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APS Program
Fifth Annual Independent Conference
University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon
April 14 - 16,
2005
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THURSDAY, APRIL 14,
2005
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| 8:30-9:00 |
Registration
at Gerlinger Lounge |
| 9:00-9:15 |
Welcome,
John Lysaker, Acting Chair, Department of Philosophy, University of
Oregon |
SESSION 1
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Gerlinger Lounge, Chair: Christopher Long, The Pennsylvania State University |
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9:15-11:45
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Panel: "The Triple
Goddess of Demeter: Birth, Life, and Death in Three Platonic Dialogues" |
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Jena Jolissaint,
The University of Oregon, "Sacred Doorways: Traces of the Body in Plato's Timaeus." |
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Carolyn Culbertson,
The
University of Oregon, "Waiting for the Inevitable: A reading of time and
sacrifice in the death of Socrates." |
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Melissa Shew,
The University of Oregon, "What We Owe the Dead: In praise of
Theaetetus." |
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11:45-1:15
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Lunch |
SESSION 2
Gerlinger Lounge |
Gerlinger Lounge, Chair: TBA |
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1:15-2:15
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Robert Metcalf, University of Colorado at Denver,
"Psychagogia and the Economy of Pleasures."
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SESSION 3
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Gerlinger Lounge, Chair: Garry
Gurtler, Boston College
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| 2:15-3:15 |
Emanuela Bianchi,
New School University, "Material Vicissitudes and Technical Wonders: The
Ambiguous Figure of Automaton in Aristotle's Biology of Sexual
Difference." |
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Discussant:
Eric Sanday, Vanderbilt University
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| 3:25-4:25 |
Omar Rivera, The
Pennsylvania State University, "The Comedy of Patricide (Or: A Passing Sense of
Manliness)." |
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Discussant:
Anne-Marie Bowery, Baylor University
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| 4:35-5:35
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Thomas A. Davis,
Whitman College, "Implication and Self-Inoculation at Laches 187e-I88c."
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Discussant:
Gary Gabor, Fordham University |
| 5:35-6:00 |
Break |
6:00-7:30
Gerlinger Lounge |
Featured Speaker -
Debra Nails, Michigan State University, "The Two Tragedies of Theaetetus."
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| 7:30-8:00 |
RECEPTION, MUSEUM
LOBBY |
| 8:00-9:30 |
BANQUET, Susie Papé
Reception Hall |
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FRIDAY, APRIL 15,
2005
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| SESSION 4
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Knight
Library Browsing Room, Chair:
Corinne Painter, Emporia State |
| 9:00-10:00
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Yancy Hughes Dominick,
University of Kansas, "The Role of Images in Plato's Seventh Letter."
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Discussant: Phil
Hopkins, Southwestern University |
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10:10-11:10
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Larry Hatab, Old
Dominion University, "Writing Knowledge in the Soul: Orality, Literacy, and
Plato's Critique of Poetry." |
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Discussant:
P. Christopher Smith, University of Massachusetts Lowell |
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11:20-12:20 |
Kevin O'Neill,
University of Redlands, "Philosophy and the Figurative: Phaedo, 57a-61c." |
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Discussant: J.
Walter Sterling, St. John's College Santa Fe
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| 12:20-2:00 |
Lunch |
| SESSION 5 |
Knight
Library Browsing Room,
CHAIR: John Sallis, Boston College
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| 2:00-5:00 |
Book Panel:Questioning
Platonism: Continental Interpretations of Plato
Walter Brogan, Villanova University,
Heidegger
Dennis Schmidt, The Pennsylvania State University,
Gadamer
Michael Naas, DePaul University,
Derrida
Jason Wirth, Oglethrope University,
Irigiray
Silvia Benso, Siena College,
Cavarero
Response: Drew Hyland, Trinity College
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| 5:00-5:30 |
Break |
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5:30-7:00 |
Lawrence Hall, Featured Speaker, - David Farrell Krell, DePaul
University,
“∆ιπλ’
ἐρέω,
'A Double Tale I Shall Tell...' Empedocles and Hölderlin on Tragic
Nature and Tragic Purification." |
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7:00-7:30 |
Reception |
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Saturday, April 16, 2005 |
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Session 6 |
EDUCATION 176, CHAIR: Michael Shaw, Utah Valley State College |
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9:30-10:30 |
Sean Kirkland, DePaul University, "Thinking in the
Between with Heidegger and Plato."
kirklal@depaul.edu |
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Discussant: Sara Brill, Fairfield
University
sbrill@mail.fairfield.edu |
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10:40-11:40 |
John Kress, St. John's College,
“Φρόνησις
or Σοφία?
Aristotle's Question of the
ἕξις
in Nichomachean Ethics VI (with Reference to Heidegger)." |
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Discussant: Adam Arola, University of
Oregon |
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11:50-12:50 |
Henry Wang, The Pennsylvania State University, "Mesotes,
Energeia and Aletheia - Discovering an Ariadne's Thread through Aristotle's
Moral and Natural Pilosophy." |
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Discussant: Paul Schollmeier, University of Nevada,
Las Vegas |
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12:50-2:10 |
Lunch |
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Session 7 |
EDUCTION 176, Chair: Claudia Zatta, University of Oregon |
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2:10-3:10 |
Jeremy Bell, DePaul University, "Learning Ignorance,
Pursuing Good: Education in Plato's Thought."
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Discussant: Ömer Aygün, The Pennsylvania State
University |
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3:20-4:20 |
Aaron Chait, Northwestern University, "Elenchus in
Republic 1." |
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Discussant: Alain Beauclair, University of Oregon
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4:30-5:30 |
Joe McCoy, Catholic University of America, "The Road to
the Good in the Philebus." |
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Discussant: James Wood, Boston University
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5:40-6:15 |
Business Meeting, EDUCATION 176 |
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