The Fifteenth Annual Arizona Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy – The Work of Julia Annas
February 5th-6th, 2010
University of Arizona, Tucson
Friday — Rogers College of Law, Room 164
- 8:30-8:45: Opening remarks — Mark McPherran, Julia Annas, and Chris Maloney
Session I — Chair: Rachana Kamtekar (University of Arizona)
- 8:45-10:15: Paul Woodruff (University of Texas) — “Justice as a Virtue of the Soul” – Comments by Suzanne Obdrzalek (Claremont McKenna College)
- 10:30-12:00: Nick Smith (Lewis and Clark College) — “Plato on Ignorance as a Cognitive Power” – Comments by Hugh Benson (University of Oklahoma)
Lunch Eddie Lynch Pavillion: 12:15 pm – 1:45 pm Session II — Chair: Barry F. Vaughan (Mesa Community College)
- 2:00-3:30: Dan Russell (Wichita State University) — “Aristotle’s Virtues of Greatness” – Comments by Joel Martinez (Lewis and Clark College)
- 3:45-5:00: Paul Bloomfield (University of Connecticut) — “Eudaimonia and Practical Rationality” – Comments by Thomas Blackson (Arizona State University)
5:00-5:30: Break Session III — Chair: Teresa Padilla (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
- 5:30-7:00: Mark LeBar (Ohio University) and Nathaniel Goldberg (Washington & Lee University) — “Psychological Eudaimonism and Interpretation in Greek Ethics” – Comments by Rachel Singpurwalla (University of Maryland)
Saturday – Rogers College of Law, Room 164
Session IV — Chair: Michael Morgan (Indiana University)
- 9:00-10:30: Christopher Gill — “The Stoic Providential Universe — Does Physics Depend on Ethics?” – Comments by Michael White (Arizona State University)
- 10:45-12:15: Brad Inwood — “How Unified is Stoicism Anyway?” – Comments by Eric Brown (Washington University)
Session V — Chair: Toby Chow (University of Chicago)
- 2:30-4:00: Richard Bett (Johns Hopkins University) — “Did the Stoics Invent Human Rights?” – Comments by David O’Connor (University of Notre Dame)4:15-5:45: Scott LaBarge (Santa Clara University) — “How (and maybe Why) to Grieve Like an Ancient Philosopher” – Comments by Marina McCoy (Boston College)
- 6:00-7:30: Tony Long (University of California at Berkeley) — “Plotinus, Ennead 1.4 as a Critique of Earlier Eudaimonism” – Comments by Zina Giannopoulou (University of California at Irvine)
7:45-9:30: Reception at Rachana Kamtekar’s house
There is a registration fee of $160 ($100 for graduate students), due by February 1, 2010, made out to ‘U of A Foundation, Philosophy’. It should be sent to Arizona Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Arizona, P.O. Box 210027, Tucson, AZ 85721-0027.
For further information, please contact Mark McPherran, Philosophy, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., V5A 1S6, CANADA, (778)-846-6186, mark_mcpherran@sfu.ca; or the Colloquium Assistant, Michelle Jenkins (jenkinsm@u.arizona.edu), Philosophy, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 85721-0027, USA.
Also see the colloquium website at: http://phil.web.arizona.edu/events/ancientphilo.htm