Welcome to Plato's Pod, a bi-weekly podcast of group discussions on the dialogues of Plato, the phil
The focus of Plato's dialogue the Cratylus is the origin and use of names applied to things, and our
In this introduction to Plato's Cratylus and season 3 of the podcast, James Myers reviews the highli
James Myers and Lantern Jack, host of the Ancient Greece Declassified podcast, discuss the relevance
Season two of group discussions on Plato’s Pod concluded on June 19, 2022, when members of the Toron
In the first of two sessions on the Parmenides, members of the Toronto Philosophy, Calgary Philosoph
In the conclusion of Plato’s Statesman, the Visitor from Elea describes the role of time and the rul
We often use the term “social fabric” by way of analogy to the complex economic and governing relati
Is the leader born with the skills of statesmanship, or else what is the source of the expertise and
Our dialogue on the Sophist concluded on April 3, 2022 when participants from the Toronto Philosophy
Is there relevance today, 2,400 years after Plato raised it in The Sophist, to the question of what
While the word “sophist” is no longer in general use, there are many examples today of sophistry whi
Is the mind the cause of change and of differences in physical outcomes, as Socrates states in the c
The nature of wisdom was a focus at the outset of our second session on Plato’s Phaedo, when members
In our first of three episodes on Plato’s Phaedo, on January 23, 2022 members of the Toronto Philoso
Can an algorithm care about its outcomes, and a computer observe itself? These were among the fascin
What is justice? This is the question that began The Republic, when Socrates and friends set out to
To today’s reader it may seem unusual that the philosopher’s first order of knowledge is number and
When Socrates declared that cities will have no rest from evils until philosophers rule, was he refe
Our examination of The Republic continued on October 31, 2021 as members of the Toronto Philosophy a
