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This year SPEP celebrates its 50th anniversary in Philadelphia.  The conference will begin on Wednesday, October 19th rather than on its usual Thursday in order to accommodate an extended program.

As a result, the Ancient Philosophy Society meeting at SPEP this year will be held from 3pm to 6pm on Wednesday, October 19th at the Sheraton Society Hill.

Speakers this year will be:

Jill Gordon
Charles Dana Professor of Philosophy at Colby College
“Eros and Nostos in the Phaedo”

Walter Brogan
Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University
“Pathos and Logos: The Place of Virtue and Affect in Aristotle’s Ontology of Human Being”