Northern Association for Ancient Philosophy Conference

Saturday March 31st

2-4 Peter Adamson (KCL): "Relativizing Aristotle's Physics: al-Razi on Place and Time"

4-4.30 Tea

4.30-6.30 Dorothea Frede (Hamburg): "The determinacy of human nature in the Nicomachean Ethics."

Dinner 7.15pm (Wudon, Great Western Road)

Sunday April 1st

9-11 Sir Geoffrey Lloyd (Cambridge): "Phusis in the Hippocratic Corpus."

11-11.30 Elevenses

11.30-12.30 Graduate paper: Yumi Suzuki (Durham) “Gorgias’ ‘On Nature’: You can also argue the opposite.”

12.30-1.30 Lunch (own arrangements)

1.30-3.30 George Boys-Stones (Durham): “‘The Second God is Also a Third One’: Numenius on the Soul.”

3.30-4.30 Graduate paper: Mark Wildish (Durham) “Sextus on nature, second nature, and subsistent nature.”

Registration £10.  Postgraduates free.
Postgraduate student bursaries are available.

If you are coming, it would be a great help if you could let the organiser know; also if you would like to have dinner on Saturday evening:

R.A.H.King, Philosophy, 69 Oakfield Avenue, Glasgow G12 8QQ ([email protected])

Also of interest to ancient philosophers in the vicinity: On Friday, March 30, 2012, at 5:30 p.m. (doors open at 5 p.m.) in Edinburgh 17th A.E. Taylor Lecture in Ancient Philosophy

'Moral Conscience: Ancient Origins of the Idea and Its Historical Aftermath' Professor Richard Sorabji, (King’s College London and Wolfson College, Oxford)

Location: Reception Room, The McEwan Hall, Teviot Place (Doorway 2) (http://www.ed.ac.uk/maps/buildings/mcewan-hall: note the entrance is Doorway 2, located in the quad - roughly from the leftmost facet on the map; the same venue as in previous years).