Annual Conference 2024

November 16-17, 2024  |  *via Zoom

*Contact apreus@binghamton.edu to attend via Zoom, indicating which event(s) by day and time.
All times listed are Pacific Standard Time (US). Time zone conversion charts are included at the end for your convenience. 

Panel on the Pre-Socratics | Saturday, November 16 at 7am Pacific Standard Time (US) 
Moderator: Daniel W. Graham (Brigham Young University, Emeritus)
Topic: Rethinking the Presocratic Philosophers
Panelists:
   - Alexander P. D. Mourelatos (The University of Texas at Austin), “Xenophanes of Colophon: Iconoclast in Religion, Ionian
         Physicalist, and Dualist in Cosmology”
   - Daniel W. Graham (Brigham Young University, Emeritus), “The Eleatic Revolution in Philosophy and Science”
   - Richard D. McKirahan (Pomona College), “Introducing Philolaus”

Panel on Socrates and Plato | Saturday, November 16 at 11am Pacific Standard Time (US) 
Moderator: James Warren (University of Cambridge)
Topic: Plato on the non-ideal
Panelists:
   - Mariana Beatriz Noé (Harvard University), “Plato’s Metaphors as Toy, Scale, and Idealized Models”
   - Dimitri El-Murr (École Normale Supérieure), “Imperfect (forms of) Friendships in Plato”
   - Patricia Marechal (University of California, San Diego), “Lack of Motivation to Inquire”
   - Jessica Moss (New York University), “Plato’s Pistis”

Panel on Aristotle | Sunday, November 17 at 7am Pacific Standard Time (US) 
Moderator: Christof Rapp (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Topic: Principles of Substance in Aristotle’s Metaphysics
Panelists:
   - Christof Rapp (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), “Introduction: Principles of Substance”
   - Emily Katz (Michigan State University), “Why Aristotle Rejects Mathematical Principles?”
   - Samuel Meister (University of Geneva), “Aristotle’s Search for Principles in Metaphysics Lambda”
   - Christian Pfeiffer (University of Toronto), “Being and its Causes in the Middle Books of the Metaphysics”

Panel on Post-Aristotelian Philosophy | Sunday, November 17 11am Pacific Standard Time (US)
Moderator: Ricardo Salles (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
Topic: Stoic Ontology
Panelists:
   - David Sedley (University of Cambridge), “The Timaeus and Stoic Ontology”
   - Marion Durand (University of Oxford), “Making Sense of Stoic Fictional Entities”
   - Susanne Bobzien (University of Oxford), “Some Notes on the Ontology of Stoic Propositions”