ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY 23rd ANNUAL MEETING
Presents an
International Conference on
October 14-16, 2005
An international gathering of scholars presenting work on the ancient and medieval traditions of philosophy from Greece and Rome, the Middle East, Europe, and Asia
Incorporating the 23nd annual meetings of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy
(SAGP), the Society for the Study of Islamic Philosophy and Science (SSIPS), and the annual meetings of other scholarly societies such as the Association of Chinese Philosophers in America (ACPA)
Friday Meeting (12th Floor), Saturday and Sunday Panels (5th Floor)
Fordham University – Lincoln Center Campus
113 West 60th Street, at the corner of Columbus Avenue
New York, NY 10023
FRIDAY OCT 14, 2005
Registration, Banquet, Introductions and Plenary Panels
REGISTRATION: 4-7:00 p.m. in the Lobby Atrium (at the 60th St. and Columbus Ave. entrance)
CONFERENCE BANQUET: 5:30-7:00 in the 12th Floor Lounge
7:00-7:15 p.m. INTRODUCTIONS
Parviz Morewedge (Conference Coordinator, Secretary, SSIPS, Fordham University and Rutgers University)
Anthony Preus, (Conference Coordinator, Secretary, SAGP, Binghamton University)
Jane Dryden (Local Arrangement, Fordham U.)
Joseph Koterski, S.J. (Conference Coordinator, Fordham University)
Fordham Administrator, TBA
PLENARY PANEL: Greek Philosophy
Chair: Joseph Koterski, S.J. (Conference Coordinator, Fordham University)
John P. Anton (U. of South Florida), “Nature, Value and Praxis: Reflections on Aristotle and
American Pragmatism”
TBA
TBA
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2005
Breakfast, Lunch and Panels
Saturday Breakfast 8-9 a.m.
Saturday I: 09 a.m.-11 a.m.
SAT I.1: Philosophy and Poetry: The Ancient Quarrel: I
Organizer and Chair: Bernard Freydberg (Slippery Rock U.)
John Rose (Goucher College), “The Lover’s Quarrel: Philosophy and Poetry Quarrel Over Music”
Elizabeth Hoppe (Lewis U.), “Quarrel. What Quarrel? Why the Protagoras Defends Poetry”
P. Christopher Smith (U. Mass Lowell), “Virgil’s Destruktion of the Stoic Rational Agent: Rereading Aeneid IV after Heidegger”
SAT I.2: Presocratic Philosophy
Panel organized by SAGP
Chair: William Wians (Merrimack College)
Athanasios Samaras (George Washington U.), “Early Greek Conceptions of Justice (Hesiod, Solon, Anaximander)”
William Wians (Merrimack College), “The Hippocratics and Human Knowledge”
Erik Wingrove-Haugland (U.S. Coast Guard Academy), “Seeking for the Nature of Nature in Heraclitus”
SAT I.3: Socrates and Rhetoric
Panel organized by SAGP
Chair: TBA
George Boger (Canisius College),“Socrates the Sophist?”
Marina McCoy (Boston College), “Platonic Dialogue and the Ancient Greek Forensic Genre” (Apology)
Geoff Batchelder (Catholic U.), “Socrates on the Use and Abuse of Logos”
SAT I.4: Plato’s Republic: Ethical Dimensions
Organized by SAGP
Chair: Madonna Adams (Caldwell College)
Anne Ashbaugh (Colgate U.), “A Spirited Morality” (Republic)
Mark Moes (Grand Valley State U.), “Virtues, Rules, and Goods in Republic 345b-350d”
Rachel Singpurwalla (Southern Illinois U.) “The Metaphysics and Psychology of Plato’s
Defense of Justice in the Republic”
SAT I.5: Aristotle’s Concept of Matter
Panel organized by SAGP
Chair: TBA
Beverly Hinton (West Virginia U.), “Generation, the Unity of Form and the Concept of Matter in Aristotle”
Margarita Fenn (Boston College), “Aristotle’s Dunamis and Energeia: Two is One”
Shehab Ismail (New School for Social Research), “The Elements and their Qualities in Aristotle’s
Physical Theory”
Coffee Break 11-11:15
Saturday II: 11:15 a.m.-01:15 p.m.
SAT II.1: Philosophy and Poetry: The Ancient Quarrel: II
Organized by Bernard Freydberg (Slippery Rock U.)
Chair: P. Christopher Smith (U. of Massachusetts at Lowell)
Heidi Northwood (Nazareth College), “The Whereabouts of Helen: Recantation in Plato
and Stesichorus”
Sara Brill (Fairfield U.), “Metaphysical Solace?: Suppliant Knowledge in the Plays of
Aeschylus”
Bernard Freydberg (Slippery Rock U.), “Sexual koinonia, Aristophanic and/or Platonic?”
SAT II.2: Socrates and Knowledge
Panel organized by SAGP
Chair: TBA
William Evans (Saint Peter’s College), “Socratic Dialogue and the Aims of Liberal Education”
(Laches, Charmides)
Keith McPartland (SUNY at Brockport) “Plato’s Euthyphro”
John Partridge (Wheaton College),“Know Thyself! The Delphic Inscription and Socratic Care of the Self in the Alcibiades”
Patrick Macfarlane (Duquesne U.), “Knowledge and Power in Plato’s Meno”
SAT II.3: Plato’s Later Dialogues
Organized by SAGP
Chair: TBA
Aaron Chait (Northwestern U.), “From Six Appearances to One Essence: Sophist 232a1-b10”
Brian Keady (U. of Denver and Iliff School), “The Nature of Soul and Body in Plato’s Laws”
TBA
SAT II.4: Plato’s Phaedo and Republic
Organized by SAGP
Chair: TBA
Tim Mahoney (Providence College), “Otherworldliness in Plato’s Phaedo”
Michael L. Parker (U. of Cincinnati), “Is the Guard Dog Analogy Just an Analogy? A Question about Republic 375a2-376c6”
Yancy Hughes Dominick(U. of Kansas), “Error and Eikasia: Understanding the Lowest Level of Plato’s Divided Line”
SAT II.5: Individuals, Kinds, and Predicates in Aristotle
Panel organized by SAGP
Chair: TBA
Catherine McKeen (SUNY, Brockport) “Aristotle’s Defense of Animate Individuals from the Threat of Aphairesis” (Categories, Physics, Metaphysics)
Mary Mulhern (Brookside Institute), “Predicaments and Predicables in Aristotle’s Metatheory”
Mark Wheeler (San Diego State U.), “Aristotle on the Semantics of Natural Kind Terms: Wide or Narrow Context?”
SAT II.6: Neoplatonism and Christian Medieval Philosophy
Chair: TBA
Jean-Marc Narbonne (U. Laval), “The God of Iamblichus between Plotinus and the
Christians”
Ariane Economos (Fordham U.), “Aquinas on Analogy and the Limits of Human Knowledge”
Scott M. Sullivan (U. of St Thomas), “How Aquinas Avoids Being an Aristotelian Conceptualist”
Lunch Break: 1:15-2
Saturday III: 02-04 p.m.
SAT III.1: The Presocratics and the Poetic Tradition
Organized and Chaired by Gerard Naddaf (York U.)
Gerard Naddaf (York U.), “The Presocratics and the Poetic Tradition”
Catherine Collobert (U.of Ottawa), “Philosophical Readings of Homer”
Christos Evangeliou (Towson U.), “Porphyry’s Interpretation of Homeric Wisdom”
Ramona Naddaff (U. of California, Berkeley), “The Quarrel Between Philosophy and Poetry”
SAT III.2: Socrates’ Method
Panel organized by SAGP
Chair: TBA
Mark McPherran (U. of Maine), “Socratic Epagoge and Socratic Induction”
Nicholas D. Smith (Lewis and Clark College) and T. C. Brickhouse (Lynchburg College),
“Persuade or Obey” (Crito)
Anne-Marie Bowery (Baylor U.), “The Narrative Dimensions of Socratic Irony”
SAT III.3: Plato’s Theory of Art
Organized by SAGP and ISNS
Chair: Aphrodite Alexandrakis (Barry U.)
Aphrodite Alexandrakis (Barry U.), “Is the Bird’s Song a Work of Art?” (Plato)
Jason Giannetti (Framingham State College), “The Idea of the Beautiful” (Plato)
Noell Birondo (Southern Illinois U. Edwardsville), “Plato, Schopenhauer, and the Beauty of
Numbers”
SAT III.4: Neoplatonism
Organized by SAGP and ISNS
Chair: TBA
Deepa Majumdar (Purdue North Central), “Mysticism and Politics: Plato’s Allegory of the Cave and Plotinus”
Eric Perl (Loyola Marymount, Los Angeles), “The Togetherness of Thought and Being: A Phenomenological Reading of Plotinus’ Doctrine ‘That the Intelligibles are not outside the Intellect’”
J. Noel Hubler (Lebanon Valley College), “The Birth of the Ego: The Development of a
Centralized Consciousness in Ancient Greece” (Neoplatonic)
SAT III.5: Aristotle’s Ethics I
Organized by SAGP
Chair: Bernard H. Baumrin (CUNY Graduate Center)
Jonathan Sanford (Franciscan U. of Steubenville), “Why be Brave, Even Unto Death? Aristotle on Courage”
Martha Beck (Lyon College), “Courage in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics and in Sophocles
Philoctetes”
Thornton Lockwood (Fordham U.), “The ‘Socrates’ of Aristotle’s Ethics”
SAT III.6: ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY I. Intelligibles in the Islamic Tradition and
Aquinas
SSIPS II
Panel organized and chaired by Richard Taylor (Marquette U.)
Richard C. Taylor (Marquette U.), “The Ontological Status of Intelligibles in the Arabic
Tradition: al-Farabi, Avicenna and Averroes”
Max Herrera (Marquette U.), “Aquinas’s Intelligible Species and its Islamic Philosophical Foundation.”
Comments: Gyula Klima (Fordham U.)
Coffee Break 4-4:15
Saturday IV: 4:15-6:15 p.m.
SAT IV.1: Translating, Interpreting, and Presenting Platonic Dialogues”
Organized and Chaired by Glenn Rawson (U. of Rhode Island)
Glenn Rawson (U. of Rhode Island), “Translating Arguments, Themes, and Characters in the
Meno”
Thomas Kiefer (Creighton U.), “Particles, Punctuation, Playfulness and Precision for the
Phaedo”
Alex Zistakis (U. of Athens), “Translation as Supplementation: On the Translatability of
Sophrosyne and Eudaimonia in the Charmides”
Geoff Bowe (Bilkent U.), “Choosing the Text of Clitophon 410C: A Case Study of Grammar,
Characterization and Intertextuality”
SAT IV.2: Plato’s Gorgias
Panel Organized by SAGP
Chair: TBA
Christopher Roberts (New School for Social Research), “Toward a Reappraisal of Plato’s Gorgias”
Matthew Kenney (U. of South Carolina), “Suffering Injustice and the Non-Rational
Foundation of the Socratic Life” (Gorgias)
TBA
SAT IV.3: Plato’s Method
Organized by SAGP
Chair: TBA
John Edelman (Nazareth College), “Listening to Calliope: Plato’s Philosophical Muse”
Miriam Byrd (Western Michigan U.) “Dialectic and Plato’s Method of Hypothesis”
John Hendrix (Roger Williams U.), “Plato and Deconstruction: The Chōra and In-Between” (Derrida and Timaeus)
SAT IV.4: Hellenistic Philosophy
Organized by SAGP
Chair: TBA
Dana Miller (Fordham U.), “Breaking Up Reality in the Old Academy: The Epistemological
Wedges”
Priscilla Sakezles (U. of Akron), “Aristotle and Chrysippus on the Psychology of Human
Action: Criteria for Responsibility”
TBA
SAT IV.5: Aristotle’s Ethics II
Organized by SAGP
Chair: TBA
Hope May (Central Michigan U), “The Epistemological Function of Moral Virtue” (Aristotle)
David Roochnik (Boston U.), “Aristotelian Theoria”
TBA
SUNDAY OCTOBER 16, 2005
Breakfast and Panels
Sunday Breakfast 8-9 a.m.
SUNDAY I: 9-11 a.m.
SUNDAY I.1: Plato's Moral Psychology: Republic or Philebus?
Panel organized and chaired by Matthew Evans, NYU
Matthew Evans (New York U.), “Plato’s Moral Psychology: Republic or Philebus?”
Mitch Miller (Vassar College), “Plato’s Moral Psychology: Republic or Philebus?”
TBA
SUN I.2: Plato’s Symposium
Organized by SAGP
Chair: TBA
Alessandra Fussi (U. of Pisa), “The Desire for Recognition in Plato’s Symposium”
Hyun Hochsmann (New Jersey City U.), “Eros and Paideia in the Symposium and the Republic”
Aron Reppmann (Trinity Christian College), “The Interplay of Chance and Correctness in
Plato” (Symposium, Phaedrus, epVII)
SUN I.3: Plato’s Philebus
Organized by SAGP
Chair: TBA
Edward Butler (New School for Social Research) “Limit, Unlimited and Individual in the Philebus”
Clinton Corcoran (Highpoint U.), “The Dramatic Structure of Plato’s Philebus”
Thomas Kiefer (Creighton U.), “The Theory of Knowledge behind the Philebus”
SUN I.4: Aristotle’s Politics
Organized by SAGP
Chair: John M. Mulhern (U. of Pennsylvania)
Eric Sanday (Marquette U.), “An Aristotelian Critique of Plato’s Republic”
Elizabeth Donaghue-Armstrong (U. of Colorado), “The Natural Existence of Aristotle’s Polis”
John Mulhern (U. of Pennsylvania) , “Peri tes mellouses kat’euchen syunestanai poleos (Concerning the
City about to be established kat’ euchen) Pol. 1325b36”
SUN I.5: Islamic Philosophy II: Comparative Islamic Philosophy
Organized and Chaired by Shalahudin Kafrawi (Moravian College)
Coeli Fitzpatrick (Grand Valley State U.), “Only Averroes Can Save Us Now: Muhammed al-
Jabri and the appropriation of Ibn Rushd for Contemporary Islamic Philosophy”
Achim Koedderman (SUNY, Oneonta), “The Ancestry of Humanitarian Intervention:
Parallels between Medieval Islamic and European Law”
S. S. Scatolini Apostolo (Catholic University, Leuven, Belgium), “Ibn Tufayl’s View of Education in the Hayy Ibn Ydaqzaan”
Shehab Ismail (New School for Social Research) “Aristotle and Avicenna on Physics”
Coffee Break: 11-11:15 a.m.
Sunday II: 11:15 a.m. -1:15 p.m.
SUN II.1: The Reception of Ancient Philosophy
Organized by SAGP
Chair: TBA
Adam Carter (U. of Missouri-Columbia), “Popper, the Open Society, and the Case Against Plato”
Gary Gabor (FordhamU.), “Platonic Katharsis”
Chad Trainer (Phoenixville), “Philosophy in Greece versus that in the East: Frederick Copleston’s Epiphany in Hawaii”
SUN II.2 Islamic Philosophy III: Classics of Islamic Philosophy
Organized and Chaired by Shalahudin Kafrawi (Moravian College)
Parviz Morewedge (Fordham U., and Rutgers U.), “The Intentional Mysticism of N. Tusi”
Shalahdin Kafrawri (Moravian College), “Ibn Sina and F. Razi’s Concept of “The Necessary Existent.”
Mustapha Younesie, (Tehran U., Iran) “Correlation of Community and Speech in Farabi”
Anja Zalta (U. of Primorska, Slovenia), “Kabbalah and Sufism: A Comparison of Ibn Arabi and the Kabbalistic Book Bahir”
SUN II.3 East Asian Philosophy
Organized by Richard Stickler (Alvernia College)
Richard Stickler (Alvernia College), “Topics in Chinese and Western Ethics”
Hyun Hochsmann (New Jersey City College), “Knowledge and Praxis in Some Chinese and Western Epistemologies”
Mary-Louis Friquegnon (William Paterson U. of New Jersey), “Being and Existence in Some Tibetan Buddhism”
TBA
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SUNDAY Afternoon is allocated to workshops organized by various societies.
Please contact Parviz Morewedge (pmorewed@gsp-online.org) for specifics
Greek: Anthony Preus [Binghamton U.](apreus@binghamton.edu); Medieval Christian: Joseph Koterski [Fordham U.] (koterski@fordham.edu), Islamic: Shalhudin Kafrawi [Moravian College] skafrawi@moravian.edu,; Local Arrangements: Jane Dryden
[Fordham U.] janedryden@gmail.com, Other areas: Parviz Morewedge [Fordham U. and Rutgers U.] pmorewed@gsp-online.org, 212-679-6410 and 917-658-3430.
Registration and Attendance
The registration fee is $50 for all participants. The fee includes dinner at the banquet and SAGP Plenary Session on Friday night. Members of academic institutions are invited to attend panels on Saturday and Sunday without charge. Please make the check to “Global Scholarly Publications,” and send it to “Global Scholarly Publications, Madison Avenue, Suite 11G, New York, NY 10016. Conference participants are invited to arrange for their own lodging accommodations (see the following sites: http://www.orbitz.com, and www.nyc.com/hotels [ from $60 to over $1000 per day])