Annual Conference 2024

Pre-Socratics, Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics.

November 16–17, 2024 · via Zoom · All times listed in Pacific Standard Time.

About the conference

The 2024 Annual Conference explored four major areas of Ancient Greek philosophy through themed panel discussions bringing together scholars from universities around the world.

To attend via Zoom, contact apreus@binghamton.edu, indicating which session or sessions you wish to attend.

Conference Schedule

Saturday, November 16, 2024

Panel on the Pre-Socratics

7:00am PST

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Theme:
Rethinking the Presocratic Philosophers

Moderator: Daniel W. Graham, Brigham Young University (Emeritus)

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 — “The Eleatic Revolution in Philosophy and Science”
Richard D. McKirahan, Pomona College — “Introducing Philolaus”

Panel on Socrates and Plato

11:00am PST

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Theme:
Plato on the Non-Ideal

Moderator: James Warren, University of Cambridge

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”

Sunday, November 17, 2024

Panel on Aristotle

7:00am PST

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Theme:
Principles of Substance in Aristotle's Metaphysics

Moderator: Christof Rapp, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Christof Rapp — “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

11:00am PST

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Theme:
Stoic Ontology

Moderator: Ricardo Salles, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

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”

Time Zones

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