Ethics Between Plato and Aristotle -- Stanford Conference

Ethics Between Plato and Aristotle – Stanford Conference

Please join us for the Stanford portion of a joint Stanford-Leuven Conference series, Ethics Between Plato and Aristotle, co-organized by Chris Bobonich and Pierre Destrée.

All times PDT. Talks will take place at Stanford University (beginning Friday 9-12:30 in Building 50, Room 50H; the rest of the conference will take place in Building 110, Room 112). All sessions are also available via Zoom—please register here: https://stanford.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYsdO-gpj0pHtRdOITVENVDIfnuRGgd7ehT

NOTE: PROGRAM REVISED APRIL 19 

Friday, April 21st  

8:30-9:00 Breakfast

9:00-9:15 – Opening Remarks

9:15-11:15 – Jessica Moss (NYU): Plato’s Invention of Phronesis [Zoom]

11:15-12:30 Lunch

12:30-14:30 – Pierre Destrée (Louvain): Enjoying Theater and Living a Happy Life: How did Aristotle Respond to the Banishment of the Poets?

14:30-15:00 Break

15-17:00 – Monte Johnson (UCSD): Democritus, Plato, and Aristotle on Laws, Exhortation, and Autonomy

18:00 Conference Dinner

Saturday, April 22nd

8:30-9:00 Breakfast

9:00-11:00 – Terence Irwin (Oxford/Stanford): Aristotle’s Progress and Plato’s Later Dialogues [Zoom]

11-11:15 Break

11:15-13:15 – Katja Vogt (Columbia): Plato vs. Aristotle: Exculpatory Ignorance [Zoom]

13:15-14:15 Lunch

14:15-16:15 – Rachana Kamtekar (Cornell): Commensuration and Currency [Zoom]

16:15-16:30 Break

16:30-18:30 – Mitzi Lee (UC Boulder): Distributive justice in Plato and Aristotle

19:00 Conference Dinner

Sunday, April 23rd 

8:30-9:00 Breakfast

9:00-11:00 – Christoph Horn (Bonn): Theory of Goods in Plato and Aristotle [Zoom]

11-11:15 Break

11:15-13:15 – Chris Bobonich (Stanford): Conditionality Arguments in Plato and Aristotle

13:15-14:15 Lunch