Department of Philosophy

 

Werkmeister Conference on Aristotle: From Metaphysics

to Ethics

A tribute to the contributions - to the community of Florida State University and to the field of philosophy - of Professor Russell M. Dancy

(Sponsored by the William H. and Lucyle T. Werkmeister Endowment Fund)

March 21-23, 2003

Program

Friday, March 21st

Morning Session:

9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Speaker: Deborah Modrak (University of Rochester), "Aristotelian Minds, Meanings, and Things"

Speaker: Stephen White (University of Texas - Austin), "Aristotle's Pleasures"

Afternoon Session:

1:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

Speaker: Mary Louise Gill (Brown University), "The Two Levels Hypothesis in Aristotle's Metaphysics"

Speaker: Aryeh Kosman (Haverford College), "On the Uses of Ousia: Aristotle's Ontology in Metaphysics?"

Keynote Speaker: Myles Burnyeat (All Souls College), "The Pleasures of Philosophy"

Saturday, March 22nd

Morning Session:

9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Speaker: Terence Irwin (Cornell University), "The Good and the Right: Aristotle and his Interpreters"

Speaker: John Cooper (Princeton University), "Stoic Autonomy"

Afternoon Session:

1:15 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Speaker: James Lennox (University of Pittsburgh), "Physics 2.2: What is the Problem?"

Sunday, March 23rd

Morning Session:

9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Speaker: David Depew (University of Iowa), "From Plato's Statesman to Aristotle's Politics"

Speaker: Russell Dancy (Florida State University), "The Identity of Things with Their Essences"

Session Chairs

Leon Golden (Florida State University)

Josiah Gould (SUNY - Albany)

Nebojsa Kunjundzic (University of Prince Edward Island)

Michael Ruse (Florida State University)

Steven Strange (Emory University)

W. Jeffrey Tatum (Florida State University)