THE CANADIAN COLLOQUIUM FOR ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY

LE COLLOQUE CANADIEN DE PHILOSOPHIE ANCIENNE

Programme

University Hall
McMaster University
14-16 October 2016 | 14-16 Octobre 2016

All talks held in Convocation Hall, 2nd floor of University Hall.

Saturday banquet at Lake Road Restaurant, 229 James Street North, Hamilton L8R 2L2
FRIDAY, 14 OCTOBER / VENDREDI 14 OCTOBRE
8:30-9:00
Coffee & snacks / Caf et collations

9:00-9:10
Introductory remarks / remarques introductives (Sean Coughlin, Mark Johnstone)
9:10-10:20
Charlotte Witt (new hampshire): Hylomorphism: Artifacts and Animals | Chair: Wil Waluchow (mcmaster)
Coffee break / pause-caf
10:30-11:10
Christopher Byrne (st. francis xavier): The Principles of Aristotles Physics | Chair: Riin Sirkel (vermont)
Coffee break / pause-caf
11:20-12:00
Elena Cagnoli Fiecconi (oxford / geneva): Aristotle on Attention | Chair: Rachel Parsons (lsu)
12:00-1:10 in the tower room (room 316) of university hall
Lunch for participants / dner pour les participant(e)s
13:10-13:50
Nathanael Stein (florida state): Platonic and Aristotelian Division | Chair: Sean Corner (mcmaster)
Coffee break / pause-caf
14:00-14:40
Isabelle Chouinard (montral): La libert selon Diogne de Sinope: une interprtation de D.L. VI 71
Chair: David Hitchock (mcmaster)
14:40-15:50
Poster session / discussion des aff iches (with refreshments / avec collations)

La Derome (mcgill), Hippocrate et Aristote sur lanatomie du crne

Nicholas Dunn (mcgill), The Gods Dont Lie: Faith, Reason, and Epistemology in Socratic Philosophy
Adam Woodcox (western), Beauty, Complexity, and Chance: The Stoic Critique of Epicurean Mechanistic Cosmogony
Alex Gillham (purdue), Epicurus on the Role of Knowledge in the Good Life
Marta Jimenez (emory), Aristotle on Pleonexia, Proper Self-Love and the Unity of Justice
Cecilia Li (western), Aristotle on Desire and Phantasia in Animal Locomotion
Thornton Lockwood (quinnipiac), Aristotle on Intra- and Inter-Species Philia
Jacob Stump (toronto), Socratic Refutation and Role-based Epistemic Duties

16:00-18:00
Panel: Sexual Difference in Aristotles Biological and Political Works
Marguerite Deslauriers (mcgill), Mariska Leunissen (unc chapel hill), Devin Henry (western ontario)
Chair: Michael Griffin (ubc)
18:15-19:15 at the west room of the mcmaster university club

Colloquium Reception

SATURDAY, 15 OCTOBER / SAMEDI 15 OCTOBRE

8:45-9:10
Coffee & light breakfast snacks / Caf et collations

9:10-9:50
Christina Olfert (tufts): Practical Ends and Thinking About the Future | Chair: Jennifer Whiting (pittsburgh)
Coffee break / pause-caf
10:00-10:40
Toomas Lott (nyu / tartu): Socrates and the Puzzle of Learning | Chair: Glenn Koehn (huron)
Coffee break / pause-caf
10:50-12:10
Benot Castelnrac (sherbrooke): Socrates et les enqutes sur la nature | Commentary by Gerard Naddaf (york) |
Chair: John Thorp (western)
12:10-13:30 in the tower room (room 316) of university hall
Lunch for participants / dner pour les participant(e)s
13:30-14:10
Roger Clarke (queens, belfast): Context Sensitive Pyrrhonism | Chair: Lloyd Gerson (toronto)
Coffee break / pause-caf
14:20-15:30
Stephen Menn (mcgill / humboldt-universitt): Does God have a Power for Aristotle? | Chair: Mark Johnstone
15:30-16:10
Poster session / discussion des aff iches (with refreshments / avec collations)
16:15-18:15
Author-Meets-Critics: David Bronstein (georgetown): Aristotle on Knowledge and Learning: The Posterior Analytics
Commentary: James Allen (toronto) & Gisela Striker (harvard) | Chair: Riin Sirkel (vermont)

19:00 at the lake road restaurant, 229 james street north, hamilton l8r 2l2
Colloquium Banquet
SUNDAY, 16 OCTOBER / DIMANCHE 16 OCTOBRE
change of venue / changement de lieu:

the alexander room at staybridge suites hotel, 20 caroline street south, hamilton l8p 1c9
9:30-11:30
Author-Meets-Critics: Michael Griffin (ubc): Aristotles Categories in the Early Roman Empire
Commentary: Andrea Falcon (concordia) & Stephen Menn (mcgill / humboldt) | Chair: Sean Coughlin (humboldt)
(Optional) 12:00 - Radius Restaurant (51 james st s , hamilton , on l 8 p 2 z 5)
Lunch + Organizational Meeting

The Canadian Colloquium for Ancient Philosophy acknowledges the generous support of the
following sponsors / Le colloque canadien de philosophie ancienne tient remercier nos parrains pour
leur soutien gnreux
McMaster University, Department of Philosophy
McMaster University, Department of Classics
McMaster University, Faculty of Humanities

University of British Columbia, Department of Philosophy

University of Western Ontario, Department of Philosophy

Our sincerest thanks go to Merve Tuna for designing our colloquium posters.