CNY Ancient Philosophy Working Group Fall 2023

Syracuse University

Tolley 304

Saturday, September 23, 2023

 

9:00 a.m.-9:30 a.m.: Coffee and Intros

 

Session I: 9:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m.       

Jacob Klein (Colgate): “The Stoic Theory of Motivation” 

 

Session II: 11:20 a.m.-12:50 p.m.    

Emily Katz (Michigan State): “Why Aristotle Can't Do without Intelligible Matter”

 

12:50 p.m.-2:20 p.m.: Lunch at Sitrus at the Sheraton University (801 University Ave)

 

Session III: 2:20 p.m.-3:50 p.m.:          

Sara De Leonardis (Cornell): “Sightlovers (Rep. 476e–480a): a case of self-deception”

 

Session IV: 4:10 p.m.-5:40 p.m.:          

Christopher Raymond (Vassar): “Greeks and Barbarians in Republic 5”

 

6:15 p.m.: Dinner at Phoebe's Restaurant (900 E Genesee St)

 

This event is sponsored by the Central New York Humanities Corridor, from an award by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

 

CNY Ancient Philosophy Working Group Spring 2023

Cornell University

Saturday, April 22, 2023

Physical Sciences Building 401 

8:30 a.m.-9:00 a.m.: Coffee and Intros

Session I: 9:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.         

Weiting Huang (Syracuse), “‘A Cause Obscure to Human Reasoning’: A Metaphysical Account of Stoic Chance ” 

Session II: 11:00 a.m.-12:45 p.m.      

Charles Brittain (Cornell): “Models for Deliberation in Cicero’s De Officiis”

12:45 p.m.-2:00 p.m.: Lunch

Session III: 2:00 p.m.-3:45pm:            

Emily Kress (Brown): “The Housekeeper’s Priorities: The Structure of Aristotle’s GA 2.6”

Session IV: 4:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.:           

Justin Clark (Hamilton): “Socrates’s Disavowal and the ‘What is F-ness?’ Question”

6:30 p.m.: Dinner

Participants: Tad Brennan (Cornell), Charles Brittain (Cornell), Justin Clark (Hamilton), Sara De Leonardis (Cornell), Ethan Della Rocca (Cornell), Jay Elliott (Bard), Weiting Huang (Syracuse), Emily Kress (Brown), Vikram Kumar (Cornell), Chris Noble (Syracuse), Alessandro Peiris Pattiyage (Cornell), Claudia Wang (Cornell), Kelsey Ward (Hobart & William Smith), Peggy Zhou (Cornell)

This event is sponsored by the Central New York Humanities Corridor, from an award by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

 

CNY Ancient Philosophy Working Group Spring 2022

Union College

Saturday, May 7, 2021

9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

 

9:00 am: Breakfast in Everest Lounge

 

Session I: 9:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m.         

Krisanna Scheiter (Union College), “Aristotle on Knowledge of Indivisibles” 

 

Session II: 11:15 a.m.-12:45 p.m.      

Christopher Noble (Syracuse): “All that Heaven Allows: Boethius on Divine Foreknowledge, Contingency, and Free Choice”

 

12:45 p.m.-2:15pm: Lunch

 

Session III: 2:15 pm-3:45pm:            

Peggy Zhu (Cornell): “Learning by Induction in the Symposium”

 

Session IV: 4:00 pm-5:30 pm:           

Tushar Irani (Wesleyan University): “Fulfilling the Children’s Wish: Plato’s Account of Being in the Sophist as a Theory of Predication”

 

6:00 p.m.: Dinner

This event is sponsored by the Central New York Humanities Corridor, from an award by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

2021 CNY Corridor Fall Workshop 

Action (Animal, Human, and Divine) in Aristotle and the Stoics

Saturday, November 6, 2021 over Zoom

10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

 

Session I: 10:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m.       

Jay Elliott (Bard): “Aristotle on the Voluntary in Other Animals”

Chair: Christopher Noble (Syracuse)

Session II: 12:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m.          

Jozef Muller (UC Riverside): “Voluntariness, Action, and Decision in the Magna Moralia”

Chair: Justin Clark (Hamilton) 

 

Session III: 2:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m.                    

Rachana Kamtekar (Cornell): “Feelings of Necessity: Compulsion in Aristotle’s Ethics”

Chair: Christopher Raymond (Vassar) 

 

Session IV: 4:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m.        

Nathan Powers (SUNY Albany): “I’ll stop the world and melt with you: Dio of Prusa on the Stoic Conflagration”

Chair: Krisanna Scheiter (Union)

Participants: Toni Alimi (Cornell), Justin Clark (Hamilton), Bobbi Cohn (Cornell), Sara De Leonardis (Cornell), Mateo Duque (SUNY Binghamton), Jay Elliott (Bard), Kat Furtado (Toronto), Mark Gatten (Toronto), Weiting Huang (Syracuse), Rachana Kamtekar (Cornell), Vikram Kumar (Cornell), Duane Long (SUNY Buffalo), Jozef Muller (UC Riverside), Christopher Noble (Syracuse), Alessandro Peiris Pattiyage (Cornell), Nathan Powers (SUNY Albany), Christopher Raymond (Vassar), Krisanna Scheiter (Union), Naly Thaler (Hebrew Univesity), Claudia Wang (Cornell), Zhiruo Wang (UT Austin)

This event is sponsored by the Central New York Humanities Corridor, from an award by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

 

2019 CNY Corridor Fall Workshop

Plato and the Stoics on Thought and Action

Colgate University

Benton Hall, Room 203

Saturday, September 14, 2019

11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

 

11:00 a.m.        Rachana Kamtekar (Cornell): “Plato on Intelligent Agents”

1:30 p.m.          Rachel Singpurwalla (U of Maryland): “Law in Plato’s Political Thought”

3:30 p.m.          Whitney Schwab (U of Maryland, Baltimore County): “Non-Perceptual Kataleptic Impressions in Stoicism”

 

This event is sponsored by the Central New York Humanities Corridor, from an award by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

2019 CNY Ancient Philosophy Spring Workshop

Plato and Aristotle on Happy Lives and Deaths

Syracuse University

Tolley Humanities Building, Room 304

Saturday, April 27, 2019

10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

10:00 – 11:45 Session I

Christopher Raymond (Vassar), “The Digression in the Theaetetus and Pindar’s Nemean 10”

Chair: Krisanna Scheiter (Union)

1:00 – 2:45: Session II

Emily Austin (Wake Forest),  “Aristotle on the Benefits of Death”

Chair: Jay Elliott (Bard)

3:15 – 5:00: Session III

Mark Brennan (UAlbany), “Justice and the Preservation of Friendship in Nicomachean Ethics VIII.13-IX.3”

Chair: Corinne Gartner (Wellesley)

Participants: 

Emily Austin (Wake Forest), Mark Brennan (UAlbany), Tad Brennan (Cornell), Charles Brittain (Cornell), Barbara Cohn (Cornell), Jay Elliott (Bard), Corinne Gartner (Wellesley), Weiting Huang (Syracuse), Rachana Kamtekar (Cornell), Jacob Klein (Colgate), Christopher Noble (Syracuse), Nathan Powers (UAlbany), John Proios (Cornell), Christopher Raymond (Vassar), Krisanna Scheiter (Union), Eric Solis (Cornell), Brianna Zgurich (Cornell), Peggy Zhu (Cornell)

This event is sponsored by the Central New York Humanities Corridor, from an award by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Workshop on Friendship in Nicomachean Ethics VIII.1-7

Union College

October 19-20, 2018

Participants:

Adam Beresford (UMass-Boston), Pierre Destrée (ULouvain), Panos Dimas (Oslo), Corinne Gartner (Wellesley), Paula Gottlieb (UW-Madison), Alberto Ross Hernández (UP, Mexico City), Jakub Jirsa (CharlesU, Prague), Brad Kim (Oxford), Hendrik Lorenz (Princeton), Patricia Marechal (Northwestern), Brennan McDavid (Chapman), Susan Sauvé Meyer (UPenn), Allison Murphy (Carleton), Christopher Noble (Syracuse), Michael Pakaluk (CUA), Krisanna Scheiter (Union), Franco Trivigno (Oslo)

Presented by Union College Dean of Academic Departments and Programs and the Department of Philosophy. Co-sponsored by the Central New York Humanities Corridor from an award by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.