 pp.

7. Edited text-books

4-9 Sources for the Study of Philosophy in High School. Texts, notes and questions. The School of Education, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the Ministry of Education and Culture. (Hebrew)

(1977) What Is Philosophy. Ed. by Y. Ben-Shlomo^PE, D. Heyd and S. Scolnicov. 53 pp.

(1978). Ethics. Ed. by Y. Ben-Shlomo, D. Heyd, Y. Ofrat and S. Scolnicov^PE. 99 pp.

(1979) Theory of Knowledge. Ed. by Y. Ben-Shlomo, M. Binnenstock, D. Heyd, S. Scolnicov^PE and E. Yakira. 136 pp.

(1984) Political Philosophy. Ed. by M. Binnenstock, D. Heyd, S. Scolnicov^PE and E. Yakira.145 pp.

(1986) Aesthetics. Ed. by D. Heyd, Y. Mathias, R. Shusterman and S. Scolnicov^PE. 88 pp.

(1995) Philosophy of Religion. Ed. by D. Heyd, Y. Mathias, S. Scolnicov^PE and E. Yakira. 124 pp.

(1996) Philosophy for the Upper Grades of State High School:Teacher’s Guide. Ed. by M. Binnenstock, D. Heyd, Y. Mathias, S. Scolnicov^PE and O. Schwarz. The School of Education, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the Ministry of Education and Culture. 130 pp.(Hebrew)

8. Entries in Encyclopedias

10 Hebrew Encyclopedia. Entries: Catharsis, Celsus, Clemens of Alexandria, Cosmology and cosmogony in Greek philosophy, Critias, Cynics, Cyrenaic school, Parmenides, Plotinus, Prodicus, Pythagoras of Samos and Pythagoreans, Thales, Themistius, Theophrastus, Therapeuts, Zeller (Eduard). (Hebrew)

11 (1996) Plato. In: Philosophy of Education: An Encyclopedia, ed. by J.J. Chambliss, pp. 483–489. Garland, New York.

12 (1998) Education. In: Lexicon of Education and Teaching, ed. by Y. Kashti, M. Arieli and S. Shleski. Ramot, Tel-Aviv. (Hebrew)

13 Plato. In: History of Childhood, ed. in chief Paula S. Fass. Macmillan, New York (accepted for publication)

9. Papers in conferences and invited lectures

The First Israel Philosophical Conference. Beer-Sheva, 1973
Rationality and irrationality in Plato (Hebrew)

The Annual Conference of the Association for the Promotion of Classical Studies in Israel. Tel-Aviv, 1974
Reason and emotion in the platonic soul (Hebrew) [65]

The Second Israel Philosophical Conference. Tel-Aviv, 1975
The simile of the large and small letters (Hebrew) [21]

Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 1975
Razão e emoção na psicologia platônica

National Endowment for the Humanities Seminar for School Administrators. Harvard University, 1975
Kant’s Two Worlds

The Annual Conference of the Association for the Promotion of Classical Studies in Israel. Jerusalem, 1977
Heraclitus and Parmenides: The pre-history of the Principle of Non-contradiction (Hebrew)

Centenary Symposium on Martin Buber. Harvard and MIT Hillels and Harvard Center for the Study of World Religions, 1978
Buber on education

The Philip W. Lown Lecture Series in Jewish Education. Hebrew College, Brookline, Mass., 1978
Moral autonomy and Jewishness

34th Annual Meeting of the Philosophy of Education Society, Indianapolis, 1978
Changing the concept of conceptual change [66]

National Humanities Center, North Carolina, 1979
An image of perfection: the good and the rational in Plato’s material universe [67]

Annual Meeting, North Carolina Philosophical Society, 1979
Heraclitus and Parmenides: Notes to a pre-history of the Principle of Non-contradiction

The Sixth Israel Philosophical Conference. Beer-Sheva, 1979
The ungrudging god: Reason and necessity in Plato’s Timaeus (Hebrew)

The Annual Conference of the Association for the Promotion of Classical Studies in Israel. Jerusalem, 1979
Plato’s Euthydemus: A study on the relation of logic and education (Hebrew) [68]

Symposium Heracliteum. Università di Chieti, 1981
Eraclito e il Principio di non-contraddizione [24]

The Annual Conference of the Association for the Promotion of Classical Studies in Israel. Tel-Aviv, 1981
I searched myself (Heraclitus 101 DK) [72]

Istituto Universitario Orientale. Napoli, 1982
Socrate: La conoscenza e la politica

. Seminario sobre Educación y Futuro. CINTERPLAN, Santiago de Chile
Dilemas de la universidad moderna [69]

The Annual Conference of the Association for the Promotion of Classical Studies in Israel. Tel-Aviv, 1983
Socrates on the unity of the person [73]

The Annual Conference of the Israeli Association for Education Research. Jerusalem, 1983
Learning rules and learning concepts (Hebrew)

Università di Catania, Sicily, 1984
Introduzione alla storia della filosofia ebraica nel medioevo

The Annual Conference of the Association for the Promotion of Classical Studies in Israel. Tel-Aviv, 1985
Friends and friendship in Plato’s Lysis (Hebrew) [78]

The Eleventh Israel Philosophical Conference, Haifa, 1985
Education and knowledge in Plato’s Protagoras (Hebrew)

            Conférence Permanente Méditerranéenne pour la Coopération Internationale:
                      Individu et société: L’influence d’Aristote dans le monde méditerranéen. Istanbul, 1986
                      Maimonide et le Dieu des philosophes: Observations sur l’aristotélisation de la morale biblique

Università degli studi di Genova, 1987
Un’imagine della perfezione: Il bene e il razionale nel Timeo di Platone

Università degli studi di Padova, 1987
Il parricidio nascosto: Parmenide 137–147

            The Annual Conference of the Association for the Promotion of Classical Studies in Israel. Jerusalem, 1987
                      Love and the perfection of the individual in Plato (Hebrew)

             The Thirteenth Israel Philosophical Conference. Tel-Aviv, 1987
                      Theaetetus, or On recollection (Hebrew)

Universidade de São Paulo, 1988
Essência e existência: Oito palestras sobre a filosofia grega e a filosofia medieval do judaismo [5]

Halbert Lecture, University of Toronto, 1989
Maimonides and the God of the philosophers: Some further reflections on the aristotelization of Biblical morality

The B Club, University of Cambridge, 1989
Parmenides and Plato’s Parmenides

II Symposium Platonicum. Perugia, 1989
Love and the method of hypothesis [77]

The Israel Philosophy Conference, Bar-Ilan University, 1990
Grace, justice and weakness of the will: Religion and philosophy in Maimonides (Hebrew) [34]

The Center for Literary Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1990: Literature and Moral Philosophy
Derrida’s drug and Plato’s antidote: Socratic dialogue as moral philosophy (Invited paper) [32]

Second International Conference on Greek Philosophy. Samos, 1990: The Philosophy of Socrates
‘To me, Callicles, he seems exceedingly in earnest’: On taking Socratic irony seriously [28]

Université Paris-XII: Pour et contre Platon, 1990
Le parricide déguisé: Platon contre Parménide [33]

Conférence Permanente Méditerranéenne pour la Coopération Internationale: Platone e le Società del Mondo Mediterraneo: Lo Stato di Diritto e lo Diritto dello Stato. Trieste, 1991
The ideal state — philosophical or prophetic?

World Association for Educational Research: 11th International Congress. Jerusalem, 1993): The Role and Place of the Humanities in Education for the World of the 21st Century
On humanism [34]

Universidade de São Paulo
O Menon como introdução à filosofia de Platão

The Eighteenth Conference of the Israel Historical Society: Education and History. Jerusalem, 1994
Plato: Education as the development of reason [44]

Seventh International Conference on Greek Philosophy: The Theory and Philosophy of Logos. Samos, 1995
The private and public logos [36]

IV Symposium Platonicum: The Timaeus. Granada, 1995
Freedom and education in the Timaeus (Plenary lecture) [40]

International Conference on Education and Change. Pretoria, 1995
Is education for pluralism compatible with real disagreement? [82]

             XXVI^a Semana Brasileira de Filosofia: Platão e o problema educacional. Universidade de Brasília, 1996 [5]
                      I. Do psicológico ao lógico
                      II. Ironia e maiêutica
                      III. A virtude popular

UNESCO: Philosophie et democracie en Europe. University of Sophia, 1996
The contribution of the study of philosophy in high-schools to education for democracy (Invited lecture) [37]

Eighth International Conference on Greek Philosophy: Plato’s Political Philosophy. Samos, 1996
Plato on the violence of reason [41]

The Annual Conference of the Association for the Promotion of Classical Studies in Israel. Jerusalem, 1997
Plato against tragedy [45]

First International Conference of the South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities: Plato’s Philosophy of Education and Its Relevance to Contemporary Society. Pretoria, 1997
Plato and modern education [43]

Ninth International Conference on Greek Philosophy: Philosophy and Medicine. Samos, 1997
Plato: Diseases of the soul, disease of the body [42]

Universidad de Buenos Aires. Cátedra Martin Buber. 1997
Filósofos y profetas

Direitos Humanos no Limiar do Século XXI: Os judeus. Universidade de São Paulo, 1997
Direitos e o conceito de pessoa moral: As raízes judias [47]

Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy: Paideia: Philosophy Educating Humanity. Boston, 1998
Plato on education as the development of reason

V Symposium Platonicum. Toronto, 1998
Euthydemus’ philosophy of language [48]

Education and History. Jerusalem, 1999
Plato: Education as the development of reason (Hebrew) [44]

Boston University, 1999
Maimonides on grace and justice (Invited lecture)

International Congress on Philosophy in Schools. Brasília, 1999
A problemática comunidade de investigação: Sócrates e Kant contra Lipman e Dewey [83]

XI International Conference on Greek Philosophy: Greek Philosophy and the Arts. Samos, 1999
Plato against tragedy [45]

Peking University, 1999
How to read a platonic dialogue (Invited lecture) [46]

Nanjing University, 1999
How to read a platonic dialogue (Invited lecture) [46]

Internationale Akademie für Philosophie, Liechtenstein, 2000: New images of Plato
New images of Plato [51]

VI Symposium Platonicum. Jerusalem, 2001
Pleasure and responsibility in Plato’s Laws [52]

Original Cultures, Peking University. Lanzhou, 2001
The Greek and Hebrew views

The Metaphysics of Plato and Aristotle. St. Louis, 2002
‘Things worth wondering at’: On Sandra Peterson’s Parmenides (Invited paper) [84]

Universidade de Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2003: As interfaces de Platão na história
Platão contra o atomismo lógico

The XXI World Congress of Philosophy, Instanbul, 2003
The two faces of Platonic knowledge

The Czech International Plato Society, Prague, 2003: Parmenides
The conditions of knowledge in Plato’s Parmenides

8. Conference organization

(2000) New Images of Plato, Internationale Akademie für Philosophie, Lechtenstein

(2001) VI Symposium Platonicum, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

^PAPrincipal author.

^PEPrincipal editor.