Current Issues in Ancient Philosophy and Science

Programme:

June 29

Chairs: Jonathan Beere / Christoph Helmig

13.45 Welcome Address (Jonathan Beere, Christoph Helmig)

14.00 Frank de Jonge (Berlin)
A Man Begets his Actions like he Begets his Children. Aristotle on the Physiology of Recollection and Deliberation

15.00 Break

15.15 Alastair Cliff (Cambridge)
The Aristotelian Medical Problemata, their Function, Form and Roots in the Hippocratic Aphorisms and Airs, Waters, Places

16.15 Coffee

16.45 Ana Laura Edelhoff (Berlin)
Separateness as Substance Criterion in Aristotle

17.45 Break

18.00 Mareike Hauer (Leuven)
Simplicius’ Discussion of Qualitative Properties of Material Entities in his Commentary on Aristotle’s Categories, ch. 8

June 30

Chairs: Agnes Callard (morning session), Jennifer Whiting (afternoon session)

10.00 Willie Costello (Toronto)
Forms and the Metaphysics of Explanation in the Phaedo

11.00 Coffee

11.30 Mor Segev (Princeton)
Aristotle’s Allegory of the Cave as a Double Criticism

12.30 Lunch

14.00 Anders Dahl Sørensen (Berlin)
On Plato's Cosmology

15.00 Coffee

15.30 Robert Howton (Toronto)
Virtue as dunamis in Plato’s Hippias Minor

July 1

Chairs: Jan Opsomer (morning session), John Cooper (afternoon session)

10.00 Arnold Brooks (Chicago)
Metaphysics and the Law of Non-Contradiction

11.00 Coffee

11.30 Adam Crager (Princeton)
Aristotle on Finite Demonstration and Minima of Explanation
(APo i.19-22)

12.30 Lunch

14.00 Dhananjay Jagannathan (Chicago)
Aristotle on Practical Knowledge and the Starting Points of Ethical Inquiry

15.00 Coffee

15.30 Wei Cheng (Berlin)
Eudoxus and Aristotle in Agreement?

16.30 Coffee & Goodbye

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