GANPH – Workgroup on Theoretical Philosophy in Antiquity
08.07.2022 – 10.07.2022
Categories and Kinds:
Ancient Philosophers on the Structure of Reality
8th – 10th July LMU Munich
Program / Plakat
Friday 8th July – Session 1 – Plato and Aristotle on Categories, Kinds and the Structure of Reality
14:00 – 15:00: Roberto Granieri (KU Leuven)
Plato’s Isolation of a Kind Being or Why in the Sophist
To Be Is Not To Be Something
15:00 – 16:00: Ana Laura Edelhoff (University Konstanz)
Aristotle on Ontological Priority in the Categories
16:00 – 16:15: Break
16:15 – 17:15: Gabriel Shapiro (Princeton University)
Beyond the Categories within the Categories
17:15 – 18:15: Denis Walter (University Bonn)
Definitions in the Second Part of the Parmenides
19:30 – Dinner
Saturday 9th July – Session 2 – Categories, Kinds and the Structure of Reality in Hellenism
9:30 – 10:30: Benjamin Wilck (HU Berlin)
Euclid’s Categories
10:30 – 10:45: Break
10:45 – 11:45: Maximilian Robitzsch (University Greifswald)
KD 33: A Hellenistic Debate on the Ontological Status of Events?
11:45 – 12:45: Andrea Lupo (USI Lugano)
Stoic Temporal Gunk: the Temporal Structure of Reality
12:45 – 14:45: Lunch
Session 3 – The Development of Classical Thought on Categories, Kinds and the Structure of Reality in Late Antiquity
14:45 – 15:45: Ina Schall (University Cologne)
Plotinus on Individuation of Sensible Individuals. A Study of the Treatise V. 7 [18]
15:45 – 16:45: Pauline Sabrier (Université libre de Bruxelles)
Unveiling the Basic Structure of Being: Plotinus, Plato and Aristotle on the genê tou ontos
17:00 – 18:30: Keynote by Fiona Leigh (University College London)
Theory Building in Plato’s Sophist
19:30 – Dinner
Sunday 10th July – Session 3 (continuation) – The Development of Classical Thought on Categories, Kinds and the Structure of Reality in Late Antiquity
9:30 – 10:30: Jonathan Greig (KU Leuven)
Sophist 249b5-6 and Plotinus’ Defense Against Aristotle of Motion in Intellect
10:30 – 10:45: Break
10:45 – 11:45: Paolo Colizzi (University Vita- Salute San Raffaele Milano)
Proclus on the Philebus. A New Interpretation of the Basis of his Metaphysics
11:45 – 12:45: Thomas Seissl (University Bochum)
The Greatest Kind of Change: Simplicius on Relative Change in Aristotle
Organisation:
Laura Castelli (LMU Munich)
Béatrice Lienemann (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Abida Malik (JKU Linz)
Denis Walter (University Bonn)