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
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