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 APS Program
Sixth Annual Independent Conference

 DePaul University
Chicago, Illinois

April 20 - 22, 2006

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 2006

8:00-10:00 Participants Arrive: Informal Reception in the Presidential Suite of the Belden-Stratford Hotel, 2300 North Lincoln Park West, (773) 281-2900

THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 2006

8:30-9:00

Registration, Munroe Hall
2312 N. Clifton Ave.

9:00-9:15
 
Welcome: Rick Lee, Chair, Department of Philosophy, DePaul Chuck Suchar, Dean of Liberal Arts & Sciences, DePaul

9:15-12:15

Plato I 
(114-116 Munroe Hall)

 

Chair: Jena Jollissant, Oglethorpe University

1. Heather Reid, Morningside College, "The Socratic Agon: Turning Philonikia toward Philadelphia in Plato's Dialogues"
Response: Gary Scott, Loyola College of Maryland

 

2. Mike Cantrell, Baylor University, "Rearming the 'Irrationalist' Potential of Belief in the Divine: Socrates, Abraham, and the Reason-Transforming Power of the Divine Encounter"
Response:  Ryan Drake, Georgia Southern University

 

3. Jussi Backman, University of Helsinki, "All of a Sudden: Heidegger and Plato's Parmenides"
Response:  Karen Gover, Bennington College

12:15-1:45 Lunch (see Restaurant Guide)

1:45-3:45
 

Aristotle I (Munroe Hall 114-116)
 


 
Chair: TBA
  1. Michael Marx Shaw, Utah Valley State College, "Teleology and Nutrition in DeAnima, B.4"
Response:  Gary Gurtler, Boston College
2. Corinne Painter, Michigan State University, "A Critical Appropriation of Aristotle's Conception of the Non-Moral Status of the Animal: On the Connection Between Action, Natural Capacity, Blameworthiness, and Morality"
Response:  Deborah Achtenberg, University of Nevada-Reno
4:30-6:00 Salvatore's Restaurant
(525 W. Arlington Place, (773) 528-1200)
Welcome: Fr. Dennis Holtschneider, President, DePaul University
  Keynote Address
Chair:  Will McNeill, DePaul University
Francisco Gonzalez, Skidmore College, "Dialogue Discontinued: Heidegger on a Few Pages of  Plato's Theaetetus:

 

6:00-8:00 Reception at Salvatore's Restaurant
8:00- Dinner (see Restaurant Guide)
7:30-8:00 RECEPTION, MUSEUM LOBBY
FRIDAY, APRIL 21 2006
9:00-12:00 Myth, Poetry, Philosophy
(Munroe Hall 114-116)
Chair: TBA
1. Thomas Thorp, Saint Xavier University, Chicago, "Odysseus Lies"
Response:  Omar Rivera, University of Wisconsin at Lacrosse
2. Sara Brill, Fairfield University, "Four Seals, Three Fingers, Two Non-Beings: On the Persistence of the Corporeal in Homer, Plato, and Aristotle"
Response: Emanuela Bianchi, New School University
3. Ryan McBride, St. Norbert College, "A Theogony for the Intellect: On the Status of the Likely Story in Plato's Timaeus"
Response:  TBA
12:20-1:30 Lunch (see Restaurant Guide)**
1:30-3:30 Aristotle II
(Munroe Hall 114-116)
  Chair: David Krell, DePaul University
1. P. Christopher Smith, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, "Virgil's Destruktion of the Stoic Rational Agent: Rereading Aeneid IV after Nietzsche and Heidegger"
Response: Heidi Northwood, Nazareth College
2. Hans-Helmuth Gander, Universität Freiburg, "The Stoicism of Marcus Aurelius's TA EIS EAUTON"
Response: Peter Warnek, University of Oregon, Eugene
6:00-7:00

 

Translation Panel
(DePaul Center 220)
  Chair: John Sallis, Boston College
Aryeh Kosman, Haverford College
Rob Metcalf, University of Colorado at Denver
Martha Woodruff, Middlebury College
   
Saturday, April 22, 2006
9:30-12:30 Plato II
(Faculty Lounge, Roosevelt University, 430 S. Michigan Ave)
  Chair: Jill Gordon, Colby College
1. John Rose, Goucher College, "Plato by Ear: Musical Harmony in Plato's Symposium"
Response: Elizabeth Hoppe, Lewis University
2. Eric Sanday, Marquette University, "Philosophy as the Practice of Active Inheritance: Book II of Plato's Republic"
Response: Greg Recco, Skidmore College
3. Bernard Freydberg, Slippery Rock University, "Concerning the Regulation of Eros: A Serious Philological/Philosiphical Inquiry"
Response:  Colin Anderson, Hiram College
12:30-1:30 Lunch (Box Lunches Provided by DePaul University)
1:30-2:00 Business Meeting (Faculty Lounge, Roosevelt University)
2:00-4:00 Book Panel: C. Long, The Ethics of Ontology (SUNY Press, 2004)
Chair: Larry Hatab, Old Dominion University
Walter Brogan, Villanova University
Claudia Barrachi, New School University
Dennis Schmidt, The Pennsylvania State University
Response:  Christopher Long Pennsylvania State University
4:45-6:15 Keynote Address
Chair: Drew Hyland, Trinity College
Adrian Cavarero, University of Verona, "Arendt Interprets Plato"
7:00-10:00 Annual APS Banquet
The Partheon, 314 S. Halstead St.
(312) 726-2407
**APS Executive Committee will meet for lunch at "Gracie's." 1119 West Webster Ave (773) 528-1788