SAGP
Society for Ancient
Greek Philosophy
Annual Conference 2025

Plato, Aristotle, Presocratics, and Stoicism.

November 15–16, 2025 · via Zoom · All times listed in Pacific Standard Time.

About the conference

The 2025 SAGP Annual Conference brings scholars together for four thematic sessions over two days, each moderated by a senior scholar and centered on original research in Ancient Greek philosophy.

To attend via Zoom, contact apreus@binghamton.edu, indicating which event or events you wish to attend by day and time.

Conference Schedule

Saturday, November 15, 2025

Plato: Learning in the Dialogues

7:00am PST

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Moderator: Nickolas Pappas, City University of New York

  • Mitzi Lee, University of Colorado at Boulder — “Protagorean vs. Aristotelian political wisdom”
  • David Murphy, New York University — “Nostos from the Land of Zalmoxis: Socrates, Learner and Teacher”
  • Andrea Capra, Università degli Studi di Milano / Durham University — “War (Not) a ‘Violent Teacher’: Socrates and the (Mis)Teachings of Warfare”

Aristotle’s Categories

11:00am PST

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Moderator: Christopher Shields, University of California San Diego

  • Fred D. Miller, Jr., West Virginia University / Bowling Green State University — “Individuals in Aristotle’s Categories”
  • Christian Pfeiffer, University of Toronto, Scarborough — “Categories in H.2”

Sunday, November 16, 2025

Presocratic Ontology in and after Parmenides

7:00am PST

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Moderator: Shaul Tor, King’s College London

  • Matthew Evans, University of Texas at Austin — “Only now: the puzzle of Parmenides B8.5–6”
  • Gábor Betegh, University of Cambridge — “Being, the full and the rare: Parmenides, the post-Parmenideans and the concept of body”
  • Maria Michela Sassi, University of Pisa — “Ontology and epistemology of colours after Parmenides: Empedocles, Anaxagoras, Democritus”

Epistemology and Ontology in Stoicism

11:00am PST

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Moderator: Marcelo D. Boeri, Pontifical Catholic University, Chile

  • Michele Alessandrelli, CNR — “Having the impression of something: the grasp of corporeal and incorporeal entities in Stoic epistemology”
  • Christian Pineda, IIFs-UNAM — “The Stoics on Perceiving What Obtains”
  • Vanessa de Harven, University of Massachusetts Amherst — “Making an Impression: Stoic incorporeals as proper objects of thought, reference, and knowledge”

Time Zones

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