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The conference will take place on October 12 &\; 13 on the \;Northwestern and University of Chicago campuses.

The conference will focus on the following questions: \;How are humans different from other animals? And how should our \;being animals matter to us? We are interested both in how our \;distinctive human features affect or transform the faculties we share \;with other animals\, and in how our animality affects our cognition \;and our good. Is part of us a beast and if so must we fight it or tame it? \;Should we instead embrace it? Ancient philosophers' answers to these \;questions deeply influenced their accounts of perception\, pleasure\, \;emotion\, desire\, locomotion\, cognition and the good life. Our conference \;will explore their answers\, put them in their historical context and see \;how they relate to today's philosophical concerns.

\nFriday\, October 12\, Northwestern Campus
The Arch Room\, Norris 206
10:30 am - 5:25 pm\n

Rachana Kamtekar \;(Arizona) \;
"Plato on animals within and without"
Commentator: \;Franco Trivigno \;(Marquette) \;
Talk 10:30-11:20\, comment until 11:30. discussion until 12:15

Lunch 12:15-1:30

David O'Connor \;(Notre Dame) \;
"Socrates in Gethsemane" \;
Commentator: \;Constance Meinwald \;(UIC) \;
Talk 1:30-2:20\, comment until 2:30\, discussion until 3:25

Break 3:25-3:40

Eric Brown \;(Washington University in St. Louis) \;
"Animality and Contingency in Cicero's Critique of Epicurean Ethics" \;
Commentator: \;John Wynne \;(Northwestern)
Talk 3:40-4:30\, comment until 4:40\, discussion until 5:25

Dinner at Mysore Woodlands\, 2548 W Devon Ave. Chicago\, IL
(Transportation will be arranged for those without it.)

\nSaturday\, October 13\, University of Chicago Campus
Stuart 204
9:30 am - 6:15 pm\n

Hendrik Lorenz \;(Princeton) \;
"Character-virtue as a non-rational state in Aristotle's \;Eudemian Ethics" \;
Commentator: \;Richard Kraut \;(Northwestern)
Talk 9:30-10:20\, comment until 10:30\, discussion until 11:15

Break 11:15-11:30

Tamar Gendler \;(Yale) \;
"Modern Harp: Aristotelian Virtue and the Neuroscience of Habit" \;
Commentator: \;Christopher Frey \;(University of Chicago)
Talk 11:30-12:20\, comment until 12:30\, discussion until 1:15

Lunch 1:15-2:30

Brooke Holmes \;(Princeton) \;
"Animal Awareness and Self-Preservation in Stoic \;Oikeiōsis" \;
Commentator: \;David Ebrey \;(Northwestern)
Talk 2:30-3:20\, comment until 3:30\, discussion until 4:15

Break 4:15-4:30

Ursula Coope \;(Oxford) \;
"Rational assent and reflection: a neoplatonist development of a stoic idea"
Commentator: \;Eyjó\;lfur Emilsson \;(Oslo)
Talk 4:30-5:20\, comment until 5:30\, discussion until 6:15

Dinner at Phoenix\, 2131 S Archer Ave. Chicago\, IL
(Transportation will be arranged for those without it.)

Contact: David Ebrey (david.ebrey@gmail.com)

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