Ancient Philosophy Society

The Society wants to call its members attention to the NEH Summer Seminar on Truth and Meaning in Aristotle by Mark Wheeler and Deborah Modrak. We encourage all our members to visit the website for the seminar at http://aristotle.sdsu.edu for more information.

The description reads in part:

Our seminar will be devoted to the study of Aristotle’s semantic conception of truth and falsehood, both in light of his account of how human language and thought represent the world and in relation to other conceptions of truth and falsehood from those of his predecessors to those of leading contemporary philosophers.

The seminar will be held at San Diego State University from June 21-July 16, 2010.  Sixteen successful applicants will be awarded a $3,300 stipend.  For the first time, graduate students in this field may also apply.  Application deadline is March 2, 2010.  If you have any further questions by contacting me at sarias2@earthlink.net.

The 2010 meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society will take place at Michigan State University, April 22-25.

Advance Registration

Registration—at rates for APS members and non-members—includes the option of reserving copies of the advance proceedings ($25) and places at the annual banquet ($60).  The Local Arrangements Committee urges all potential attendees to register in advance so amounts will be accurate for food and beverages, receptions, etc.  Click here to register through the Philosophy Documentation Center.

Late/On-site Registration

Increased rates (+ $10 for individuals, + $5 for students) apply for late and on-site registrations.  The conference venue will be available from 12:00 noon for on-site registration on the first day of the conference, Thursday 22 April.  After 14 April, however, copies of the proceedings ($30) and reservations for the banquet ($75) cannot be guaranteed.  For information about late availability, contact the Local Arrangements Committee.

Program Information

The 2010 APS program is set and now available!

• For easy viewing on the web, here is the official 2010 APS program.
• For a printer friendly version of the 2010 APS program, click here.

Conference Hotel & Meeting Venue

All conference sessions will take place in the Riverside Room of the Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center on the banks of the scenic Red Cedar River on the MSU campus.  For the conference rate of $90/night, single or double occupancy (+13% tax), mention the “Ancient Philosophy Society” when you phone Kellogg Center toll-free 1-800-875-5090. Rates guaranteed through March 22, 2010.

The Kellogg Center offers free wi-fi throughout, including guest rooms, free parking, and a free shuttle service by reservation (make arrangements when reserving your room).  The shuttle picks up/drops off at Lansing’s Capitol City Airport (LAN), the campus Amtrak station, and the East Lansing bus stop of the MichiganFlyer, which serves Detroit Metro Airport (DTW).

Because of a carrot and a stick, the Local Arrangements Committee urges you to make your reservations as early as possible.  The carrot: what we pay for use of the Riverside Room, $0-$500, is proportionate to the number of room-nights booked, and the more we save on the meeting room, the more we’ll have available for complementary food and beverages.  The stick: When the block of APS rooms is used up or the deadline passes, rooms revert to the undiscounted rate of $119-$189 per night.

Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center
Michigan State University
55 South Harrison Avenue
East Lansing, MI 48824-1022
phone:  (800) 875-5090 or (517) 432-4000

Travel to East Lansing and the Kellogg Hotel

By air: East Lansing is served by Lansing’s Capitol City Airport (LAN), to/from which the Kellogg Center operates a free shuttle for hotel guests; and by the Detroit Metro Airport (DTW), from which one can take the MichiganFlyer (by reservation) to its East Lansing stop, where the free Kellogg Center shuttle picks up/drops off.  Reserve the shuttle when making your hotel reservation.

By train: The East Lansing Amtrak station is located on the southwest corner of the Michigan State University campus and is served by the free Kellogg Center shuttle.  Reserve the shuttle when making your hotel reservation.

Driving directions: The Kellogg Center, 55 South Harrison Avenue, where all the sessions of the conference will be held, is located on the northwest corner of Michigan State University.  Complete directions for reaching the conference venue from all points, including links to a number of maps and more distant airports (from which one would rent a car), are available here.  Covered parking adjacent to the hotel is free for Kellogg Center guests.

Local Taxi: Green Cab, (517) 643-1905.  On the web: www.greencabcompany.net.

Digital Dialogue

Rose Cherubin of George Mason University joined APS members Jill Gordon, Sara Brill and Christopher Long for a special APS at SPEP edition of the Digital Dialogue to discuss the paper she gave entitled Parmenides, Another Way.

On the podcast, we take up once again the poem of Parmenides, but now from a perspective, as Rose suggests, that takes the dramatic and dialogical dimensions of the poem seriously.  Rose’s paper challenges traditional approaches to Parmenides that seek to identify the doctrine of Parmenides with the words spoken by the Goddess in the poem itself.  Rather, whatever teaching can be discerned in the poem must take the dramatic elements of the poem seriously.

Listen to Digital Dialogue episode 17 with Rose Cherubin, Sara Brill and Jill Gordon: Parmenides

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Thank you to everyone who submitted papers for the tenth annual independent meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society.  We were very happy to receive 79 submissions this year.  We hope to be able to accept about 20 of them for the final program.

The program committee is now hard at work reading the submissions and the Society would like to thank them for their hard work.  We take the blind review process seriously, so the members of the program committee will remain unnamed for now, but we will thank them publicly at the end of the process.

We hope to have the program set by the end of December so people have the chance make travel arrangements.

The Society would also like to thank Debra Nails and Corinne Painter in particular for the work they have done thus far to make our gathering at MSU a success.

Digital Dialogue

Long time APS member, Holly Moore, defended her dissertation on Plato’s Analogical Thought at DePaul University in October.

Dr. Moore joined Christopher Long for episode 15 of the Digital Dialogue in which she discussed her dissertation.  Holly traces the manner in which Plato uses the structure of analogies to reflect on the nature of philosophical images.

As Holly puts it in one of her comments:

So, analogy, then, is the most philosophical of images, insofar as it acts like a reflection upon the very structure of imaging and as a reflection upon philosophical reflection.

To read more about Holly’s work, visit the blog post for Digital Dialogue episode 15, where she responds to comments and questions from students in Marina McCoy course on rhetoric at Boston College.

Listen to Digital Dialogue episode 15 with Holly Moore: Plato’s Analogical Thinking

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Just a reminder to those of you attending SPEP next week, please make a point of attending the Ancient Philosophy Society panel on Thursday morning from 9am-noon.

The panel will be chaired by one of our co-directors, Matty Woodruff, Middlebury College.  The speakers will be:

Dennis Schmidt, The Pennsylvania State University,
“Telling the Truth: Homer, Plato and Heidegger”

Rose Cherubin, George Mason University,
“Parmenides: Another Way”

The panel will be held on:

Thursday, October 29, 2009, 9am to noon, in the Georgetown Salon B room at the Marriott Key Bridge Hotel in Arlington, VA.

Digital Dialogue

Sara Brill joined Christopher Long for episode 13 of the Digital Dialogue podcast in which they discuss the relationship between the Platonic conception of the soul and the political dimensions of the Phaedo, in particular.

Digital Dialogue 13 with Sara Brill: Psychology and Politics

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For more information on the Digital Dialogue, see Christopher Long’s website, the long road.

Today marks one month until the deadline for submissions to the tenth annual meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society will be held April 22-25, 2010 at the Michigan State University in East Lansing, MI.

Papers in English on any topic in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy are invited: 3,000-word maximmum to be prepared for blind review. Before sending your submission by email attachment, see the full call for papers instructions.

Submission deadline: Monday 2 November, 2009.

Decisions will be reported by the end of December.  Inquireies and submissions should be directed to:

submissions@ancientphilosophysociety.org

Digital Dialogue

Jill Gordon joined Christopher Long on episode 9 of the Digital Dialogue to discuss the erotic dimension of Socratic politics. Jill’s recent work, as many members of the Society know, focuses on the erotic dimensions of Plato’s world. Chris and Jill also focused on passages from Plato’s Phaedo to highlight courage and openness as excellences of dialogue.

Digital Dialogue 9 with Jill Gordon: Erotic Politics

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Digital Dialogue

Marina McCoy joined Christopher Long on the Digital Dialogue podcast to discuss the Protagoras and the transformative political possibilities endemic to the idea of sympathetic listening Marina outlines in her book, Plato on the Rhetoric of Philosophers and Sophists.

The Digital Dialogue podcast is part of a larger project Professor Long has undertaken to explore the possibilities social media offers philosophical scholarship.  His project, Socratic Politics in Digital Dialogue, has been awarded a summer faculty fellowship by the Pennsylvania State University’s Teaching and Learning with Technology.

The Digital Dialogue, which is available through iTunesU where you are encouraged to subscribe to receive future episodes, is produced in an attempt to thematize and cultivate the excellences associated with dialogue. It is available through iTunesU where you are encouraged to subscribe to receive future episodes.

Digital Dialogue 6 with Marina McCoy: Attentive Listening

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The Digital Dialogue podcast is produced in the spirit of the Socratic practice of politics which was committed to turning individuals in dialogue toward the question of the good, the just and the beautiful.