35th Annual Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (March 22-24)

Thursday-Saturday, March 22-24 in Waggener Hall

Celebrating 45 years of the Joint Classics and Philosophy Graduate Program in Ancient Philosophy

Thursday, March 22 in Classics Conference Room (Waggener 116) 7-9:30 pm

Emily Katz, Michigan State University

• Aristotle’s Critique of Platonist Mathematical Objects: Two Test Cases from Metaphysics M.2

Blake Hestir. Texas Christian University

• The Foundation of Plato’s Semantic Theory

Friday, March 23 in David Miller Conference Room (Waggener 316) 9:15-11:45 am 

Dhananjay Jagannathan, University of Chicago

• That Being and Oneness are the Same

Nathan Powers, University at Albany

• Plato's Cure for Atheism in Laws 10

Friday, March 23 in David Miller Conference Room (Waggener 316) 1:45-6 pm

Mark Johnstone, McMaster University

• Aristotle on Sounds

Sylvia Berryman, University of British Columbia

• Socratic Bootstrapping: Aristotle on the Sources of Normativity

Founders Address: Deborah Modrak, University of Rochester

• Why True? Thoughts and Objects in Aristotle's Semantics

Saturday, March 24 in Classics Conference Room (Waggener 116) 9:15 am-noon

Christopher Raymond, University of Texas at Austin

• Shame and Virtue in Aristotle and Alexander of Aphrodisias

Marc Gasser, Harvard University

• Autarkeia and Contemplation

Saturday, March 24 in Classics Conference Room (Waggener 116) 1:30-6 pm

 Mehmet Erginel, Eastern Mediterranean University

• Plato on the Capacity for Beliefs

Christopher Buckels, University of California – Davis

• Unstable Substrata: The Ontology of the Secret Doctrine in Plato’s Theaetetus

Peter Larsen, Trinity College Dublin

• Plato and Indirect Perception

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