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The B Club

All meetings take place in Room 1.11 of the Faculty of Classics. The meeting starts at 5.00 p.m. Tea is served from 4.30 p.m.

29 April Prof. Daniel T. Devereux, University of Virginia “Aristotle on the Just Distribution of Political Power: Politics III 9-18”

6 May Prof. Victor Caston, University of Michigan “Stoic phantasia”

13 May Prof. Christopher Megone, University of Leeds “Aristotle’s function argument and the purpose of ethics”

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3.00 Friday 10 May in 1.11

Mr (Dr as from 11 May) Matthew Duncombe, ‘'The scandal of deduction and Aristotle's Prior Analytics II. 21’

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Thursday Seminar

Thursday evenings in Room 1.11, from 25 April. At 5.15-7.15 p.m. on 25 April and 23 May, but  6.05-8.05 p.m. on 2, 9 and 16 May (to avoid clashing with a Gray Lecture, and meetings of the Philological Society).

At our first meeting, we will finish Aristotle, De Caelo  Book II. At later meetings we will read the Dissoi Logoi.

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Graduate Seminar

Reading Epicurus, Epistle to Menoeceus, followed by either whatever we can manage of the Kuriai Doxai,  or Plato, Minos. Tuesday  mornings in 1.11, from 30 April to 21 May, 10.00 a.m.-12.00 noon. The primary participants are the Ph.D. students in ancient philosophy, but M.Phil. students are welcome to attend. Others who wish to attend should contact the convenor, Mr Nicholas Denyer <ncd1000@cam.ac.uk>.

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Mayweek Seminar, 27-31 May 2013 

Room 1.11, Faculty of Classics

POSIDONIUS

Monday 27th

1.     10.30-12.30, Myrto Hatzimichali: life and work  

2.     4.00-6.00, Alex Long: Plato and Aristotle

Tuesday 28th              

3.     10.30-12.30, Jim Hankinson: psychology                                           

4.     4.00-6.00, Robert Wardy: ethics

Wednesday 29th                                            

5.     10.30-12.30, Reviel Netz: sciences                                         

6.     4.00-6.00, David Sedley: criterion of truth                            

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7.     10.30-12.30, Victor Caston: metaphysics                                          

8.     4.00-6.00, James Warren: cosmology

Friday 31st

9.     10.30-12.30, Nick Denyer: aetiology                                      

10.  4.00-6.00, Stephen White: ‘Middle Stoicism’                          

EVENING: PARTY (WITH FOOD)    

ATTENDANCE

The seminar is open to everyone who is willing to attend a substantial number of the sessions during the week. However, anyone from outside Cambridge wishing to participate should first check with David Sedley (dns1@cam.ac.uk), in case of pressure on numbers.

  It may prove possible to circulate all or some of the text handouts in advance. To register for this, please e-mail Myrto Hatzimichali (mh303@cam.ac.uk) from the e-mail address to which you want them sent.

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'First Principles, Cause, and Explanation in Ancient Philosophy'

University of Cambridge, Faculty of Classics,

Friday 12th - Saturday 13th April, 2013

The Programme:

Friday, 12th 

10:00-13:30: Registration 

14:00-15:15: Konstantinos Kravaritis (University of Edinburgh), 'The Metaphysics of Names, Explanation, and Understanding in Plato's Cratylus' 

Response by Naoya Iwata (University of Cambridge) 

15:15-16:30: Alexandra Newton (Universitaet Leipzig), 'Zeta 17 as an Illustration of Aristotle’s Theory of Predication in the Metaphysics'

Response by Carlo Rossi (University of Cambridge)

16:30-17:00   Coffee Break

Keynote Paper 1

17:00-18:30: Jim Hankinson (University of Texas at Austin), 'Posits and Principles: the Ancients on Analysis and Explanation'

19:00-  Dinner (the venue is TBA)

Saturday, 13th

9:30-10:45: Tim Crowley (University College Dublin), 'The Matter of the Elements'

Response by Benjamin Harriman (University of Cambridge)

10:45-12:00: Andreas Lammer (Ludwig Maximilian University Munich), 'Method and Principle in the Tradition of Physics I'

 

< p>Response by Siyi Chen (University of Cambridge)

12:00-13:30   Lunch

13:30-14:45: Bryan Reece (University of Toronto), 'Diogenes of Apollonia on First Principles, Cause, and Explanation'

Response by Rhodes Pinto (University of Cambridge) 

14:45-16:00: Sukaina Hirji (Princeton University), 'Demonstration and Causation in Posterior Analytics A 4'

Response by Tamer Nawar (University of Cambridge)

16:00-16:30    Coffee Break

Keynote Paper 2

16:30-18:00: Ravi Sharma (Clark University): 'αἰτία and ὑπόθεσις in Plato's Phaedo (96-102)

If you plan to participate in any of the sessions, please fill in the form here: https://sites.google.com/site/gccamancientphil2013/registration-form

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Also, all graduate students should note that from 3.30 p.m. Friday 19 to breakfast Sunday 21 April we will be hosting a party from Paris.  Full details to be circulated separately. 

 

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