ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY @ APA EASTERN 2025

New York City, January 8-11, 2025 at the Sheraton Times Square

 

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 2025

 

LATE MORNING, 11:00 A.M.–12:50 P.M.

 

1F. Symposium: Aristotle on Perceptual Self-Consciousness

Room: Madison 6 (Fifth Floor)

Chair: Sam Berrettini (Boston University)

Joshua Trubowitz (The University of Chicago): “Aristotle on Perceptual Self-Consciousness”

Comments: Rosemary Twomey (Brooklyn College) and Caleb Cohoe (Metropolitan State University of Denver)

 

AFTERNOON, 2:00–3:50 P.M.

2K. Invited Symposium: Crafting Race in Mediterranean Antiquity

Room: Sugar Hill (Lower Level)

Chair: Elena Comay del Junco (University of Connecticut)        

Patricia Marechal (University of California, San Diego) and John Proios (The University of Chicago): “Ancient Greek Philosophy of Race”

Toni Alimi (Cornell University): “Augustine’s Varieties of Natural Slavery”

 

LATE AFTERNOON, 4:00–5:50 P.M.

 

3J. Invited Symposium: Ancient Metaphysics

Room: Empire West (Second Floor)

Chair: Martina Botti (Columbia University)

Mary-Louise Gill (Brown University): "Primary Things and their Essence in Aristotle’s Metaphysics Z.6"

Gabriel Shapiro (University of Michigan): “Aristotle's Regress Argument for Essentialism”

 

W12. Papers in Progress Workshop Group: Ancient Philosophy

Room: Sugar Hill (Lower Level)

Fulmer Everett (Loyola University New Orleans)

Sevcan Gugumcu (Independent Scholar)

Bradford Kim (University of Southampton)

Dong-geun Kim (University of Edinburgh)

 

THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 2025

 

MORNING, 9:00–10:50 A.M.

 

5J. Symposium: Aristotle on Sameness of Action and Affection

Room: Flatiron (Lower Level)

Chair: Jim Flynn (Caldwell University)

Harry Alanen (University of Pittsburgh): “The Puzzle of Physics III.3: Aristotle on the Sameness of Action and Affection”

Comments: Sean Sirks (Virginia Tech) and Vivian Feldblyum (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville)

 

LATE MORNING, 11:00 A.M.–12:50 P.M.

 

6H. Symposium: Aristotle on the Rightivity of Virtue

Room: Madison 6 (Fifth Floor)

Chair: Natalie Hannan (Providence College)

Robert Andrew Bishop (California State University, San Bernardino): “Aristotle on the Rightivity of Virtue”

Comments: Michael Mburu (St. John’s University) and John Johnson (Concordia University Chicago)

 

AFTERNOON, 2:00–3:50 P.M.

 

7D. Colloquium: Themes from Aristotle

Room: Madison 3 (Fifth Floor)

Chair: Norah Woodcock (Princeton University)

Howard Curzer (Texas Tech University): “Character Education and the Disadvantaged”

Comments: Cassie Finley (University of Iowa and Wesleyan University)

Sebastiano Belleggia (Columbia University): “Aristotle on ‘ὡς ἐπὶ τὸ πολύ’: Correlation vs. Causation”

Comments: Melle Van Duijn (University of Oklahoma)

 

G7A. Hume Society 1

Topic: Hume and Epicureanism

Room: Madison 1 (Fifth Floor)

Chair: Charles Goldhaber (University of Florida)

Dale Dorsey (University of Kansas): “Hume on Hedonism and Human Nature”

Aaron Zubia (University of Florida): “Hume and Epicurus on Marriage and Family”

Comments: Vivian Feldblyum (Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville)

 

LATE AFTERNOON, 4:00–5:50 P.M.

 

8I. Colloquium: Ancient Social and Political Philosophy

Room: Park 2 (Fifth Floor)

Chair: Emily Hulme (University of Sydney)

Max DuBoff (Yale University): “Epicurean Sexuality”

Comments: Tim O’Keefe (Georgia State University)

Anna Bates (University of Washington–Seattle): “Degrees of Injustice in Republic 2”

Comments: Rusty Jones (University of Oklahoma)

 

EVENING, 7:00–10:00 P.M.

 

G9B. Society for the History of Political Philosophy

Topic: Socratic Reflections on Virtue, Corruption, and the Good Life

Room: Madison 2 (Fifth Floor)

Chair: Jack Condie (The New School)

Sam Hage (Tulane University): “Socratic Corruption in Xenophon’s Symposium”

Jordan Poyner (Catherine Project): “The Ends of Knowledge: Friendship and Divinity in the Lesser Hippias”

Quinn Rifkin (Boston College): “Moderation and Tyranny in Plato’s Charmides”

Nicolas Day (Tulane University): “The Goodness of the Mixed Life in Plato’s Philebus”

 

G9D. Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy

Room: Madison 4 (Fifth Floor)

Chair: Eleanor Oser (Boston University)

Thornton Lockwood (Quinnipiac University): “Aristotle’s City by Nature: Naturalism or Epistemology?”

Robin Weiss (National Taiwan University): “From Self-Interest to Altruism in Stoicism”

Max Bergamo (Yale University and University of Padua): “Musonius Rufus and Galen on Avoiding Distress”

 

FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 2025

 

MORNING, 9:00–10:50 A.M.

 

G10A. International Society for Socratic Studies

Topic: Women in Plato and Xenophon

Room: Madison 1 (Fifth Floor)

Chair: Nickolas Pappas (The Graduate Center, CUNY)

Catherine McKeen (Williams College): “The Clever Hetaira’s Guide to Hunting and Catching Friends: Plato’s Lysis and Xenophon’s Memorabilia III.11”

Cinzia Arruzza (Boston University): “Xenophon on Women’s Nature and Courage”

 

W12. Papers in Progress Workshop Group: Ancient Philosophy

Room: Sutton Place (Lower Level)

Fulmer Everett (Loyola University New Orleans)

Sevcan Gugumcu (Independent Scholar)

Bradford Kim (University of Southampton)

Dong-geun Kim (University of Edinburgh)

 

EARLY AFTERNOON, 12:00 NOON–2:00 P.M.

 

PS. Poster Session and Coffee Break

Room: Metropolitan Ballroom West (Second Floor)

Qianxun Feng (University of Chicago): “The Concept of Pathos and the Unity of Pleasure in Plato’s Philebus”

Brian Reese (University of Central Florida): “Non-Contradiction: What Aristotle Saw and Sextus Missed”

 

AFTERNOON, 2:00–3:50 P.M.

 

12F. Symposium: Aristotle on the Soul

Room: Madison 4 (Fifth Floor)

Chair: David Murphy (The Nightingale-Bamford School)

Ashley Attwood (University of Arkansas): “Predication and Progress: How Aristotle Defines the Soul”

Comments: Jungmin Ohn (University of Massachusetts Amherst) and Ryan Miller (University of Geneva)

 

G12C. Hume Society 2

Topic: Hume and Stoicism

Room: Madison 2 (Fifth Floor)

Chair: Charles Goldhaber (University of Florida)

Adam Potkay (William & Mary): “Hume and the Stoics on Suicide”

Lorraine Besser (Middlebury College): “Learning from the Stoic Sage: Hume’s Analysis of Happiness and Virtue”

Comments: Michael Vazquez (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

 

EVENING, 7:00–10:00 P.M.

 

W12. Papers in Progress Workshop Group: Ancient Philosophy

Room: Madison 2 (Fifth Floor)

 

SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 2025

 

MORNING, 9:00–10:50 A.M.

 

15J. Invited Symposium: Sense Perception in Ancient Philosophy

Room: Park 3 (Fifth Floor)

Chair: Aleksandra Kuciel (Syracuse University)

Lea Aurelia Schroeder (Purdue University): “Seeing Motion and Moving Objects in Plato’s Timaeus and Theaetetus”

Comments: Mark Eli Kalderon (University College London)

Michael Arsenault (Tubingen University): “Aristotle and the Possibility of Perception at a Distance”

Comments: Mark Johnstone (McMaster University)

 

W12. Papers in Progress Workshop Group: Ancient Philosophy

Room: Liberty 4 (Third Floor)

Fulmer Everett (Loyola University New Orleans)

Sevcan Gugumcu (Independent Scholar)

Bradford Kim (University of Southampton)

Dong-geun Kim (University of Edinburgh)

 

LATE MORNING, 11:00 A.M.–12:50 P.M.

 

16J. Invited Symposium: Justice for Aristotle

Room: Sugar Hill (Lower Level)

Chair: Mark C. Brennan (Northern Virginia Community College)

Mitzi Lee (University of Colorado): “How is Aristotelian Justice a ‘Mean’?”

Dhananjay Jagannathan (Columbia University): “Justice and the Passions in Aristotle”