Pushing the Boundaries: Kinēsis and Peras in Aristotle’s Physics

This two-day workshop aims to explore some notions that are central to Aristotle’s construction of the physical world, especially megethos, peras, dynamis and kinēsis, as well as the structural relations and dependences obtaining between them.

Date: August 26-27, 2019

Venue: Ryle Room, Philosophy Faculty, Oxford (UK)

Provisional Program:

26th August:

2.30-4pm: Christian Pfeiffer (Toronto): “The account of quantity in Cat.6”. Respondent: Francesco Ademollo (Firenze).

30 mins break 

4.30-6:  Andreas Anagnostopoulos (LMU Munich): “Matter and Potentiality in Aristotle's GC”. Respondent: Ana Laura Edelhoff (Oxford). 

27th August:

9-10.30: Jonathan Beere (HU Berlin): “Energeia and Actuality”. Respondent: Sarah Broadie (St Andrews).

15 mins break 

10.44-12.15: Diana Quarantotto (La Sapienza, Roma): “Aristotle on place as peras akineton (Phys. IV 4, 212a20-21)”. Respondent: Michael Peramatzis (Oxford).

1 hour lunch break

1.15-2.45: Jacob Rosen (Harvard): “Zeno Beach, or, The Possibility of Actually Infinite Pluralities in Aristotle”. Respondent: Janine Gühler (Oxford).

Organised by Ursula Coope, Ondřej Černý, and Chiara Martini.

There is no registration fee, but please tell us if you are intending to come by sending an email to [email protected]