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Inaugural Conference
The International Association for Presocratic Studies
Theme: Ionian Philosophy and Science

Program



Monday, June 23: B192 Joseph F. Smith Building (JFSB)

09:45am Welcome

10:00am–10:45am Science
Chair: David Grandy

Daniel W. Graham: "Advances in Early Greek Astronomy"

11:00am–11:45pm Chronology
Chair: Ryan Christensen

Apostolos Pierris: "The Logical Order of Presocratic Chronology"

2:00pm–4:30pm Thales
Chair: Eric Hutton

Serge Mouraviev: "A New Look at Thales"
Livio Rossetti: "Thales, Anaximander and the Architects"
Andreas Schwab: "The 'new' Thales of Miletus: Towards a History of the Representation/s of the Figure and his Ideas."




Tuesday, June 24: Hinckley Center

10:00am–11:30am Heraclitus
Chair: Enrique Hülsz

Francesc Casadesús: "Why Was a Delian Diver Required to Understand Heraclitus? D.L. 2.22 and 9.12"
Lucia Saudelli: "I 'cadaveri' di Eraclito (fr. 96 DK) e la polemica pagana di Simplicio"

2:00pm–4:30pm Pythagoreans
Chair: Kirk Fitzpatrick

Carl Huffman: "Did Pythagoras Develop an Ionian Style Cosmology?"
Richard McKirahan: "The Metaphysics of Philolaus"
Gabriele Cornelli: "Philolaus' Epistemology: The Method of Archai Between Ionian and Eleatic Philosophy"

4:45pm–5:30pm The Milesians Chair: Kirk Fitzpatrick

Aryeh Finkelberg: "Milesian Ideas of God, Soul, and the World"

8:00pm–9:30pm Keynote address

David Runia: "Aëtiana Diaeretica: Observations on the Use of the Diaeresis in the Placita"




Wednesday, June 25: Summerhays Cabin, Brickerhaven, Provo Canyon

10:00am–11:30am The Sophists
Chair: James Siebach

Provo Canyon
Maria Cecília Coelho de Miranda M.N.: "Gorgias' On Not-Being: Rhetoric and Logic"
Marco Antonio Santamaria: "Nuevas doctrinas para un polis en crisis: órficos y sofistas en la Atenas de Sócrates y Platón"

11:45am–1:00pm Symposium on Alexander P. D. Mourelatos, The Route of Parmenides, 2nd edition
Chair: Daniel Peterson
Presenter: Emese Mogyorodi
Commentators: Richard McKirahan, Patricia Curd
Response: Alexander Mourelatos

Afternoon Hiking and sightseeing

7:00pm Business Meeting




Thursday, June 26: B192 JFSB

10:00am–11:30am Parmenides
Chair: Matthew Cosgrove

Patricia Curd: "Parmenides on Thought"
Herbert Granger: "Parmenides on Being and Thought"

2:00pm–5:15pm Parmenides on Doxa
Chair: Travis Anderson

Alberto Bernabé: "Uses of Negative Adjectives by Presocratic Philosophers"
Scott Austin: "Is There Appearance? The Problem of Parmenidean Doxa"
Nestor-Luís Cordero: "Deconstruction of Parmenidean Doxa"
Beatriz Bossi: "On the Epistemological Interpretation of Parmenides DK B16."

7:30pm Presentation on multi-spectral imaging and Herculaneum Papyri
Chair: James Faulconer

Stephen Bay and Gene Ware: "Multi-spectral imaging"
Apostolos Pierris: "Heraclitus and the Derveni Papyrus: Column iv Reconstituted on the Evidence of Multispectral Imaging."




Friday, June 27: Hinckley Center

10:00am–11:30am The Pluralists
Chair: Michael Arts

John E. Sisko: "On the Question of Homoeomerity in Anaxagorean Physics"
Simon Trépanier: "Empedocles and His Demons"

2:00pm–2:30pm The Pluralists
Chair: Wilfred Griggs

Miriam Peixoto: "Sur le concevoir et le percevoir: à propos de fragment 68 A 105 DK."
T. M. Robinson: "'Cognitive Achievement' in Parmenides, with Digressions to Aristotle and Others."

3:45pm–4:30pm Eleatic Questions
Chair: Wilfred Griggs

Omar Álvarez: "The 'Anonymous' Mocker of Parmenides and Zeno's Eleatic Orthodoxy"




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