Philosophising with the Greats

 Thursday 28 September

14:00 Rainolds room. Meet and greet

Chairperson: John Pemberton (Durham University)

14:30 – 16:00 Barbara Sattler (Bochum University) 'Spatial Notions in Early Greek Thought 

16:00 –16:30 Tea break

16:30 – 18:00 Chiara Martini (Oxford University) ‘Extension but not Space: Aristotle on Intelligible Matter’

18:00 Drinks reception sponsored by Edinburgh University Press for Dialogoi. Ancient Philosophy Today

 

Friday 29 September 

Seminar Room.

Chairperson: Susan Brower-Toland (St. Louis University)

9:30 – 11:00 Richard Neels (Oklahoma State University) 'Fundamentality and Forms in Plato’s Parmenides' 

11:00 – 11:15 Coffee break

11:15 – 12:45 David Lefebvre (Sorbonne Université) 'Power, Potentiality, Powerfulness: Aristotle's Conception of Dunamis'

12:45 – 14:00 Lunch 

Chairperson: Jeff Brower (Purdue University)

14:00 –15:30 Christian Pfeiffer (University of Toronto) ‘Aristotle on the Senses and Causes of Being in H.2 '

15:30 – 15:45 Coffee break

15:45 – 17:15 Katja Vogt (Columbia University) 'Metaphysics Without Essences'

17:15 – 17:30 Coffee/tea break

17:30 – 19:00 Ricardo Salles (National Autonomous University of Mexico) 'Everlasting Recurrence in Stoic Philosophy'  

 

Saturday 30 September

Rainolds room.

Chairperson: Lea Cantor (Cambridge University)

9:30 – 11:00 Graham Priest (CUNY Graduate Center) ‘The Contradictory Dao'

11:00 –11:15 Coffee break

11:15 – 12:45 Michael Della Rocca (Yale University) ‘Humeanism in Spinoza and in Hume: Some Pathologies’

12:45-14:00 Lunch 

 

Conference organisers: Anna Marmodoro and John Pemberton 

Contact emails: anna.marmodoro@philosophy.ox.ac.uk;  j.pemberton@lse.ac.uk 

 

Registration is required through the conference website: https://pembertonjohn5.wixsite.com/website-1.