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.