Conferences - 2009
May 2, 2009
Mellon Metaphysics Workshop
10:00 - 6:00, Goldwin Smith 142
Speakers Include:
Karen Bennett, Cornell University
Andre Gallois, Syracuse University
Kris McDaniel, Syracuse University
Alyssa Ney, University of Rochester
Brad Weslake, University of Rochester
May 9, 2009
Upstate NY Early Modern Workshop:
A Berkley Bonanza
10:00 - 6:30, Goldwin Smith 158
For complete agenda see UNYEMW website
Georges Dicker, SUNY Brockport
“'An Idea Can Be Like Nothing But An Idea'—Another Try"
Commentator: Wade Robison
Alex Klein, Cornell University
"In Defense of Berkeley's Empiricism"
Commentator: P.D. Magnus
Margaret Atherton, University of Wisonsin-Milwaukee
Title TBA
Commentator: Melissa Frankel
Cornell Summer Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy
May 28-30, 2009
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Past Conferences
The Legacy of Kant II:
The Fate of Kant in an Age of Crisis, 1918-1945
October 31 - November 1, 2008
The Cornell Program in Ancient Philosophy Presents:
A Conference on Platonic Epistemology and Metaphysics
Featuring Papers on Plato's "Meno," "Phaedrus," "Republic," and "Philebus"
October 10 - October 11, 2008
A.D. White House
This conference is sponsored by the Sage School of Philosophy and the Department of Classics, Cornell University, with the generous support of Jack L. Karp '58..
SCHEDULE
Friday, October 10
3:00 pm
Professor M.M. McCabe, King's College London
speaking on Plato's Republic.
Comments by Jacob Klein, Cornell University
Saturday, October 11
10:00am
Professor Casey Perin,University of Massachusetts, Amherst
speaking on Plato's Meno
Comments by Saul Rosenthal, Cornell University
1:00pm
Professor Verity Harte, Yale University
speaking on Plato's Philebus
Comments by Kristen Inglis, Cornell University
4:00pm
Professor Dominic Scott, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, speaking on Plato's Phaedrus
Comments by Alice Phillips, Cornell University
SPEAKERS
M.M. McCabe is the author of "Plato on Punishment," "Plato's Individuals", and "Plato and his Predecessors," as well as the general editor of the Cambridge University Press series "Studies in the Dialogues of Plato".
Casey Perin has published on Ancient Skeptics, Stoics, Aristotle and Descartes.
Verity Harte is the author of "Plato on Parts and Wholes" as well as a number of articles on all aspects of Platonic philosophy.
Dominic Scott is the author of "Recollection and Experience" and "Plato's Meno", although he is not the author of Plato's Meno.
Cornell Summer Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy
May 29-31, 2008
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