These events are made possible in part by generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Earhart Foundation, and the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts at the University of Notre Dame.

2011-2012 Events and Lectures

Spring 2012

Tuesday, February 28, 5:15 PM, 108 DeBartolo: Dmitri Nikulin (New School for Social Research), 'Plotinus on Memory and Recollection' (in cooperation with NDIAS)

Friday, March 9, 3:00 PM, 204 DeBartolo: Lloyd Gerson (Toronto), 'The History of Philosophy for Philosophers' (year-long graduate student seminar led by Anik Stanbury)

Tuesday, March 20, 5:15 PM, 108 DeBartolo: Sara Magrin (UQAM), 'Common Sense Transformed: Plotinus' Analysis of the Conscious Center'

Friday, March 30, 3:00 PM, 220 Malloy: Alan Code (Stanford), 'Causal Definitions in Aristotle's Metaphysics' (Philosophy Department Colloquium)

Friday, May 11, Ancient Skepticism, Voluntarism, and Science, 210-214 McKenna Hall (conference organized by Anjan Chakravartty). The workshop is open and free of charge. Please register by sending an email message to skeptical.voluntarist@gmail.com by April 25th, 2012, indicating your name, affiliation, and whether you will attend lunch .

Conference Schedule (conference poster pdf):

9:00-9:25: Coffee

9:25-9:30: Welcome

9:30-10:40: Michael Williams (Johns Hopkins University), 'The Pyrrhonian Problematic, Then and Now'

10:50-12:00: Casey Perin (University of California, Irvine), 'Conflicting Appearances and Norms of Belief'

12:00-1:20: Lunch

1:30-2:40: Richard Bett (Johns Hopkins University), 'On Pyrrhonism, Stances, and Believing What you Want'

2:50-4:00: Otávio Bueno (University of Miami), 'Realism and Anti-Realism About Science: A Pyrrhonian Stance'

4:10-5:20: Anjan Chakravartty (University of Notre Dame), 'Suspension of Belief and Epistemologies of Science'

Fall 2011

Tuesday, August 30, 3:30 PM, DeBartolo 205: Allan Silverman (Ohio State), 'Glaucon's Division of Goods in Plato's Republic'

Friday, September 23, 4:00 PM, O'Shaughnessy 303: Mark McPherran (Simon Fraser), 'Socratic Religion' (in cooperation with Classics)

Friday, October 7, 3:30 PM, Brownson 307: Mary Nichols (Baylor), 'Thucydides, the Historian' (in cooperation with Political Theory)

Friday, October 28, 3:00 PM, Malloy 220: James Lennox (Pittsburgh) (in cooperation with History and Philosophy of Science)

Thursday, November 10, 5:30 PM, Debartolo 120: Victor Caston (Michigan), 'Aristotle on Perceptual Content' (in cooperation with Philosophy)

Also of interest: graduate student-led year-long seminar on 'Philosophy and History', for more information see, http://blogs.nd.edu/philosophyandhistoryworkshop/

Past Conferences

Deciding Culture: Stobaeus' Collection of Excerpts, in cooperation with the Catholic University of Milan, Spring 2008, published with Brepols, 2011, as Thinking Through Excerpts: Studies on Stobaeus

Cicero's Practical Philosophy, Fall 2006, publication forthcoming with the University of Notre Dame Press

Medieval Greek Commentaries on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, published by Brill, 2009

Plato's Statesman, Fall 2004, contributions published in the electronic journal Plato

Moral Perfection and the Exemplary Sage, year-long seminar in 2003-2004

Idealism in Antiquity, Spring 2002, published by the University of Notre Dame Press, 2006

Nature and Natural Law, Fall 2002, published in The Studia Philonica Annual 15 (2003)

Plato's Timaeus as Cultural Icon, Spring 2000, published as a collection of essays by the University of Notre Dame Press, 2003

Philo of Alexandria, Fall 1994, published in The Studia Philonica Annual 7 (1995)