Universals Ancient Philosophy

6 – 8 September 2010
Aula Mancini - Palazzo della Carovana - Piazza Dei Cavalieri, 7

Scuola Normale Superiore - Pisa
Università degli Studi 'Roma Tre' - Philosophy Department - Rome

UNIVERSALS IN ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY

Program:

Monday September 6th

Chair: Francesco Del Punta (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)
9:30 Marwan Rashed (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris)
The Cosmology of the Timaeus: The 'Ockham's Razor' of Platonism

11:00 Break

11:15 Francesco Ademollo (Liceo Classico Galileo, Florence)
Plato's Conception of the Forms: Some Remarks

12:45 Lunch Break

Chair: Gabriele Galluzzo (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)
15:30 David Sedley (Christ's College, Cambridge)
Plato and the One-Over-Many Principle

17:00 Break

17:15 Laura Castelli (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)
Universals, Particulars and Aristotle's Criticism of Plato's Forms

Tuesday September 7th

Chair: David Sedley (Christ's College, Cambridge)
9:30 Mauro Mariani (Università degli studi, Pisa)
Universals in Aristotle's Logical Works

11:00 Break

11:15 Gabriele Galluzzo (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)
Universals in Aristotle's Metaphysics

12:45 Lunch Break

Chair: Peter Adamson (King's College, London)
15:00 Mauro Bonazzi (Università degli studi, Milan)
Before Plato: Universals Before 'The Universals'

16:30 Ada Bronowski (New College, Oxford)
Epicurean and Stoic Contributions Towards a Conceptualist Notion of a Universal

18:00 Riccardo Chiaradonna (Università degli studi 'Roma Tre')
Universals in Ancient Medicine

Wednesday September 8th

Chair: Marwan Rashed (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris)
9:30 Riccardo Chiaradonna (Università degli studi 'Roma Tre')
'Alexander, Boethus and the Other Peripatetics'.
Universals in the Aristotelian Commentators

11:00 Break

11:15 Peter Adamson (King's College, London)
One of a Kind. Plotinus and Porphyry on Unique Instantiations

12:45 Lunch Break

Chair: Riccardo Chiaradonna (Università degli studi 'Roma Tre')
15:00 Christoph Helmig (Humboldt-Universität, Berlin)
Later Neoplatonists on Particulars, Universals, and Degrees of Universality

16:30 Break

16:45 Johannes Zachhuber (Trinity College, Oxford)
Universals in the Church Fathers

The so-called problem of universals – i.e. the question of understanding what, if anything, corresponds in reality to our universal concepts and general terms – is as old as philosophy itself and is still at centre of the contemporary philosophical debate. The workshop reconstructs the birth of the problem as well as the way in which it came to acquire a prominent stance in Ancient Greek thought. A number of international experts will meet to discuss all the different moments of the Greek understanding of the problem of universals, from the Presocratics to the Church Fathers. The different philosophical positions will be examined not only from the point of view of their undisputed historical significance, but also with an eye to their presence in the contemporary philosophical discussion.

For further information please contact:
g.galluzzo@sns.it
rchiaradonna@uniroma3.it

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