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| 2004 Conference Program |
| Friday, April 16th, 2004 |
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12:00 |
Registration
Board Room |
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1:15-1:30 |
Welcome
Nancy Tuana, Intermin Head, Department of Philosophy, Pennsylvania
State University |
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1:30-4:50 |
Session 1
| Chair: |
Daniel W. Conway, Pennsylvania State University |
Speaker: |
Rose Cherubin, George Mason University: "Altheia
and Inquiry in Parmenides" |
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Discussant: J. Kelsey Wood, College of the Holy Cross |
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James Eric Butler, Villanova University: "Effluvia:
Empedocles Studies" |
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Discussant: Matthew S. Linck, New School University |
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William H. Harwood, Pennsylvania State University: "On
Nous and the Whole: The Two Sides of Anaxagoras' Janus-faced
Physis" |
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Discussant: Jonathan J. Sanford, Franciscan
University of Steubenville |
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4:50-5:15 |
Break |
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5:15-6:30 |
Keynote Address |
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| Chair: |
Dennis J. Schmidt, Pennsylvania State University |
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Walter A. Brogan, Villanova University, "The Role of
Contradiction in Early Greek Thinking: On the Way to Aristotle's
Aporetic Philosophy" |
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| Saturday, April 17th, 2004 |
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9:00-12:20 |
Session 4
| Chair: |
Peter Warnek, University of Oregon |
1. |
Holly Moore, DePaul University: "Stasis
and the Hunt for Justice and Moderation in the City"
Discussant: Mark Schiffman, Villanova University |
2. |
Sara Brill, Pennsylvania State University: "Diagnosis
and the Divided Line: Pharmacological Concerns in Plato's
Republic""
Discussant: John Vielkind, Marshall University |
3. |
Bernard Freydberg, Slippery Rock University: "Rereading
Theaetetus 148e-10"
Discussant:
Gary Alan Scott, Loyola College, Maryland |
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12:20-1:40 |
Lunch |
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1:40-5:00 |
Session 3
| Chair: |
Robert Metcalf, University of Colorado at Denver |
1. |
P. Christopher Smith, University of Massachusetts,
Lowell: "Poetry, Socratic Dialectic, and the Desire
for the Beautiful in Plato's Symposium"
Discussant: Heidi Northwood, Nazareth
College of Rochester |
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Benjamin Grazzini, New School University: "Recognizing
Desire: The Evidence of Beauty in Plato's Phaedrus and
Euripides' Helen"
Discussant: Norman J. Fisher, Clark-Atlantic
University |
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Gary Gurtler, Boston College: "Plotinus: Matter and
Otherness"
Discussant: Ryan Drake, Pennsylvania State
University |
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5:00-5:30 |
Break |
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5:30-7:00 |
Featured Speaker (Alumni
Lounger)
| Chair: |
John Sallis, Pennsylvania State University |
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Gunter Figal, Universitaet Frieburg: "Deconstruction
and Dialectic" |
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8:00 |
Banquet at the Hummingbird
Room, Spring Mills, PA |
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| Sunday, April 18th, 2004 |
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9:30-11:40 |
Session 4
| Chair: |
Eric Sanday, Vanderbilt University |
1. |
William McNeill, DePaul University: "Apportioning
the Moment: Time and Ethos in Heidegger's 1924 Reading
of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics and Rhetoric"
Discussant: Jeffrey Powell, Marshall University |
2. |
Friederike Rese, Universität Frieburg: "On
the Meaning of Logos for Human Life and Action: A Comparative
Interpretation of Artisotle's Nicomachean Ethics Rhetoric,
and Politics"
Discussant:
Claire Katz, Pennsylvania State University |
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11:40-12:30 |
Business Meeting |
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12:30-1:40 |
Lunch |
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1:40-5:00 |
Session 5
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Christopher P. Long, Richard Stockton College |
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Franco Trivigno, Boston University: "Techno, Inspiration,
and Poetic Production in Plato's Ion"
Discussant: Henry Wang, Pennsylvania State University |
2. |
Alejandro A. Vallega, California State University, Stanislaus: "The
Lightness of Words: On the Translucence of the Philosophical
Logos in Plato's Phaedrus"
Discussant: Omar Rivera, Universitaet Freiburg |
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Marina Berzins McCoy, Boston College: "Questioning
Philosophy and Rhetoric in the Gorgias"
Discussant:
Colin A. Anderson, Hiram College |
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