Ancient Philosophy Townsend Working Group

Upcoming talks:

Fall 2011:

October 11, 2011
Anthony Price (Birkbeck)
TBA

November 1, 2011
Chris Bobonich (Stanford)
TBA

Past events:


December 7, 2010 Joseph Barnes (UC Berkeley) “Knowledge is Teachable”

November 16, 2010 Prof. Giovanni Giorgini (U. Bologna) “Is Democracy Necessarily Based on Relativism?”

October 21, 2010 Vanessa de Harven (UC Berkeley) “Everything is Something: Why the Stoic Ontology is Principled, Coherent, and Comprehensive.”

Chris Bobonich (Stanford)
Kinch Hoekstra (Berkeley)
Voula Tsouna (UCSB)

Feb. 14 & 15, 2009
Rachel Barney (Toronto)
Socratic Intellectualism

Feb. 10th, 2009
Jessica Gelber (Berkeley)

Nov. 4th, 2008
Joe Karbowski (Berkeley)
The role of endoxa in Aristotle’s inquiry into
the human good in the Nicomachean Ethics

Oct. 21st, 2008
David Ebrey (Berkeley)
Meno’s paradox in Context

Feb. 12th, 2008 **Pierre Destree **(Universite de Louvain) Aristotle on the Pleasures of Tragedy

March 1st & 2nd, 2008 Ursula Coope(Oxford) Parts of the Soul in Aristotle

Nov. 13, 2007 David Ebrey Socratic Ethics

Oct. 23, 2007 Jessica Gelber Inherited Characteristics in Aristotle’s Embryology

Oct. 16, 2007 Paul Studtman (Davidson) On the several senses of Form in Aristotle

April 21 & 22, 2007 Malcolm Schofield(Cambridge) Plato: Political Philosophy

April 9th, 2007 Zina Gianappolou(UC Irvine) Objectivizing Protagorean Relativism: The Socratic Underpinnings of Protagoras’ Apology in Plato’s “Theaetetus.”

Thursday Nov. 9, 2006 Agnes Callard “The Good and the Possible: Aristotle on the Metaphysical Foundations of Akrasia”

October 30th, 2006 Joe Karbowski “The Role of the Human Good in Aristotelian Practical Life”

September 28, 2006 Andreas Anagnostopoulos “Aristotle on the senses of ‘dunamis’ in Metaphysics Theta”

May 8, 2006 Stephen Menn (McGill) “On Socrates First Criticisms of the Physicists (Phaedo 95e8-97b7)”

April 17, 2006 G.R.F. Ferrari “Dialogue within dialogue: Thoth and Ammon in Plato’s Phaedrus”

March 11-12, 2006 Jonathan Beere (Chicago) “The possibility of Callipolis in the Republic”

February 27, 2006 Joel Yurdin “Aristotle on Phantasia”

February 13, 2006 Andreas Anagnostopoulos “Aristotle’s definition of change”

Dec. 5, 2005: Gavin Lawrence (UCLA) “Aristotle on Free Time”

Sept. 16th, 2005: George Rudebusch (NAU) “Plato on Kripke’s Wittgenstein”

###Organizers for 2008-9: Vanessa de Harven and Joseph Barnes

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