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