Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium Ancient Philosophy: Volume XXVIII (2012) in Bloomington, MN

This volume, the twenty-eighth year of published proceedings, contains seven papers and commentaries presented to the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy during academic year 2011-12. The paper topics include: stages of early Greek cosmology, the decline of political virtue in
Republic 8-9
, two dogmas of Platonism, Meno's paradox and Sisyphus, puzzles and perplexity in Plato's dialogues,
Nous
and its objects in Aristotle, and Plotinus' Socratic intellectualism.