2014 CNY Ancient Philosophy Spring Workshop
Plato and the Stoics
Colgate University
Merrill House
May 9-10, 2014

Friday, May 9

2:30-4:15: Session I

Whitney Schwab (UMBC), “Knowledge and Understanding in Plato’s Republic”

4:30-6:15: Session II

Brooks Sommerville (Colgate), "Pleasure in Republic IX"

Saturday, May 10

10:00-11:45: Session III

Nathan Powers (Albany), “The Stoic Conflagration: A Puzzling Doctrine Revisited”

12:30-2:15: Session IV

Vanessa de Harven (UMass Amherst), “Stoic Incorporeals: A Grounded Account”

2:45-4:30: Session V (Keynote)

Tad Brennan (Cornell): “A Relative Improvement”

This event is co-sponsored by the Central New York Humanities Corridor, from an award by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Colgate University Department of Philosophy.