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Ancient and Early Modern Stoic (Meta)physics - 20-21/05/2019, Utrecht (Netherlands)


This OZSW workshop is devoted to Stoic physics and metaphysics. It aims to bring together scholars of both Ancient and Early Modern philosophy to study Stoic (meta)physics both in its ancient articulation and its early modern reception. In order to do so, the workshop will feature both paper presentations and readings of primary texts.


FECHA/DATE/DATA: 20-21/05/2019

LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: (Utrecht, Netherlands)

ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Albert Joosse; Doina-Cristina Rusu

INFO: L.A.Joosse@rug.nl, D.Rusu@rug.nl

INSCRIPCIÓN/REGISTRATION/REGISTRAZIONE: gratis / free / gratuito

Fecha límite / deadline / scadenza 30/04/2019

PROGRAMA/PROGRAM/PROGRAMMA:


Monday 20 May



Venue: Drift 21, Sweelinckzaal


9:00-9:30 Coffee


9:30-11:00 Reading group 1: Stoic fragments on causation (led by Tamer Nawar)


11:00-11:30 Coffee


11:30-12:15 Adam Smrcz: Lipsius on Causation and Preferred Indifferents


12:15-13:00 Jonathan Shaheen: Cavendish on Causation


13:00-14:00 Lunch


14:00-14:45 Sosseh Assaturian: The Priority of Stoic Definite Assertibles


14:45-16:00 Keimpe Algra: Cosmology and Mathematics in the Stoic Tradition


16:00-16:30 Coffee


16:30-18:00 Reading group 2: Lipsius’ Manuductio ad Stoicam Philosophiam (led by Jan Papy)



Tuesday 21 May


Venue: Drift 21, Sweelinckzaal


9:00-9:30 Coffee


9:30-11:00 Reading group 3: Reviving Stoic Physics from Pena to Lipsius (led by Peter Barker)


11:00-11:30 Coffee


11:30-12:45 Carla Rita Palmerino / Frederik Bakker: The Stoicizing Account of Gravity in Plutarch’s De Facie and its Influence on Galileo


12:45-13:30 Lunch


13:30-14:15 Tyler Huismann: A New Model of Stoic Blending


14:15-15:00 Susanne Beiweis: Stoic Materialism and the Concept of Pneuma in Marsilio Ficino



Venue: Drift 25, 103


15:30-16:45 Jan Papy: Paradoxes as a Way to Virtue in Lipsius’ Manuductio ad Stoicam Philosophiam

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