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Attendance is free. Please register your attendance at:
http://philevents.org/event/show/18627
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