Samet Bağçe (METU)
“The Two Problems of Construction in Geometry in the Meno”
Date: Friday 24 March, 2017
Time: 1100-1230
Place: G-160
Abstract: My aim in this talk is two-fold: firstly, to argue for the claim that the two problems of geometry presented in the Meno seem to be connected to each other, and secondly, to offer, in connection with the first claim, a conjecture concerning the nature of the second problem of geometry brought up in the dialogue at 86e. I shall offer, in particular, a conjecture concerning how we should understand the second problem of construction in geometry.
