Philosophy in the Making: Early Receptions of and Reactions to Pre-Socratic Thought, up to Plato

ORGANIZERS : CHRISTOPH BOBONICH, ALAN CODE & ANDRE LAKS

FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 2013

Welcome
1:30-2 pm   Introduction by the organizers

Session 1 
2-3:30 pm : Constantin Macris (CNRS, Paris): "Before theoria: models of wisdom in the sixth and fifth centuries"

Session  2
3:45-5:15 pm : Arnaud Macé (Université de Franche-Comté) : "The invention of historia peri phusêos, Vth century B. C."


SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 2013   

Session 3
9:15- 10:45 am  Barbara Sattler (Yale University) : "Atomism and the atomists in Plato's Timaeus"

Session  4  
11-12:30 pm   Paul Demont (Université de Paris-Sorbonne) : "Instruments and organs (ὄργανα) in the philosophical part of Hippocratic Regimen I"

Session 5   
2-3:30 pm Anthony Long (University of California at Berkeley): "Heraclitus on Measure and the Explicit Emergence of Rationality"

Session 6
3:45-5:15 pm   André Laks (Université de Paris-Sorbonne/Universidad Panamericana, Mexico) : "The ethical import of archaic cosmologies as a principle of their (ancient) reading".

General Discussion
5:15-6.00 pm

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