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Nature and Humanity in an Ancient Greek Perspective

The research group in Ancient Philosophy organizes its annual conference 12 - 13 June in room 208, Sydnesplassen 12/13.

Maleri av natur, tempel og to kvinner i bakgrunnen fra antikkens Hellas
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DAY I

9:30 Coffee & welcome

10:00 KEYNOTE: Catherine Rowett

“God, Mind, and Matter in the World of the Pre-Socratics and
theirPredecessors:The Milesians and maybe Some Others”

11:30 Coffee

11:40 Hallvard Fossheim

“A Stoic Perspective on Worth in Nature”

Chair: Andreas Staurheim Enggrav

12:20 Lunch at Café Christie

14:00 Atle Ytrehus

“Parmenides Off and On the Beaten Track of Men”

15:00-15:40 Kristin Sampson

“Nature as Interval and Becoming: The Figure of the Threshold in Hesiod
and Parmenides”

Chair: Oda Tvedt

DAY II

10:00 KEYNOTE: Emanuela Bianchi

“Genos between phusis and technē”

11:30 Coffee

11:40 Bjørn Sether Wastvedt

“Nature and Goodness in Aristotle's Moral Psychology”

Chair: Kristian Larsen

12:40 Lunch at Café Christie

14:10 Marilù Papandreou

“Towards an Aristotelian Notion of Habitability”

14:50 Hayden Ausland

“Aristotle's Understanding of physis in Physics B1 and the Modern Notion
of a Natural World”

15:50-16:30 Conclusion & The Way Forward

Chair: Vigdis Songe-Møller

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