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The Ancient Philosophical Society

Conference Program 2001
Villanova University

 

Friday, April 6
 
12:00-1:00  

Lunch and registration

   
1:00-3:15 

Speaker                      
Christopher Long, Stockton College

The Ethical Culmination of Aristotle’s Metaphysics

Speaker                     
Martha Woodruff, Middlebury College

Pathos and Phronesis: Aristotle’s Legacy

Commentator             
Ashley Pryor, University of Toledo

Moderator                 
John Mulhern, University of Pennsylvania

   
3:30-5:30    

Plenary Session

Speaker                     
Remi Brague, University Paris, Sorbonne

History of Philosophy as Freedom

Moderator                 
Alejandro Vallegra 

   
5:30-6:30  

Reception

   
7:00  

Dinner

 
Saturday April 17, 2001
   
8:00-9:00  Breakfast
   
9:00-10:45

Speaker                     
Jill Gordon, Colby College

Putting Schleiermacher to Rest: Alcibiades I and Philosophical Seduction

Speaker                     
Robert Metcalf, Univ. of Colorado Denver

The Ad Hominem Logic of Socratic Elenchos

Commentator            
Bernard Freydberg, Slippery Rock

University of Pennsylvania

Moderator                  
Laurel Madison, Loyola U. of Chicago

   
11:00-12:15

Speaker                      
David Roochnik, Boston University

The Role of Stories in Platonic Psychology: Republic 8&9

Commentator            
Scott Hemmenway, Eureka College

Moderator                 
Phil Hopkins, Southwestern University

   
12:12-1:45 Lunch
   
1:45-3:00

Speaker                     
Christopher Smith, University of Massachusetts at Lowell

Plato’s Khora as a Linguistic Index of Groundlessness

Commentator            
Rita Alfonso, SUNY at Stony Brook

Moderator                 
Sean Kirkland, SUNY at Stony Brook

   
3:15-5:15

Speaker                     
Trish Glazebrook, Syracuse University

Is Achilles Still Running?

Commentator            
Gary Scott, St. Peter’s College

Speaker                     
Edward Moore, New York University

Salvation and the Human Ideal: Plato, Plotinuus, Origen

Commentator            
Daniel Price, University of Houston

Moderator                 
Friederike Rese, Universität Tübingen

   
5:30   Business Meeting
   
7:00   Chinatown Banquet
   
Sunday April 8, 2001
   
8:00-9:00 Breakfast
   
9:00-10:30

Speaker                     
Charles Kahn, Univ. of Pennsylvania

Plato on the Good

Moderator                 
Michael Shaw, Villanova University

   
10:45-12:30

Speaker                     
Amy Morgenstern University of Dayton

The Quiet Revolution in the Sophist Refutation of Eleatic Monism

Speaker                     
Mark Brouwer, Duquesne University

The Philosophical Use of Appearance in Plato’s Sophist

Commentator            
Matthew Linck, New School of Social Research

Moderator                 
John Russon, Pennsylvania State Univ.