Program
All papers will be in Room 506A,
Blocker Building,
Texas A&M University
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here for a program in
table format.
9:00 AM-Noon
First Session: Parmenides and
Predication
Chair: Alexander Mourelatos,
University of
Texas at Austin
9:00 AM
Speaker: Patricia Curd,
Purdue University
"Eleatic
Arguments"
Comments: Brian Merrill,
Ricks College
10:30 AM
Speaker: Allan Bäck, Kutztown
University of Pennsylvania
"Precursors of Aristotle's Theory of
Predication"
Comments: Anne Collins Smith and Owen M. Smith,
Austin Community College
12:00 Noon: LUNCH
1:30-4:30 PM
Second Session: Aristotle on
Ethics and Poetry
Chair: Richard Becka,
Texas A&M University
1:30 PM
Speaker: Howard J. Curzer, Texas
Tech University
"Aristotle's Account of the Virtue of Courage in
Nicomachean Ethics III.6-9"
Comments: Anne Farrell, Trinity
University
3:00 PM
Speaker: John M. Armstrong, University
of Arizona
"Aristotle on the Philosophical Nature of Poetry"
Comments: Christopher Colvin, St. Stephen's Episcopal School
6:00 PM
Reception at the home of Robin and Carolyn Smith,
1000 Fox
Circle
9:00 AM-Noon
Third Session: Metaphysics
Chair:
Christopher Menzel, Texas A&M
University
9:00 AM
Speaker: Tim O'Keefe,
University of
Texas at Austin
"Epicurean Reductionism"
Comments: Michael Hand,
Texas A&M University
10:30 AM
Speaker: Kirk Sanders,
University of
Texas at Austin
"Much Ado about 'Nothing': Mêden and Mê
Eon in Parmenides"
Comments:
Scott Austin,
Texas A&M University
12:00 Noon: LUNCH
1:30-4:30 PM
Fourth Session: Aristotle's
Cosmology
Chair: Stephen White,
University of
Texas at Austin
1:30 PM
Speaker: Michael White, Arizona
State University
"Why, According to Aristotle, Is Up Up and Down
Down?"
Comments:
Cynthia Freeland, University
of Houston
3:00 PM
Speaker: David Bradshaw,
University of
Texas at Austin
"In What Sense Is the Prime Mover Eternal?"
Comments:
Sylvia Berryman, University
of Texas at Austin
6:30 PM Banquet at Fererri's Italian Restaurant,
2702 Texas Avenue South
(College Station)
10:00-11:30 AM
Fifth Session: Archytas of
Tarentum
Chair: Gul Russell, Texas A&M University
10:00 AM
Speaker: Carl Huffman, DePauw
University
"Archytas Fragment 1, Hippocratic Medicine, and Plato's
Phaedrus"
Comments: Hal Thorsrud,
University of
Texas at Austin
The organizers wish to thank Arizona State University, DePauw University, Kutztown State University, Purdue University, Ricks College, Texas Tech University, The University of Texas at Austin, and Texas A&M University for support which has made this Workshop possible.