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.