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CSAMP Proseminar: Peter King
CSAMP Proseminar: Peter King
"Augustine on Pulling the Trigger." ABSTRACT. The main philosophical puzzle in Confessions 8 is how someone can want to do something but nevertheless fail to do it. This is, I argue, a problem about what we now call "commitment" and, as such, it is distinct from (but related to) classical problems of weakness of will. […]
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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 […]
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CSAMP Proseminar: Vanessa de Harven (UMass Amherst)
CSAMP Proseminar: Vanessa de Harven (UMass Amherst)
Substantial Confusion: Why Stoic ousia is Not Matter Abstract. There is an underlying debate in the literature over how to understand and translate the term ousia for the Stoics. So far, this debate has taken place primarily in the margins and footnotes of debates about other matters. And yet the interpretive stakes are quite high — […]
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CSAMP Proseminar: Jessica Gelber
CSAMP Proseminar: Jessica Gelber
Aristotle on Necessity “from an assumption” Abstract: Aristotle thinks there are different ways to be necessary. One way, often called “hypothetical” or “conditional” necessity, is associated with his commitment to teleology: something is hypothetically necessary when it is needed for some end or purpose to be achieved. It is standard orthodoxy that Aristotle’s main […]