Northwestern University,
the University of Chicago, and
the University of Illinois at Chicago
present
a conference on
Philosophy and Science
in the Ancient Greek World: A Conference in Honor of Ian Mueller
April 19-20, 2002
Friday April 19, 2002
12:00-1:30:
Lunch in Evanston for speakers and organizers
Afternoon Session at Northwestern
University:
2:00-3:45: Richard Sorabji (King's
College London/University of Texas) Topic: Personal Survival in Ancient
and Modern Philosophy.
Comments: Martha Nussbaum (University of Chicago)
4:00-5:45:
Robin Smith (Texas A&M University) Topic: "Error in the Posterior
Analytics."
Comments: Henry Mendell (California State, Los Angeles)
Morning Session at
the University of Illinois at Chicago:
9:00-10:45: Speaker: Mario
Mignucci (King's College London), "Aristotle and Logical Formalism."
Comments: Scott Schreiber (St. Norbert's College)
11:00-12:45: Michael
Wedin (UC Davis) Topic: "On the Use and Abuse of Non-Contradiction:
Aristotle's Critique of Heraclitus and Protagoras"
Comments: Mitzi Lee (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Afternoon Session
at the University of Chicago:
2:00-3:45:
Myles Burnyeat (All Souls College Oxford) Topic: Plato's Timaeus
Commentator: David Rehm (Mount St. Mary's College)
4:00- 5:45: Stephen
Menn (McGill University) Topic: Eudoxus' Theory of Proportion and
his Method of Exhaustion
Comments: Howard Stein (University of Chicago)
6:00-7:30:
Reception at the University of Chicago
7:30:
Dinner for participants [location TBA]
Rooms can be reserved at conference rates of $119 per night at the
Raphael Hotel (next to the John Hancock Tower on Michigan Avenue),
(800) 983-7870. Van transportation will be available between hotel
and campuses. For further information about attending the conference,
or to attend the dinners Friday or Saturday evening, please contact
Rachel Barney rbarney@midway.uchicago.edu, 773-702-6034, fax at 773-702-9861,
or Mitzi Lee at mmlee@uic.edu,
312-413-1041.