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.