Craft and Nature in Plato and Aristotle (Workshop)

Program

Thursday, 6 March

2.00-3.15
Mary-Louise Gill (Brown): Craft and Causation in Aristotle’s Theory of Soul
Response by Rareş I. Marinescu (Toronto)

3.15-4.30
Caleb Cohoe (Denver): An Internal Light, Not an External Sun: νοῦς ποιητικός in Aristotle’s De Anima III 5
Response by Cal Fried (Toronto)

4.30-4.45 Coffee break

5.00-6.00
Ulysse Chaintreuil (Toronto): Aristotle’s Ontology in Trouble: The Case of Artefacts
Response by Emily Perry (Concordia)

7.30 Speakers’ dinner

Friday, 7 March

10.00-11.15
Rachana Kamtekar (Cornell): Craft and Cause
Response by Jason Singer (Toronto)

11.15-12.30
Thomas Slabon (S. Florida): Pythagorean Function Arguments: Plato, Archytas, Aristotle
Response by Samuel Boudreau (Toronto)

12.30-2.00 Lunch break

2.00-3.15
Mariana B. Noé (Harvard): Human Beings as Dependent Self-Movers in Plato’s Laws
Response by Ryan K. Balot (Toronto)

3.15-4.30
Rachel Barney (Toronto): Eikos Logos: The Obvious Reading
Response by Diego García R. (Munich/Toronto)

Funded by
The Canada Research Chair in Ancient Philosophy
The Collaborative Specialization in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy

Convenors
Diego García R. (d.garcia@campus.lmu.de)
Rareş I. Marinescu (r.marinescu@utoronto.ca)