B. A. C. A. P.
BOSTON AREA COLLOQUIUM IN ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY
26TH ANNUAL PROGRAM
All lectures begin at 7:30 pm unless otherwise noted.
FALL SEMESTER
September 18
Alfred and Maria Miller
(Catholic University)
“Aristotle’s Metaphysics as the Ontology of Being-Alive and
its Relevance for Modern Biology”
Commentator: John Cleary (Boston College)
Location: 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 525
Boston University
Seminar Topic: Aristotle’s Holistic Causation
Revisited
September 25
Marcelo Boeri
(University of the Andes)
“Socrates, Aristotle, and the Stoics on the Apparent and Real Good”
Commentator: Iakovos Vasiliou (CUNY-Brooklyn)
Location: Walsh Function Room, Walsh Hall
Boston College
Seminar Topic: The Socratic Background to Aristotle’s
Nicomachean Ethics III.4-5
SPRING SEMESTER
February 19
Aryeh Kosman
(Haverford College)
“The Other Face of Justice: Equality and Integrity in Plato's Republic”
Commentator: Mary-Hannah Jones (Wesleyan University)
Location: Browsing Room, Dinand Library
College of the Holy Cross
Seminar Topic: Justice as a Principle of Difference:
Republic II-IV
March 11
John Sallis
(Pennsylvania State University)
“The Flow of Physis and the Beginning of Philosophy: On Plato's Theaetetus”
Commentator: Nikolas Pappas (CCNY)
Location: Walsh Function Room (Walsh Hall)
Boston College
Seminar Topic: On Physis in Heracleitus
April 1
Ursula Coope
(Birkbeck College)
“Aristotle's Account of Agency in Physics III.3”
Commentator: Daryl Tress (Fordham)
Location: Lurie Conference Room
Clark University
Seminar Topic: Change in Physics III.1-3
April 15
Stephen Menn
(McGill University)
"On Plato’s Politeia"
Commentator: Sarah Monoson (Northwestern University)
Location: Gerard House 119
Brown University
Seminar Topic: Philosophy and the Politeia
of the Spartans
April 22
Susan Sauvé Meyer
(University of Pennsylvania)
"Plato’s Politics"*
Commentator: Tad Brennan (Yale University)
Location: Emerson 305
Harvard University
Seminar Topic: Qualifications for Class Membership
in Plato's Republic: Beyond the Myth of the Metals
*Note: This lecture begins at 4:00 pm.
May 13
Daniel Devereux
(University of Virginia)
“Socrates’ Defense of Justice in the Republic”
Commentator: Lee Franklin (SUNY-Albany)
Location: Rockefeller Center, Room 1
Dartmouth College
Seminar Topic: Varieties of Eudaimonism in
Plato and Aristotle
For more information, please contact:
Michael Pakaluk, Director, BACAP, Philosophy, Clark University, mpakaluk@clarku.edu
Justin Broackes, Philosophy, Brown University, Justin_Broackes@brown.edu
John Cleary, Philosophy, Boston College, Cleary@bc.edu
Christopher Dustin, Philosophy, Holy Cross, cdustin@holycross.edu
Alessandra Fussi, Philosophy, Holy Cross, afussi@holycross.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
David Roochnik, Philosophy, Boston University, roochnik@bu.edu
Mark Schiefsky, Classics, Harvard University, mjschief@fas.harvard.edu
Gisela Striker, Philosophy, Harvard University, striker@fas.harvard.edu
Christine Thomas, Philosophy, Dartmouth College, Christine.J.Thomas@dartmouth.edu
Raphael Woolf, Philosophy, Harvard University, woolf@fas.harvard.edu
The Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy are now published by Brill. Back issues may be obtained by contacting John Cleary or Gary Gurtler, S.J., Editors.
Our project for enriching teaching and scholarship in ancient philosophy will continue this year through a series of public lectures and associated seminars. 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, Harvard University, and Holy Cross College.
