B. A. C. A. P.
BOSTON AREA COLLOQUIUM IN ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY
30TH ANNUAL PROGRAM
2007-2008
FALL
October 25, 2007
David Charles, Oriel College, Oxford
“The Shape of Aristotle's Psychological Theory”
Commentator: Victor Caston, Philosophy & Classical Studies, University of Michigan
Location: Rockefeller 2, Dartmouth College
Seminar Topic: Two Crucial Steps on the Ascent to the Psycho-Physical Viewpoint
November 8, 2007
Álvaro Vallejo Campos, Philosophy, University of Granada
“The Ontology of False Pleasures in the Philebus”
Commentator: Rachel Singpurwalla, University of Maryland at College Park
Location: McElroy Faculty Dining Room, Boston College
Seminar Topic: The Cognitive Theory of Desires in Plato’s Philosophy
November 15, 2007
Daniel Russell, Philosophy, Wichita State University
“Is Virtue Sufficient for Eudaimonia?”
Commentator: Tim Roche, Philosophy, University of Memphis
Location: Dinand Library Faculty Room, College of the Holy Cross
Seminar Topic: Ancient Eudaimonism
November 29, 2007
Rachana Kamtekar, Philosophy, University of Arizona
“The Power of Plato’s Tripartite Psychology”
Commentator: Martha Nussbaum, Philosophy, Law, and Divinity, The University of Chicago
Location: Room 119 Philosophy, Brown University
Seminar Topic: Psychology and Physics in the Timaeus
December 6, 2007
Priscilla Sakezles, Philosophy, University of Akron
“On the Aristotelian Origins of Stoic Determinism”
Commentator: Joel Martinez, Philosophy, Lewis & Clark College
Location: Grace Room, Higgins University Center, Clark University
Seminar Topic: Agency in Ancient Greek Thought
SPRING
February 28, 2008
Helen Lang, Philosophy, Villanova University
“Body and the Science of Nature in Aristotle”
Commentator: Silvia Carli, Philosophy, Xavier University
Location: Room 525, Dept.of Philosophy, 745 Commonwealth Ave., Boston University
Seminar Topic: The Problem of Systematic Philosophy in Aristotle:
Physics II and de Caelo I
March 27, 2008
Harvey Yunis, Classics, Rice University
“Dialectic and the Purpose of Rhetoric in Plato’s Phaedrus”
Commentator: Adam Beresford, Philosophy, University of Massachusetts Boston
Location: Walsh Function Room, Boston College
Seminar Topic: The Arguments of Plato, Phaedrus 259e-266c
April 10, 2008
Heike Sefrin-Weis, Philosophy, University of S. Carolina
“Pros Hen and the Foundations of Aristotelian Metaphysics”
Commentator: TBA
Location: Room 119 Philosophy, Brown University
Seminar Topic: An Aristotelian Science of Being?: Aristotle’s Homogeneity Requirement
for Sciences, and Metaphysics IV, 1-3
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All lectures begin at 7:30 pm.
For more information on the seminars, please contact:
May Sim, Interim Director, BACAP, Philosophy, College of the Holy Cross, msim@holycross.edu
Justin Broackes, Philosophy, Brown University, Justin_Broackes@brown.edu
John Cleary, Philosophy, Boston College, cleary@bc.edu
Mary Louise Gill, Classics and Philosophy, Brown University, Mary_Louise_Gill@brown.edu
Margaret Graver, Classics, Dartmouth College, Margaret.R.Graver@dartmouth.edu
Gary Gurtler, Philosophy, Boston College, gurtlerg@bc.edu
Luke Jerzykiewicz, Philosophy, Clark University, ljerzykiewicz@gmail.com
David Roochnik, Philosophy, Boston University, roochnik@bu.edu
Christine Thomas, Philosophy, Dartmouth College, Christine.J.Thomas@dartmouth.edu
Events in this series are fully supported by grants from the participating institutions: Boston College, Boston University (the Humanities Foundation), Brown University, Clark University, Dartmouth College and The College of the Holy Cross.
The Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy are now published by Brill.
Back issues may be obtained by contacting John Cleary, Editor, cleary@bc.edu.
Recent Lecturers in BACAP Have Included:
Malcolm Schofield, John Cooper, Monique Dixsaut, Roy Polansky, Frank Lewis
Verity Harte, Richard Bett, Dominic Scott, Sarah Broadie, Stephen Menn, Catherine Osborne
Anthony Price, Rachel Barney, David Reeve, Victor Caston, Raphael Woolf
Pierre-Marie Morel, Henry Teloh, Francisco Gonzales, Matt Evans, Katja Vogt, Günther Figal
May Sim, Interim Director
Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy
Department of Philosophy
College of the Holy Cross
One College Street
Worcester, MA 01610
