CPAS Lecture Series Archive

Friday 10 September 2021, 3:30PM
CPAS lecture: Christian Pfeiffer, University of Toronto

27 August 2021
Title: "How I am an Aristotelian"
Richard Kraut, Professor of Classics and Philosophy
Northwestern University
3:30 – 5:30PM, Zoom Event

26 April, 2021
Title: "Desire and Argument in Plato's Gorgias"
Dr Frisbee Sheffield
University of Cambridge
Noon – 2PM, Zoom event

12 March 2021
Title: "Why Thales Knew the Pythagorean Theorem: Re-Viewing the Origins of Greek Geometry and Philosophy"
Robert A. Hahn, Professor of Philosophy
Director, Ancient Legacies Seminars to Greece, Turkey, and Egypt
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
3:30PM – 5:30PM, Zoom Event

17 November 2020
Title:  “Plotinus on Whether Happiness Increases Over Time”
Ursula Coope, Oxford University
11:00AM – 1.00PM, Zoom Event

October 29, 2020
"Cynicism, Ancient and Modern"
Ansgar Allen, University of Sheffield
4:00PM, Zoom Event

October 9, 2020
"Socratic Eudaimonism"
Paul Woodruff, UT Austin
3:30PM, Zoom Event

December 9-10, 2019
“Ancient Greek Psychology Workshop"

Monday 10 a.m.  
Discussion of Rachanar Kamtekar “The Divided Soul”  
Rajiv Hurhanjee, University of Pittsburgh    

Monday 1:30 p.m.  
Discussion of Jozef Müller’s “Practical Wisdom”  
Joe Karbowski and Jennifer Whiting, University of Pittsburgh  

Tuesday 10 a.m. 
“The Impulsive Akratês”
Larkin Philpot, University of Pittsburgh

Discussion of Jozef Müller’s “Self-Control” 
Anwar ul Haq, University of Pittsburgh

Tuesday 1:30 p.m. 
Discussion of Sara Magrin “Plotinus on the Inner sense”
Michael Lang, University of Pittsburgh 

November 22, 2019
"Euclid’s Elements as an Aristotelian Science"  
Ben Morison, Princeton University 
5:00 p.m., Room 501 Cathedral of Learning

November 15, 2019
“Syllogisms and Existence in Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics"
Joseph Karbowski, University of Pittsburgh
3:30 p.m., Room 1008, Cathedral of Learning

November 10, 2019
“Platonic Predication"
Rachel Barney, University of Toronto
3:30 p.m., Room 1008 Cathedral of Learning

September 3, 2019
"Plato on Health and Illness in the Phaedo and the Timaeus"
Gábor Betegh, Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy, Cambridge University, UK
4:40 p.m., Room 1008 Cathedral of Learning

November 29, 2018 
“Aristotle on the Priority of Energeia to Dynamis: Discovery and Spontaneous Generation as Problem Cases.” 
Jonathan Buttaci, Catholic University of America (https://sites.google.com/cardinalmail.cua.edu/buttaci/home
4:30 p.m.

April 27, 2017
“Cicero and Utopia: The Ideal State and the Golden Age Tradition”
Sean McConnell, University of Otago
4:00 p.m., Room 216 Cathedral of Learning

October 26, 2016
'Philosophers- Kings and Stoic Stages: Epictetus' Account of the "Starting Points" (aphormai) of Virtue'
Sara Magrin, University of California at Berkeley
3:30 p.m., G-8 Cathedral of Learning

March 21, 2016
"There is no knowledge of perceptibles and no belief about Forms: Plato's epistemology revisted"
Jessica Moss, NYU
2:00 p.m., 208-B Cathedral of Learning

Friday, February 6, 2015
"Calcidius on Matter"
Gretchen Reydams-Schils, University of Notre Dame
3:30 p.m, 208-A Cathedral of Learning

Friday, November 20, 2015
"Anatomy and Aporia in Galen's On the Construction of Fetuses"
Ralph M. Rosen, University of Pennsylvania
3:30 p.m., Room 206 Cathedral of Learning

Thursday, November 13, 2014
"Why does Aristotle Need Appearance?"
Evan Keeling, UVA and University of São Paulo, Brazil
4:30 p.m., 1001-B Cathedral of Learning

Friday, October 3, 2014
"Receptivity, Spontaneity, and Basic Perceptual Discrimination in Aristotle"
Klaus Corcilius, University of California at Berkeley
3:30 p.m, Cathedral of Learning Room 244A

Friday, January 24, 2014
"Fractured Goodness: the Summum Bonum in Aristotle"
Christopher Shields, Chair, Philosophy Faculty Board, Professor of Classical Philosophy and Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
3:30 p.m., Cathedral of Learning Room 244A

Friday, December 6, 2013
"Essense and Modality in Aristotle"
Marko Malink, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Chicago
3:30 p.m., Cathedral of Learning Room 244B

Monday, November 11, 2013
"Anaximander and Zoogony: Some Philosophical, Historical and Linguistic Issues in Constructing Greek Natural Philosophy"
Andrew Gregory, Reader in History of Science, UCL Department of Science and Technology Studies (STS)
3:30 p.m., Cathedral of Learning Room 349

Monday, March 4, 2013
"Ancient Perspectives on Plato and Platonism: the Creation of the Cosmos"
Christina Hoenig, Faculty of Classics, Cambridge University
4:00 p.m., Cathedral of Learning Room 206

Friday, March 1, 2013
"Poikilia and Poetic Pleasure in Plato's Republic"
Rana Liebert, Assistant Professor, Bard College
4:00 p.m., Cathedral of Learning Room 253

Friday, February 15, 2013
"Defining the Philosopher in Politics in Roman Greece: The Lycurgan Test-Case"
Thomas Keith, Lecturer, Loyola University of Chicago
4:00 p.m., Cathedral of Learning Room 244B

Friday, February 8, 2013
"Understanding Plato On Understanding"
Whitney Schwab, PhD Candidate in Philosophy, Princeton University
4:00 p.m., Cathedral of Learning Room 244B

Thursday, February 7, 2013
"Aristotle on the Virtues of Thought"
Aryeh Kosman, John Whitehead Professor Emeritus, Haverford College
Program of Classics, Philosophy and Ancient Science (CPAS)
5:00 p.m., Cathedral of Learning Room 817R

Friday, September 14, 2012
“An Aesthetic Reading of Aristotle's Ethics"
Richard Kraut, Charles and Emma Morrison Professor in the Humanities, Department of Philosophy, Northwestern University
Program of Classics, Philosophy and Ancient Science (CPAS)
3:30 PM, Cathedral of Learning 244B

Friday, April 27, 2012
“Natural Goals of Actions in Aristotle "
Hendrik Lorenz, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University
Program of Classics, Philosophy and Ancient Science (CPAS)
2:00 PM, Cathedral of Learning 244B

Friday, September 30, 2011  3:30 p.m
'Becoming good by nature': Aristotle on the heritability of character'
Mariska Leunissen, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of North Carolina
Cathedral of Learning–Room 244B

 

Friday, April 29, 2011  4:00 p.m.
"Cicero's De Officiis-practical Stoicism for non-philosopher?"
Gisela Striker, Walter C. Klein Professor Philosophy and of the Classics, Harvard University
Cathedral of Learning–Room 244B

Friday, October 22, 2010
"Aristotle and the Sophists"
Stephen Menn, Associate Professor of Philosophy,
McGill University
4:00 p.m. Cathedral of Learning, Room 244A

Tuesday, November 19, 2009
“Walking and Talking: reflections on Stoic divisions of the soul”
Brad Inwood, Professor of Classics and Philosophy, University of Toronto
4:00 p.m. Cathedral of Learning Room 208A

Tuesday, March 17, 2009
“Escaping one’s own notice knowing: Meno’s Paradox again”
M. M. McCabe, Professor of Ancient Philosophy, King’s College, London, UK
3:30 p.m. Cathedral of Learning Room 144

Friday, March 31, 2006
“Aristotle on the Grand End of the Happy Life”
Gabriel Richardson Lear, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Chicago
3:30 p.m., Cathedral of Learning Room 244A

Friday, December 8, 2006
“The Spell of Protagoras: Truth and Politics in V-IVth Century Greece”
Giovanni Giorgini, University of Bologna, Italy and Visiting Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh
3:30 pm, Cathedral of Learning Room 817R

Friday, February 23, 2007
“On the Nature and Origin of the Orthos Logos in Aristotle’s Ethics”
Dorothea Frede, Department of Philosophy, University of California at Berkeley
2:00 p.m. Cathedral of Learning Room 208A

Tuesday, October 9, 2007
“God’s Transcendent Activity- Ontotheology in Metaphysics"
Markus Gabriel, University of Heidelberg
12:00 noon Cathedral of Learning Room 817R

Friday, January 25, 2008
“Republic X and the Role of Audience in Art”
Verity Harte, Professor of Philosophy and Classics, Yale University
3:30 p.m. Cathedral of Learning Room 244A

Friday. February 22, 2008
“Aristotle on the Pleasures of Tragedy”
Pierre Destree, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Université de Louvain and Visiting Professor at the University of Maryland
3:30 p.m. Cathedral of Learning Room 244A

Friday, April 25, 2008
“Aristotle on Living Matter”
Alan Code, Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers University
3:30 p.m. Cathedral of Learning Room 244A

Friday, December 12, 2008
“The Development of Early Pythagorean Cosmology”
Carl A. Huffman, Robert Stockwell Professor of Greek Language and Literature and Professor of Classics, DePauw University
3:30 pm Cathedral of Learning Room 244B