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The Ancient Philosophical Society

Conference Program 2002
Colorado University, Denver

 

Friday, April 19:
   
12:00-12:15

Welcome: Dean Smith & Mitchell Aboulafia, Chair of Philosophy

Chair: Gary Alan Scott, Loyola University of Maryland

“Conversing About Virtue Everyday: The Apology’s Defense of Care and Dialogue” – Francisco Gonzalez, Skidmore College

Comment by Naomi Reshotko, University of Denver

“Nussbaum, Saxonhouse and Piety in the Euthyphro”

-Martha Beck, Lyon College

Comment by Jill Gordon, Colby College   

   
3:00-5:15 Panel:
Logos
in the Nicomachean Ethics

                                   

Chair:
Martha Woodruff, Middlebury College

“Aristotle’s Pharmakon: Transformative Logos in the Nichomachean Ethics”  

- Peter Warnek, University of Oregon

“Living with Logos: Ethics as First Philosophy According to Aristotle”

- Claudia Baracchi, New School University

Comments by P. Christopher Smith, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

   
5:30-6:45 Keynote Address

“On Nature” – John Sallis, Pennsylvania State University

Moderator:
Robert Metcalf, CU – Denver

   
6:45-8:00 Reception
   
Saturday April 20
   
8:30-9:00 Continental Breakfast available in Meeting Room
   
9:00-12:00

Panel: In Dialogue with Plato

Chair:
Susan Schoenbohm, Pennsylvania State University

“Socrates in Drag: Images of Helen of Troy in Plato’s Phaedrus

- Ashley Pryor, University of Toledo

“Dancing Naked with Socrates: Pericles, Aspasia and Socrates at Play with Politics, Rhetoric and Philosophy”

- Christopher P. Long, Richard Stockton College

“The Dialectical Labyrinth, Finding Ways in the Phaedo

- Gerard Kuperus, DePaul University, Chicago

Comments by Anne-Marie Bowery, Baylor University

   
12:00-1:30 Lunch
   
1:30-3:45 Panel: Thinking Across Genre

Chair:
Katherine Loevy, Vanderbilt University                                            

“Doing Philosophy in the Theatre: The Case of Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus

- James Barrett, Colby College

“Speech and Narrative: Expositional and Philosophical Practice in Thucydides”

- Phil Hopkins, Southwestern University

Comments by Ryan Drake, Pennsylvania State University

   
4:00-6:15

Panel: Zenophilia

Chair:
Holly Moore, Villanova University

“Zeno’s Paradoxes and the Episteme of Phusis

- Rose Cherubin, George Mason University

Comment by Gina Zavota
State University of New York, Stony Brook

“The Being of Non-Being: Zeno’s First Hypothesis and Socrates’ Account of Participation in Plato’s Parmenides

- Eric Sanday, Penn State University

Comment by Marjolein Oele, Loyola University, Chicago

   
6:15-7:00 Business Meeting

   
8:00 Banquet in Hotel, Rialto Café
   
Sunday, April 21
   
8:30-9:00 Continental Breakfast in Meeting Room
   
9:00-12:00 Panel:
The Character of Plato’s Thought

Chair:
Sara Brill, Pennsylvania State University

“Platonic Agôn” – Bernard Freydberg,
Slippery Rock University

“Plato’s Protagoras: The Authority of Beginning an Education”

- Daniel Price, University of Houston

“αλήθεια, δόξα, διαλεκτική: On the Absence of Objective Being in Platonic Philosophical Method”

- Sean Kirkland, University of Wuppertal

Comments by Michael Shaw, Villanova University