Epicureanism

Tentative schedule:

8:30-9:20: breakfast 

9:20-9:30: opening remarks

9:30-11:00: Voula Tsouna, University of California, Santa Barbara: "Cyrenaics and Epicureans on the nature of pleasure"; comments by Kelly Arenson, Duquesne University

11:15-12:45: Clerk Shaw, University of Tennessee, Knoxville: "Two modes of reasoning about pleasure in Epicurean ethics"; comments by Emily Austin, Wake Forest University

12:45-1:45: lunch

1:45-3:15: Eric Brown, Washington University in St. Louis: "Animality and contingency in Cicero's critique of Epicurean ethics"; comments by Rachel Singpurwalla, University of Maryland, College Park

3:30-5:00: David Sedley, Cambridge University: "Epicurus on taxonomy and definition"; comments by Max Robitzsch, University of Pennsylvania

5:00-5:30: reception

commentator-at-large: Tim O'Keefe, Georgia State University

No registration is required, but please contact Clerk Shaw ([email protected]) if you plan to attend.