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.