Craft, Nature, and the Good Life: Stoics and Academics on Technê

Craft, Nature, and the Good Life: Stoics and Academics on Technê

May 2-3, 2025, Geneva

Organizer: Máté Veres

The event is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (grant number: PZ00P1_193306).

Day 1 (May 2, 2025)

9.30    Welcome

10.00-11.00

Antonio Ferro (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg): 'Technê as a Socratic Heirloom: Aristotle and the Stoics’

Chair: Samuel Meister (Université de Genève)

11.15-12.15

Simon Shogry (Brasenose College, Oxford): ‘What Kind of Art is the Stoic Art of Living?’

Chair: Katerina Ierodiakonou (Université de Genève / National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)

13.45-14.45

Arianna Piazzalunga (KU Leuven): ‘Physis and Technê: An Insight in Stoic Teleology’

Chair: Gábor Betegh (Christ's College, Cambridge)

15.00-16.00

Peter Osorio (University of Maryland, College Park): ‘Expertise and Morality in Carneades’ Division of Ends’

Chair: Caterina Pellò (Université de Genève)

Day 2 (May 3, 2025)

10.00-11.00

Rachel Barney (University of Toronto): ‘Epictetus on the Power that Uses All the Others’

Chair: David Machek (Université catholique de Louvain)

11.30-12.30

Tue Søvsø (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg): ‘Stoics and Academics on Technê, Embeddedness, and Uncommitted Action’

Chair: Jacob Klein (Colgate University)