Workshop on Virtue and Emotion in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics IV.5-9

Union College

October 16-17, 2015

Participants:

Adam Beresford (UMass-Boston), Tad Brennan (Cornell), Tommaso Gazzarri (Union), Paula Gottlieb (UW-Madison), Jakub Jirsa (Charles U-Prague), Monte Johnson (UC-San Diego), Jacob Klein (Colgate), Stephen Leighton (Queen’s), Thornton Lockwood, (Quinnipiac), Hendrik Lorenz (Princeton), Susan Sauvé Meyer (UPenn), Deborah Modrak (Rochester), Jessica Moss (NYU), Christiana Olfert (Tufts), Michael Pakaluk (Ave Maria), Nathan Powers (UAlbany), Christof Rapp (Munich), Krisanna Scheiter (Union), Matt Walker (Yale-NUS)

Presented by Union College Dean of Academic Departments and Programs and the Department of Philosophy. Co-sponsored by the Central New York Humanities Corridor from an award by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

2014 CNY Ancient Philosophy Spring Workshop
Plato and the Stoics
Colgate University
Merrill House
May 9-10, 2014

Friday, May 9

2:30-4:15: Session I

Whitney Schwab (UMBC), “Knowledge and Understanding in Plato’s Republic”

4:30-6:15: Session II

Brooks Sommerville (Colgate), "Pleasure in Republic IX"

Saturday, May 10

10:00-11:45: Session III

Nathan Powers (Albany), “The Stoic Conflagration: A Puzzling Doctrine Revisited”

12:30-2:15: Session IV

Vanessa de Harven (UMass Amherst), “Stoic Incorporeals: A Grounded Account”

2:45-4:30: Session V (Keynote)

Tad Brennan (Cornell): “A Relative Improvement”

This event is co-sponsored by the Central New York Humanities Corridor, from an award by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Colgate University Department of Philosophy.

 2013 CNY Ancient Philosophy Fall Workshop

 The Power and Objects of Knowledge

Syracuse University

Tolley Humanities Building, Room 304

October 26, 2013

10:30-11:00: Coffee in Tolley Library (on 3^rd floor)

11:00-12:45: Session I

Deborah Modrak (Rochester): "Thoughts and Objects in Aristotelian Semantics"

12:45-2:00: Lunch

2:00-3:45: Session II

Kristin Reglitz (Arizona): "Stoic Total Blending: Infinite Division and Anaxagoras"

4:00-5:45: Session III

Krisanna Scheiter (Union): "Rethinking Nous Poietikos in De Anima 3.5"

7:00: Dinner for Workshop Participants

This event is co-sponsored by the Central New York Humanities Corridor, from an award by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the SU Humanities Center (in the College of Arts and Sciences), and the Syracuse University Department of Philosophy.

CNY Ancient Philosophy Inaugural Workshop

Virtue, Intelligence, and Life

Syracuse University

Tolley Humanities Building, Room 304

August 9, 2013

9:30-10:00: Coffee in Tolley Library (on 3^rd floor)

10:00-10:15: Introduction

10:15-11:45: Session I

Jessica Gelber (Syracuse University), “Females, Teleology, and Mistakes”

12:00-1:30: Session II

Jacob Klein (Colgate University), “What is Stoic Selection?”

1:30-2:45: Lunch

2:45-4:15: Session III

Scott Senn (Longwood University), “The 'Irony' of Plato's Socrates: A Look Beyond Avowals and Disavowals of Wisdom”

4:30-6:00: Session IV

Nat Stein (Florida State University), “Explanation and Hypothetical Necessity”

7:00: Dinner for Workshop Participants

This event is co-sponsored by the Central New York Humanities Corridor, from an award by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the SU Humanities Center (in the College of Arts and Sciences), and the Syracuse University Department of Philosophy.