Aristotelian Natural Philosophy in Later Greek Antiquity
Rice University
April 15-16, 2005
Friday, April 15
Opening remark and keynote speaker:
4-4:15 PM: Opening remarks
4:15-5:45 PM: Frans de Haas, Professor of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy and Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy, Leiden University, "Aristotelian science in a Platonists' world: the Analytics in later ancient natural philosophy"
Humanities 117
Reception following.
Saturday, April 16:
(All sessions in Humanities 227)
9:00-10:15 AM: Donald Morrison, Professor of Philosophy and Classical Studies, Rice University, "Conceptions of Analysis as a Philosophical Method in the School of Ammonius"
10:30-11:45 AM: Richard McKirahan, Professor of Classics, Pomona College "Philoponus on what is a first principle of science"
1:45-3:00 PM: Carl Pearson, Lecturer in History, Rice University, "Philoponus' Christian Turn and its Methods: Polemics, Exegesis and Harmonization"
3:15-4:30 PM: Christian Wildberg, Professor of Classics, Princeton University, "The impetus behind the impetus. Revisiting the origin of a theory"
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