Ancient Infinity and Infinite Regress Arguments

It is my pleasure to announce the final programme for out workshop:

INFINITY AND INFINITE REGRESS ARGUMENTS

14th- 15th July, Riston Room, Department of Classics and Ancient History, 38 North Bailey, Durham. 

Please let me know if you plan to attend and whether you would like to come to the conference dinner on [email protected]. 

Programme

9.00-9.30 Registration

Jeanne Pijnenburg (Groningen)

July 14th 9.30-11.00 

Transmission, Emergence and Fading Foundations

Tamer Nawar (Oxford)

July 14th 11.30-13.00 

Ad Infinitum

Janine Gühler (St. Andrews)

July 14th 14.30-16.00 

How can Aristotle’s account of infinity help us understand his view on mathematical objects?

Dhananjay Jaganathan (Chicago)

July 14th 16.15-17.45 

Aristotle on the Highest Good: A Lesson in Reading Regress Arguments

Daniel Coren (Colorado)

July 14th 18.00-19.30 

Making Sense of the Sentence: NE I.2.1094a18-22

20.00 Workshop Dinner

Pieter Sjoerd Hasper (Indiana)

July 15th 9.00-10.30 

Aristotle's Account of Infinity in Physics 3.6 in its Different Contexts

Darcy Otto (Quest)

July 15th 10.45-12.15 

What's so Bad about the Resemblance Regress (Parmenides 132c–133a)?

Jun Yeob Lee (Durham)

July 15th 12.30-14.00 

Are the Epicurean minima unimaginably small yet finite quanta?

14.00 

This workshop is kindly supported by Durham University, Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham and the British Academy.