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*Relativity in Ancient Philosophy 20th – 22nd April 2016*



Durham University

Department of Classics and Ancient History

38 North Bailey

Durham DH1 3EU

All talks in Room 007, known as the Ritson Room.





*April 20th 2016*



For those arriving early:

Possible visit to an exhibition at the Durham University Oriental Museum



*2pm-3pm *

Registration (and Coffee)



*3pm-4.30pm *

Ugo Ziliozi (Durham)

Relativism and correlativity in ancient thought and contemporary physics:
Plato’s *Theaetetus* 152a-157c and Carlo Rovelli’s quantum physics.



*4.30pm- 6pm             *

Matthew Duncombe (Durham)

Uses of relativity in Stoicism



Pub Visit



*April 21st 2016*



*9.30am- 11.00am*

Paolo Fait (Oxford)

TBA



*11.15am- 12.30am*

Olivier D'Jeranian (Paris)

*The problematic status of the stoic "πρός τι πῶς ἔχον"*



Lunch



*1.30pm- 3pm            *

Elisif Wasmuth (Cambridge)

TBA



3.15pm-5pm

*Patricia Marechal (Harvard)*

Aristotelian Relations as Polyadic Predicates



Break



*5.30-7pm*

Katerina Ierodiakonou (Geneva)

Alexander of Aphrodisias on Perception as a Relative



*8pm            *

Conference Dinner



*April 22nd  2016*



*9.30am- 11.00am*

Roger Clark

Context- Relative Pyrrhonism



*11.15am- 12.30am            *

Michael Withey

Friends and Relations



Lunch



*1.30pm- 3pm                        *

Lauren Ware

Plato’s Bond of Love: Eros and the Participation Relation



*3.15pm-5pm                        *

Voula Tsouna

Aristotle and Plato on Reflexivity in Perception



Drinks Reception

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