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SYMPOSIUM PHILOSOPHIAE ANTIQUAE QUINTUM
Polarity and Tension of Being: Pythagoras and Heraclitus
 
PROGRAMME OF SESSIONS
 
Monday 18/7
         09.30 – 11.30   Richard McKirahan
                                  Aristotle as a Source for the Pythagoreans.
 
         11.30 – 12.00   Coffee Break
 
         12.00 – 14.00   Leonid Zhmud
                                  Early Pythagorean
Society (ca. 530-450).
 
Tuesday
19/7 
         09.30 – 11.30   Malcolm Schofield
                                  Pythagoras
the Plagiarist.
 
         11.30 – 12.00   Coffee Break
 
         12.00 – 14.00   Catherine Osborne
                                  Why One should be Passionate about Numbers.
 
         18.00 – 20.00   Debate 
                                  The Personality of Pythagoras and the Nature
of Early Pythagoreanism.
                                  (Akousmatikoi
– Mathematikoi and the Role of Hippasos).
 
Wednesday
20/7 
         09.30 – 11.30   Apostolos Pierris
                                  Monism
and Dualism in Early Greek Thought.
 
         11.30 – 12.00   Coffee Break
 
         12.00 – 14.00   Herbert Granger
                                  Early Natural Theology: The Purification of
the Divine Nature.
 
 
Thursday 21/7 
         09.30 – 11.30   Carl
Huffman
                                  Philolaus’ Critique of Heraclitus.
 
         11.30 – 12.00   Coffee Break
 
         12.00 – 14.00   Dirk Obbink
                                  Lucretias on Heraclitus in Light of the
Herculaneum Papyri.
 
 
Saturday,
23/7
         09.30 – 11.30   Serge Mouraviev
                                  Editing Heraclitus. Polarity and Tensions
between Text and Thought, Form and Content, Trust and Suspicion, Reconstructing
and Hermeneutics
                                  
         11.30 – 12.00   Coffee Break
 
         12.00 – 14.00   Debate
                                  Succession of Theses and Antitheses in
Presocratic Philosophy?
                                  (Ionian
Philosophy – Pythagoras – Heraclitus – Parmenides – Empedocles, Anaxagoras,
Atomism)
         
 
 
 
Sunday
24/7 
         09.30 – 11.30   Anthony Long
                                  Heraclitus on Measure and the Emergence of
Rationality
 
         11.30 – 12.00   Coffee
Break
 
         12.00 – 14.00   Enrique Hülsz
                                  Heraclitus on Logos Language, Rationality
and the Real.
 
Monday
25/7
         09.30 – 11.30   Daniel Graham
                                  Once More Unto the Stream.
 
         11.30 – 12.00   Coffee
Break
 
         12.00 – 14.00   Roman Dilcher
                                  How Not to Conceive of Heraclitean Harmony.
 
Tuesday
26/7
         09.30 – 11.30   Aryeh Finkelberg
                                  Heraclitus, the Rival of Pythagoras.
 
         11.30 – 12.00   Coffee Break
 
         12.00 – 14.00   Gabor Betegh
                                  The Soul and the Cosmos in Heraclitus.
 
         15.00 – 17.00   David
Sider
                                  Ethics in Heraclitus.
 
         17.00 – 17.30   Coffee Break
 
         17.30 – 20.00   Concluding Discussion