Second Canadian Colloquium for Ancient Philosophy / Deuxième Colloque Canadien de Philosophie Ancienne
May 2, 2014 - May 4, 2014
Departments of Classical, Near Eastern & Religious Studies, and of Philosophy, University of British Columbia
Coach House
Green College, 6201 Cecil Green Park Road
Vancouver V6T 1Z1
Canada
Speakers:
Hugh Benson
University of Oklahoma
Margaret Cameron
University of Victoria
Christopher Framarin
University of Calgary
Lloyd P. Gerson
University of Toronto
Doug Hutchinson
University of Toronto
Monte Ransome Johnson
University of California, San Diego
Annie Larivée
Carleton University
Jean-Marc Narbonne
Laval University
Organisers:
Sean Coughlin
University of Western Ontario
Michael Griffin
University of British Columbia
Riin Sirkel
University of Vermont
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Friday, May 2 / Vendredi 2 mai
10-11 Registration & coffee / enregistrement et café &
11-11.15 Introductory remarks / remarques introductives
11.15-12.30 Margaret Cameron (Victoria): Fundamentality and Explanation in Neo-Aristotelian Metaphysics, or, Is ground said-in-many-ways?
12.30-13.30 Lunch / déjeuner
13.30-14.45 Hugh Benson (Oklahoma): The Method of Hypothesis: Socrates at Work in the Phaedo
14.45-15.00 Coffee break / pause-café
15.00-16.15 Jean-Marc Narbonne (Laval): La rectitude poétique: une nouveauté assumée dans la Poétique d’Aristote
16.15-16.30 Break / pause
16.30-18.00 Doug Hutchinson (Toronto) & Monte Johnson (UCSD): An Introduction to Iamblichus’ Protrepticus
Commentary by David McBryde
Chaired by Klaus Corcilius
18.00-19.00 Reception and Poster Discussion Session 1 / réception et discussion des affiches
• Giulia Bonasio (Columbia): On the Nature of Desire in Aristotle: Why desire can’t be psychophysical • Justin Bzovy (Western Ontario): Plotinus’ Phenomenological Critique of Stoic Theories of the Soul • Boris Hennig (Ryerson): The Man Without Properties • Jeremy Kirby (Albion): Is the Cyclical Argument Dead? • Thomas Marré (Pittsburgh): The Individuation of Action in Aristotle’s Poetics • Eve Rabinoff (Boston): Rational & Non-Rational Perception in Aristotle’s De Anima • John Thorp (Western Ontario): Aristotle and the Cancer Question Saturday, May 3 / Samedi 3 mai 8.45-9 Coffee & snacks / Café et collations
9-10.30 Author-Meets-Critics: Lloyd Gerson (Toronto): “From Plato to Platonism”.
Commentary by Margaret Cameron and Klaus Corcilius
10.30-10.45 Break / pause
10.45-11.20 Toomas Lott (Tartu): The Authority of Experts in the Laches
Commentary by Hugh Benson
11.25-12 Simon-Pierre Chevarie-Cossette (Montreal): Tonneau percé, tonneau habité Calliclès et Diogène: les leçons rivales de la nature
Commentary by John Thorp
12-12.15 Break / pause
12.15-12.50 Josh Wilburn (Wayne State): Preserving Reason: Courage and the Spirited Part of the Soul in Plato’s Republic
Commentary by Mark Johnstone
12.55-13.30 Roopen Majithia (Mount Allison): Law and Morality in the Nicomachean Ethics and the Bhagavad Gītā
Commentary TBD
13.30-14.45 Lunch and Poster Discussion Session 2 / déjeuner et discussion des affiches
• Giulia Bonasio (Columbia): On the Nature of Desire in Aristotle: Why desire can’t be psychophysical • Justin Bzovy (Western Ontario): Plotinus’ Phenomenological Critique of Stoic Theories of the Soul • Boris Hennig (Ryerson): The Man Without Properties • Jeremy Kirby (Albion): Is the Cyclical Argument Dead? • Thomas Marré (Pittsburgh): The Individuation of Action in Aristotle’s Poetics • Eve Rabinoff (Boston): Rational & Non-Rational Perception in Aristotle’s De Anima • John Thorp (Western Ontario): Aristotle and the Cancer Question 14.45-15.30 Annie Larivée (Carleton): The First Alcibiades: Protreptic or Mirror for Princes?
15.30-15.40 Coffee break / pause-café
15.40-16.40 Christopher Framarin (Calgary): Hedonism and the Hindu Sage
Commentary by Roopen Majithia
16.40-16.50 Break / pause
16.50-18.00 Panel: Moral and Prudential Ideas in the Philosophical Schools of Ancient Greece and Ancient India: Divergences and Convergences
• Gordon Davis (Carleton) • Christopher Framarin (Calgary) • Annie Larivée (Carleton) Chaired by Michael Griffin (UBC)
18.30 Colloquium Banquet
Sunday, May 4 / Dimanche 4 mai
9.00 Coffee & snacks / Café et collations
9.30-10.05 Mark Johnstone (McMaster): Aristotle and Alexander on the Possibility of Perceptual Error
Commentary by Giulia Bonasio
10.10-10.45 Anne Jeffrey (Georgetown), Errors of Reason in De Anima III.3
Commentary by Eve Rabinoff
10.45-11.00 Break / pause
11.00-11.35 Elaine Landry (UC Davis): Plato wasn’t a mathematical Platonist
Commentary by Thomas Marré
11.40-12.15 Simon Noriega-Olmos (São Paolo): Semantic and Ontological Assumptions in Plato’s Sophist 236d-239c
Commentary by Boris Hennig
12.15-12.30 Break & snacks / Pause et collations
12.30-13.05 Juan Pablo Bermúdez Rey (Toronto/Colombia): Habit and Agency in Aristotle
Commentary by Jeremy Kirby
13.10-13.45 Christiana Olfert (Tufts): Skeptical Investigation and its Perks
Commentary by Nathan Gilbert
13.45 Late lunch & closing remarks / déjeuner et remarques finales Venue: Green College, UBC Sponsors: The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada; the Canadian Journal of Philosophy; the UBC Departments of Philosophy and Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies Co-Organizers: Sean Coughlin (TOPOI/UWO), Michael Griffin (UBC), Riin Sirkel (Vermont)
11.15-12.30 Margaret Cameron (Victoria): Fundamentality and Explanation in Neo-Aristotelian Metaphysics, or, Is ground said-in-many-ways?
12.30-13.30 Lunch / déjeuner
13.30-14.45 Hugh Benson (Oklahoma): The Method of Hypothesis: Socrates at Work in the Phaedo
14.45-15.00 Coffee break / pause-café
15.00-16.15 Jean-Marc Narbonne (Laval): La rectitude poétique: une nouveauté assumée dans la Poétique d’Aristote
16.15-16.30 Break / pause
16.30-18.00 Doug Hutchinson (Toronto) & Monte Johnson (UCSD): An Introduction to Iamblichus’ Protrepticus
Commentary by David McBryde
Chaired by Klaus Corcilius
18.00-19.00 Reception and Poster Discussion Session 1 / réception et discussion des affiches
• Giulia Bonasio (Columbia): On the Nature of Desire in Aristotle: Why desire can’t be psychophysical • Justin Bzovy (Western Ontario): Plotinus’ Phenomenological Critique of Stoic Theories of the Soul • Boris Hennig (Ryerson): The Man Without Properties • Jeremy Kirby (Albion): Is the Cyclical Argument Dead? • Thomas Marré (Pittsburgh): The Individuation of Action in Aristotle’s Poetics • Eve Rabinoff (Boston): Rational & Non-Rational Perception in Aristotle’s De Anima • John Thorp (Western Ontario): Aristotle and the Cancer Question Saturday, May 3 / Samedi 3 mai 8.45-9 Coffee & snacks / Café et collations
9-10.30 Author-Meets-Critics: Lloyd Gerson (Toronto): “From Plato to Platonism”.
Commentary by Margaret Cameron and Klaus Corcilius
10.30-10.45 Break / pause
10.45-11.20 Toomas Lott (Tartu): The Authority of Experts in the Laches
Commentary by Hugh Benson
11.25-12 Simon-Pierre Chevarie-Cossette (Montreal): Tonneau percé, tonneau habité Calliclès et Diogène: les leçons rivales de la nature
Commentary by John Thorp
12-12.15 Break / pause
12.15-12.50 Josh Wilburn (Wayne State): Preserving Reason: Courage and the Spirited Part of the Soul in Plato’s Republic
Commentary by Mark Johnstone
12.55-13.30 Roopen Majithia (Mount Allison): Law and Morality in the Nicomachean Ethics and the Bhagavad Gītā
Commentary TBD
13.30-14.45 Lunch and Poster Discussion Session 2 / déjeuner et discussion des affiches
• Giulia Bonasio (Columbia): On the Nature of Desire in Aristotle: Why desire can’t be psychophysical • Justin Bzovy (Western Ontario): Plotinus’ Phenomenological Critique of Stoic Theories of the Soul • Boris Hennig (Ryerson): The Man Without Properties • Jeremy Kirby (Albion): Is the Cyclical Argument Dead? • Thomas Marré (Pittsburgh): The Individuation of Action in Aristotle’s Poetics • Eve Rabinoff (Boston): Rational & Non-Rational Perception in Aristotle’s De Anima • John Thorp (Western Ontario): Aristotle and the Cancer Question 14.45-15.30 Annie Larivée (Carleton): The First Alcibiades: Protreptic or Mirror for Princes?
15.30-15.40 Coffee break / pause-café
15.40-16.40 Christopher Framarin (Calgary): Hedonism and the Hindu Sage
Commentary by Roopen Majithia
16.40-16.50 Break / pause
16.50-18.00 Panel: Moral and Prudential Ideas in the Philosophical Schools of Ancient Greece and Ancient India: Divergences and Convergences
• Gordon Davis (Carleton) • Christopher Framarin (Calgary) • Annie Larivée (Carleton) Chaired by Michael Griffin (UBC)
18.30 Colloquium Banquet
Sunday, May 4 / Dimanche 4 mai
9.00 Coffee & snacks / Café et collations
9.30-10.05 Mark Johnstone (McMaster): Aristotle and Alexander on the Possibility of Perceptual Error
Commentary by Giulia Bonasio
10.10-10.45 Anne Jeffrey (Georgetown), Errors of Reason in De Anima III.3
Commentary by Eve Rabinoff
10.45-11.00 Break / pause
11.00-11.35 Elaine Landry (UC Davis): Plato wasn’t a mathematical Platonist
Commentary by Thomas Marré
11.40-12.15 Simon Noriega-Olmos (São Paolo): Semantic and Ontological Assumptions in Plato’s Sophist 236d-239c
Commentary by Boris Hennig
12.15-12.30 Break & snacks / Pause et collations
12.30-13.05 Juan Pablo Bermúdez Rey (Toronto/Colombia): Habit and Agency in Aristotle
Commentary by Jeremy Kirby
13.10-13.45 Christiana Olfert (Tufts): Skeptical Investigation and its Perks
Commentary by Nathan Gilbert
13.45 Late lunch & closing remarks / déjeuner et remarques finales Venue: Green College, UBC Sponsors: The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada; the Canadian Journal of Philosophy; the UBC Departments of Philosophy and Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies Co-Organizers: Sean Coughlin (TOPOI/UWO), Michael Griffin (UBC), Riin Sirkel (Vermont)
