Brigham Young University, Provo, UTAH (USA),
23 - 27 June 2008
Chair
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Daniel W. Graham
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Speakers
Science
Daniel W. Graham—
"Presocratic Astronomy and Ionian Science"
The Milesians
Apostolos Pierris—
"The Logical Order of Presocratic Chronology"
Thales
Serge Mouraviev—
"A New Look at Thales"
Livio Rossetti—
"Talete, Anassimandro, e gli architetti"
Andreas Schwab—
"Between Reception and Construction:
A New Examination of Some Old Testimonies
of Thales of Miletus"
Heraclitus
Francesc Casadesús—
"Why Was a Delian Diver Required to Understand Heraclitus? D.L. 2.22 and 9.12"
Lucia Saudelli—
"I ‘cadaveri’ di Eraclito (fr. 96 Dk) e
la polemica pagana di Simplicio"
Pythagoreans
Carl Huffman—
"Did Pythagoras Develop an Ionian Style Cosmology?"
Richard McKirahan—
"The Metaphysics of Philolaus"
Gabriele Cornelli—
"Philolaus’ Epistemology:
"The Method of Archai Between Ionian and
Eleatic Philosophy"
Keynote address
David Runia—
"Aëtiana: Observations on the Use of the Diaeresis
in the Placita"
The Sophists
Maria Cecília Coelho de Miranda M. N.—
"Gorgias’ On Not-Being: Rhetoric and Logic"
Marco Antonio Santamaria—
"Alternative Wisdom for a Polis in Crisis:
Sophists and Orphics in the Athens of Socrates"
Symposium on Alexander P. D. Mourelatos—
The Route of Parmenides, 2nd edition
*Chair: Michael Shaw
Presenter: Emese Mogyorodi
Commentators: Richard McKirahan, Patricia Curd
Response: Alexander Mourelatos
Parmenides
Patricia Curd—
"Parmenides on Thought"
Herbert Granger—
"Parmenides on Being and Thought"
Parmenides on Doxa
Alberto Bernabé—
"Uses of Negative Adjectives by Presocratic Philosophers"
Scott Austin—
"Is There Appearance?
The Problem of Parmenidean Doxa"
Nestor-Luís Cordero—
"Deconstruction of Parmenidean Doxa"
Beatriz Bossi—
"On the Epistemological Interpretation
of Parmenides DK B16"
Presentation on multi-spectral imaging and
Herculaneum Papyri
Apostolos Pierris—
"Heraclitus and the Derveni Papyrus:
Column iv Reconstituted on the Evidence
of Multispectral Imaging"
Philosophical Developments
Omar Álvarez—
"Anonymous’ Mocker of Parmenides and
Zeno’s Eleatic Orthodoxy"
Aryeh Finkelberg—
"Milesian Ideas of God, Soul, and the World"
The Pluralists
John E. Sisko—
"On the Question of Homeomerity
in Anaxagorean Physics"
Simon Trépanier—
"Empedocles and His Demons"
Miriam Peixoto—
"Sur le concevoir et le percevoir:
à propos de fragment 68 A 105 DK"
T. M. Robinson—
"Parmenides, Diogenes of Apollonia, and their Successors on Cognitive Achievement"
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