International Association for Presocratic Studies

The International Association for Presocratic Studies (IAPS, founded 2008) announces its fourth conference, to be held from the 30th of June to the 4th of July, 2014. The meeting will be hosted by the Interdisciplinary Center of Aristotelian Studies at the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki.

We understand the Presocratics to be the figures whose fragments and testimonies are collected in Hermann Diels' Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker (6th edn. 1951, edited by Walther Kranz). These figures include cosmologists, anti-cosmologists, sophists, philosophical poets, Pythagoreans, the fifth-century Sophists, and other intellectuals dedicated to an explanation of the world and human affairs, from Thales down to the time of Socrates (and shortly thereafter, according to Diels' non-chronological understanding of 'Presocratic'). We recognize the need for philosophical, philological, textual, doxographical, historical, literary, and religious studies, as well as studies of the reception of Presocratic thought.

For queries about membership and updates to mailing list, contact:

Daniel W. Graham
Department of Philosophy
4086 JFSB
Brigham Young University
Provo, Utah 84602
(801) 422-2223Fax (801)422-9742

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