Chair

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Richard D. Mohr


Speakers

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Keynote Speakers:

Sir Anthony Leggett
2003 Nobel Laureate for Physics
"Plato's Timaeus:
Some Resonances in Modern Physics and Cosmology"

Alexander Nehamas
(Philosophy, Princeton University)—
"Love and Beauty in Plato's Symposium:
'Only in the Contemplation of Beauty is
Human Life Worth Living'"

Anthony Vidler
(Dean of the School of Architecture,
the Cooper Union)
"The Atlantis Effect: The Lost Origins of Architecture"

Plenary Speakers:

Ann Bergren
(Classics, UCLA)—
"Animate Chôra Form:
The Architecture of Greg Lynn and Elena Manferdini"

Gabor Betegh
(Philosophy, Central European University, Budapest)—
"What Makes a Myth ΕΙΚΩΣ?
Remarks inspired by Myles Burnyeat’s ΕΙΚΩΣ ΜΥΘΟΣ"

Justin Broackes
(Philosophy, Brown University)—
"Colors: Ancient and Modern"

Sarah Broadie
(Philosophiy, University of St. Andrews)—
"Divine and Natural Causation in the Timaeus"

Myles Burnyeat
(Philosophy, All Souls College, Oxford University)
"Myth and Reason in the Timaeus"

Sean Carroll
(Physics, California Institute of Technology)—
"From Eternity to Here: Time and Change
in an Eternal Universe"

Alan Code
(Philosophy, Rutgers University)—
"Weight"

Zina Giannopoulou
(Classics, University of California, Irvine)—
“Derrida's Khôra, or Unnaming the Timaean Receptacle”

Verity Harte
(Philosophy, Yale University)—
"'The Receptacle and the Primary Bodies:
Something from Nothing?"

Katerina Ierodiakonou
(Philosophy, University of Athens)—
"Basic and Mixed Colors in Plato's Timaeus"

Thomas Kjeller Johansen
(Philosophy, Oxford University)—
"Should Aristotle have recognized final causation
in the Timaeus?"

Charles Kahn
(Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania)—
"Cosmology in the Philebus and Timaeus"

Anthony Long
(Classics, University of California, Berkeley)—
"Plato's Craftsman God and the Stoics' Zeus"

Stephen Menn
(Philosophy, McGill University)—
"The Timaeus and the Critique
of Pre-Socratic Vortices"

Mitchell Miller
(Philosophy, Vassar College)—
“The Unwritten Teachings in the Philebus,
in the Timaeus?"

Kathryn Morgan
(Classics, UCLA)—
"Narrative Orders in the Timaeus and Critias"

Alexander P.D. Mourelatos
(Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin)
"The Epistemological Section (29B-D) of the Proem in Timaeus' Speech: Discussion of M. F. Burnyeat's Analysis, with a Comment on Xenophanes' B34."

Ian Mueller
(Philosophy, University of Chicago)—
"What's the Matter?
Simplicius on the Receptacle"

Thomas M. Robinson
(Philosophy and Classics, University of Toronto)
“Plato on (just about) Everything:
Some Observations on the Timaeus and Other Dialogues”

Kirk Sanders
(Philosophy and Classics,
University of Illinois-Urbana)

Barbara Sattler
(Philosophy, Yale University)—
“Planetary Motions as a Guide through History?:
Plato's Astronomy and Philosophy of History
in the Timaeus"

Allan Silverman
(Philosophy, Ohio State University)—
"Philosopher-Kings and Craftsman-Gods"

Matthias Vorwerk
(Philosophy, Catholic University of America)—
"Maker or Father? Plotinus on the Demiurge"

Donald Zeyl
(Philosophy, University of Rhode Island)—
“Visualizing the Receptacle"