2001 Conference Program

Villanova University - Philadelphia, PA - April 6-8

Friday, April 6th, 2001
  12:00-12:15 Lunch and Registration
  1:00-3:15
Chair: John Mulhern, University of Pennsylvania
Speaker:
 Christopher P. Long, Richard Stockton College: “The Ethical Culmination of Aristotle's Metaphysics”
Speaker: Martha Woodruff, Middlebury College:"Pathos and Phronesis: Aristotle’s Legacy
  Discussant:Ashley Prior, University of Toledo
  5:30-6:30 Keynote Address
   
Chair: Alejandro Vallegra
Speaker: Remi Brague, University of Paris, Sorbonne, "History of Philosophy as Freedom"
  7:00 Reception
 
Saturday, April 7th, 2001
  9:00-10:45
Chair: Laurel Madison, Loyola U. of Chicago
Speaker

Jill Gordon, Colby College: “Putting Schleiermacher to Rest: Alcibiades I and Philosophical Seduction”
Speaker

Robert Metcalf, Univ. of Colorado Denver: “The Ad Hominem Logic of Socratic Elenchos”
Discussant: Bernard Freydberg, Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania
  11:00-12:15
Chair: Phil Hopkins, Southwestern University
Speaker

David Roochnik, Boston University: " The Role of Stories in Platonic Psychology: Republic 8&9"
Discussant:Scott Hemmenway, Eureka College
  12:15-1:45 Lunch
  1:30-3:00
Chair: Sean Kirkland, SUNY at Stony Brook
Speaker

Christopher Smith, University of Massachusetts at Lowell: "Plato’s Khora as a Linguistic Index of Groundlessness”
Discussant: Rita Alfonso, SUNY at Stony Brook
  3:15-5:15
Chair: Friederike Rese, Universität Tübingen
Speaker

Trish Glazebrook, Syracuse University: "Is Achilles Still Running?"
Discussant:Gary Scott, St. Peter’s College
Speaker

Edward Moore, New York University: "Salvation and the Human Ideal: Plato, Plotinuus, Origen"
Discussant: Daniel Price, University of Houston
  5:30-6:30 Business Meeting
  7:00 Banquet in Chinatown
 
Sunday, April 8th, 2001
  9:00-10:30
Chair: Michael Shaw, Villanova University
Speaker
 Charles Kahn, Univ. of Pennsylvania Plato on the Good
  10:45-12:30
Chair: John Russon, Pennsylvania State Univ.
Speaker Amy Morgenstern University of Dayton: "The Quiet Revolution in the Sophist Refutation of Eleatic Monism"
Speaker

Mark Brouwer, Duquesne University: "The Philosophical Use of Appearance in Plato’s Sophist"
Discussant Matthew Linck, New School for Social Research