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APS Program
Fourth Annual Independent Conference
Pennsylvania State
University
University Park, PA
April 16-18, 2004
(All
sessions take place in The Nittany Lion Inn, Boardroom, except Saturday at 5:30
p.m. in Alumni Lounge) |
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FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 2004 |
| 12:00 |
Registration
(Board Room) |
| 1:15-1:30 |
Welcome:
Mitchell Aboulafia, Head, Department of Philosophy, Pennsylvania University |
| SESSION 1 |
Chair:
Daniel W. Conway, Pennsylvania State University |
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1:30-2:30 |
Rose Cherubin, George Mason University: "Altheia and Inquiry in
Parmenides" |
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Discussant:
J. Kelsey Wood, College of the Holy Cross |
| 2:40-3:40 |
James Eric
Butler, Villanova University: "Effluvia: Empedocles Studies" |
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Discussant:
Matthew S. Linck, New School University |
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3:50-4:50 |
William H.
Harwood, Pennsylvania State University: "On Nous and the Whole: The Two
Sides of Anaxagoras' Janus-faced Physis" |
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Discussant:
Jonathan J. Sanford, Franciscan University of Steubenville |
| 4:50-5:15 |
Break |
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KEYNOTE ADDRESS |
| 5:15-6:30 |
Chair:
Dennis J. Schmidt, Pennsylvania State University |
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Speaker:
Walter A. Brogan, Villanova University, "The Role of Contradiction in Early
Greek Thinking: On the Way to Aristotle's Aporetic Philosophy" |
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Saturday, April 17, 2004 |
| SESSION 2 |
Chair: Peter
Warnek, University of Oregon |
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9:00-10:00 |
Holly Moore,
DePaul University: "Stasis and the Hunt for Justice and Moderation in the City" |
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Discussant:
Mark Schiffman, Villanova University |
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10:10-11:10 |
Sara Brill,
Pennsylvania State University: "Diagnosis and the Divided Line: Pharmacological
Concerns in Plato's Republic" |
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Discussant:
John Vielkind, Marshall University |
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11:20-12:20 |
Bernard
Freydberg, Slippery Rock University: "Rereading Theaetetus
148e-10" |
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Discussant:
Gary Alan Scott, Loyola College, Maryland |
| 12:20-1:40 |
Lunch |
| SESSION 3 |
Chair:
Robert Metcalf, University of Colorado at Denver |
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1:40-2:40 |
P. Christopher
Smith, University of Massachusetts, Lowell: "Poetry, Socratic Dialectic,
and the Desire for the Beautiful in Plato's Symposium" |
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Discussant:
Heidi Northwood, Nazareth College of Rochester |
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2:50-3:50 |
Benjamin
Grazzini, New School University: "Recognizing Desire: The Evidence of
Beauty in Plato's Phaedrus and Euripides' Helen" |
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Discussant:
Norman J. Fisher, Clark-Atlantic University |
| 4:00-5:00 |
Gary Gurtler,
Boston College: "Plotinus: Matter and Otherness" |
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Discussant:
Ryan Drake, Pennsylvania State University |
| 5:00-5:30 |
Break |
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KEYNOTE ADDRESS (Alumni Lounge) |
| 5:30-7:00 |
Chair: John
Sallis, Pennsylvania State University |
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Speaker:
Gŋnter Figal,
Universit@t
Frieburg: "Deconstruction and Dialectic" |
| BANQUET |
(Advance reservation
required) |
| 7:15 |
Bus Leaves from
Nittany Lion Inn |
| 8:00 |
Banquet at the
Hummingbird Room, Spring Hills, PA |
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SUNDAY, APRIL 18, 2004 |
| SESSION 4 |
Chair: Eric
Sanday, Vanderbilt University |
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9:30-10:30 |
William McNeill,
DePaul University: "Apportioning the Moment: Time and Ethos in Heidegger's 1924
Reading of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics and Rhetoric" |
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Discussant:
Jeffrey Powell, Marshall University |
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10:40-11:40 |
Friederike Rese,
Universit@t
Frieburg: "On the Meaning of Logos for Human Life and Action: A Comparative
Interpretation of Artisotle's Nicomachean Ethics Rhetoric, and
Politics" |
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Discussant:
Claire Katz, Pennsylvania State University |
| 11:40-12:30 |
BUSINESS MEETING |
| 12:30-1:40 |
Lunch |
| SESSION 5 |
Chair:
Christopher Long, Richard Stockton College |
| 1:40-2:40 |
Franco Trivigno, Boston
University: "Techno, Inspiration, and Poetic Production in Plato's Ion" |
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Discussant:
Henry Wang, Pennsylvania State University |
| 2:50-3:50 |
Alejandro A. Vallega,
California State University, Stanislaus: "The Lightness of Words: On the
Translucence of the Philosophical Logos in Plato's Phaedrus" |
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Discussant: Omar Rivera,
Universit@t
Frieburg: |
| 4:00-5:00 |
Marina Berzins McCoy,
Boston College: "Questioning Philosophy and Rhetoric in the Gorgias" |
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Discussant:
Colin A. Anderson, Hiram College |
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