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2010 Conference
The International Association for Presocratic Studies

Program

(click here for a list of abstracts)

(as of July 16th 2010)


NB 20-minute talks are scheduled within each one-hour session.

Wednesday. July 28th

4:20

Edward Hussey, 'Aristotle on the Presocratics' misunderstandings of nature'

5:30

Nie Minli, "A Notable Passage in Plato's Theaetetus 152D-E Concerning Our Understanding of Thales' Thought"

Andreas Schwab, "Philoponus and Ps.-Simplicius on Thales"

6:30

James Lesher, "Plato's Views on Xenophanes"

7:45 dinner



Thursday July 29th

8:45

Sylvana Chrysakopoulou, 'Doxography and Plato's Debt to Earlier Thinkers'

Constantin Macris, "The mysterious Petron of Himera and his mathematically constructed multiverse"

9:50

Marcus Mota, "Performative and antiperformative arguments in Heraclitus"

Francesc Casadesús, "Why did Heraclitus consider Dionysus and Hades to be the same?"

10:45 coffee

11:15

Lucia Saudelli, "Heraclitus' River-Fragments"

Serge Mouraviev, "Stoicheion: Platon, Empédocle ou Héraclite ?"

12: 20

Beatriz Bossi, 'Heraclitus B 32 Revisited in the Light of the Derveni Papyrus'

Enrique Hülsz, 'Heraclitus, Plato and the Philosophic Dogs'

1:30 lunch

2:30

Scott Austin, "Heraclitus, Parmenides, and the Unity of All Things"

Claire Louguet, "Sur les fragments 6 et 7 de Parménide"

3:30

N. Cordero, "Gianfrancesco d'Asola, the 'creator' of Parmenides' third way".

4:30 tea

5:00

Emese Mogyorodi, "Revelation and Reason in Parmenides"

6:00 (Free)

6:45 Fragments of Parmenides/Coxon celebration at Blackwells

8:30 IAPS Dinner/ Parmenides Publishing



Friday July 30th

8:45

Ran Baratz, "Parmenides on Human Error"

Matthew Cosgrove, "What are 'True' doxai worth to Parmenides?"

9:50

Alex Mourelatos, "'The Light of Day by Night' (nykti phaos): the Moon in Parmenides B14"

Anna Aravantinou."Elements and (Physical) Contraries in the Early Milesians and Anaxagoras"

10:45 coffee

11:15

Laura Gemelli Marciano, "Phren, Demon, and Empedocles' Teaching"

12: 20

Andrew Gregory, 'On Regimen I/10-12: A Hippocratic cosmological passage.'

1:30 lunch

2:30

Marco Antonio Santamarķa "Ananke in Parmenides, Empedocles, and the Orphic Theogonies"

Anne Gabrielle Wersinger, 'Empedocles: Nestis-Persephone and the Charites'

3:30

John Palmer, "On the varieties of necessity in Presocratic philosophy."

4:30 tea

5:00 Keynote:

Dan Graham, "Anaxagoras and the Comet"

6:00 CCC Plenary talk

7:15 reception

8:30 Conference Dinner



Saturday July 31st

9:45

Richard McKirahan, "Philolaus' extension of the concept of number."

10:45 coffee

11: 00

Robert Zaborowski, "Courage in the Presocratics' fragments"

Alberto Bernabé "Naming the form among the Presocratics (idea eidos, morphē, schēma)"

(IAPS on our own)

12:00

Miriam Peixoto, "L'homme démocritéen: esquisses d'une anthropologie."

1: 00 lunch

2:00

Rosemary Wright, "Ethics in an atomic theory"

Aryeh Finkelberg, "Aristotle on the identity of knowledge and sensation in the Presocratics."

3:00 General meeting, until 4:00 max.

6:00 Party at ST's
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