Northern Association for Ancient Philosophy Meeting, April 10-11, 2017

Event date: 
Monday 10 April to Tuesday 11 April

 Northern Association for Ancient Philosophy Meeting, April 10-11, 2017

 

Programme:

 

Monday April 10

 

1 pm Coffee 

1.20-1.30 Welcome from the President (Dr Patricia Clarke) 

1.30-3.00 pm Professor William Charlton (University of Edinburgh)

‘Ancient and modern treatments of some syncategorematic terms.’

3.05-3.45 pm Ni YU (PhD candidate, University of Edinburgh)

‘The Unity of Plato’s Meno’

3.45 – 4.15 pm Coffee break

4.15-5.45 pm Dr Laura Maria Castelli (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich)

‘Alexander of Aphrodisias on deductive arguments and their principles’

5.50-6.30 pm Jonathan Greig 

(PhD Candidate, LMU Munich)

‘The One’s causality between Proclus and Damascius’

7:15 Dinner

Tuesday April 11

 

9:00-9:30 Coffee

9.30-11 am Professor Richard King (University of Bern)

‘Aristotle on Nutrition’

11-11.30 am Coffee break

11.30 am -1 pm Dr David Leith (University of Exeter)

‘Athenaeus of Attaleia on the Elements of Medicine’

1:00- 1:15 ABM

Lunch

G.06, 50 George Square. The event is open (no registration). Inquiries to inna.kupreeva@ed.ac.uk and simon.trepanier@ed.ac.uk