CNY Ancient Philosophy Fall Workshop

Syracuse University

Tolley 304

Saturday, October 19, 2024

 

8:30 a.m.-9:30 a.m.: Breakfast in the Sainsbury Library (Tolley 300)

Session I (Keynote): 9:30 a.m.-11:05 a.m. 

Chair: Peggy Zhu (Cornell)

Introductions (5 min.) 

Suzanne Obdrzalek (Claremont McKenna): “Knowledge as Assimilation in Plato's Phaedo and Timaeus”

Session II: 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m.    

Chair: Krisanna Scheiter (Union)

Christopher Noble (Syracuse): “What’s So Good About Unity?: Plotinus on Oneness and Goodness”

1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m.: Lunch catered by Alto Cinco in the Sainsbury Library (Tolley 300)

Session III: 2:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m.          

Chair: Nathan Powers (Albany)

Rachana Kamtekar (Cornell): “Aristotle on learning by doing virtuous actions” 

 

Session IV: 4:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.: 

Chair: Kelsey Ward (Hobart and William Smith)     

Christopher Raymond (Vassar) and Christopher Moore (Penn State): “A New Protagoras: the problem of sophos and sophia”

5:45 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 2024

Soul and Cosmos in the Platonic Tradition

Colgate University

Gifford Classics Center, 112-114 Lawrence Hall

Saturday, April 13, 2024

 

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

Nathan Powers (SUNY Albany): "Aristotelian Void"

 

Session II: 11:45 a.m.-1:15 p.m.

Alessandro Peiris Pattiyage (Cornell): "Kinds of Causation in the Phaedo".

 

Lunch: 1:15-2:15 p.m.

Session III: 2:15-3:45 p.m.

Krisanna Scheiter (Union College): "Aristotle on Why Understanding is not like Perceiving"

 

Session IV: 4:00-5:30 p.m.

Jay Elliot (Bard): "Conditions of Virtuous Activity in Aristotle"

Dinner: 5:45 p.m. at Hamilton Inn

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 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.