Conference

    23—27 June 2008
    Brigham Young University
    Provo, Utah
    IAPS International Association for Presocratic
    Studies Conference:
    Ionian Philosophy and Science

    and

    Symposium on Alexander P. D. Mourelatos,
    The Route of Parmenides, 2nd edition

    IAPS - Ionian Philosophy and Science


    Chair

    Daniel W. Graham


    Speakers


    Science
    Daniel W. Graham—
    "Presocratic Astronomy and Ionian Science"

    The Milesians
    Apostolos Pierris—
    "The Logical Order of Presocratic Chronology"

    Thales
    Serge Mouraviev—
    "A New Look at Thales"

    Livio Rossetti—
    "Talete, Anassimandro, e gli architetti"

    Andreas Schwab—
    "Between Reception and Construction:
    A New Examination of Some Old Testimonies
    of Thales of Miletus"

    Heraclitus
    Francesc Casadesús—
    "Why Was a Delian Diver Required to Understand Heraclitus? D.L. 2.22 and 9.12"

    Lucia Saudelli—
    "I ‘cadaveri’ di Eraclito (fr. 96 Dk) e
    la polemica pagana di Simplicio"

    Pythagoreans
    Carl Huffman—
    "Did Pythagoras Develop an Ionian Style Cosmology?"

    Richard McKirahan—
    "The Metaphysics of Philolaus"

    Gabriele Cornelli—
    "Philolaus’ Epistemology:
    "The Method of Archai Between Ionian and
    Eleatic Philosophy"

    Keynote address
    David Runia—
    "Aëtiana: Observations on the Use of the Diaeresis
    in the
    Placita"

    The Sophists
    Maria Cecília Coelho de Miranda M. N.—
    "Gorgias’ On Not-Being: Rhetoric and Logic"

    Marco Antonio Santamaria—
    "Alternative Wisdom for a Polis in Crisis:
    Sophists and Orphics in the Athens of Socrates"

    Symposium on Alexander P. D. Mourelatos—
    The Route of Parmenides, 2nd edition
    *Chair: Michael Shaw
    Presenter: Emese Mogyorodi
    Commentators: Richard McKirahan, Patricia Curd
    Response:
    Alexander Mourelatos

    Parmenides
    Patricia Curd—
    "Parmenides on Thought"

    Herbert Granger—
    "Parmenides on Being and Thought"

    Parmenides on Doxa
    Alberto Bernabé—
    "Uses of Negative Adjectives by Presocratic Philosophers"

    Scott Austin—
    "Is There Appearance?
    The Problem of Parmenidean Doxa"

    Nestor-Luís Cordero—
    "Deconstruction of Parmenidean Doxa"

    Beatriz Bossi—
    "On the Epistemological Interpretation
    of Parmenides DK B16"

    Presentation on multi-spectral imaging and
    Herculaneum Papyri
    Apostolos Pierris—
    "Heraclitus and the Derveni Papyrus:
    Column iv Reconstituted on the Evidence
    of Multispectral Imaging"

    Philosophical Developments
    Omar Álvarez—
    "Anonymous’ Mocker of Parmenides and
    Zeno’s Eleatic Orthodoxy"

    Aryeh Finkelberg—
    "Milesian Ideas of God, Soul, and the World"

    The Pluralists
    John E. Sisko—
    "On the Question of Homeomerity
    in Anaxagorean Physics"

    Simon Trépanier—
    "Empedocles and His Demons"

    Miriam Peixoto—
    "Sur le concevoir et le percevoir:
    à propos de fragment 68 A 105 DK"

    T. M. Robinson—
    "Parmenides, Diogenes of Apollonia, and their Successors on Cognitive Achievement"

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