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Penn Ancient Workshop

Saturday, April 18, 2015 - 9:00am

Cohen 392

PENN ANCIENT WORKSHOP

April 18, 2015

University of Pennsylvania, Cohen Hall 392

 

For more information, please contact janro@sas.upenn.edu.

 

SESSION 1 (9:00 am to 10:40 am)

 

Anna Marmodoro (Oxford University), “Anaxagoras’s Qualitative Gunk”

 

Dana Miller (Fordham University), “Anaxagoras’ Nous: a non-agent interpretation”

 

William Harwood (University of Texas-Pan American), “Motion Without Cause: perichoresis in the Fragments of Anaxagoras”

 

 

SESSION 2 (10:55 am to 12:00 pm)

 

Michael Shaw (Utah Valley University), “Compacted Worlds and Constructed Cities in Anaxagoras Fragment B4a”

 

Thomas Vozar (University of Pennsylvania), “Anaxagoras on the Human Hand”

 

 

SESSION 3 (1:30 pm to 2:35 pm)

 

Daniel Graham (Brigham Young University), “Anaxagoras and the New Empiricism”

 

Holly Moore (Luther College), “‘Not with an Ax’: Using Feminist Theory to Clarify Anaxagoras’ Ontological Pluralism”

 

 

SESSION 4 (2:40 pm to 3:45 pm)

 

Rose Cherubin (George Mason University), “Parmenides, Zeno, and What is Appropriate: Other Eleatic Echoes in Anaxagoras”

 

Grant Dowling (Columbia University), “The Consequences of Anaxagorean Circular Motion on the Development of Epistemology”

 

 

SESSION 5 (4 pm to 5:05 pm)

 

Krisanna Scheiter (Union College), “The Significance of Anaxagoras’ Mind”

 

Brian Marrin (Boston College), “The Daring of Anaxagoras and the History of Science in Plato’s Laws