13-14 ottobre 2017: Forms. New Perspectives on Ancient Metaphysics and Epistemology

International Conference
FORMS. New Perspectives on Ancient Metaphysics and Epistemology
13-14 ottobre 2017
Università degli Studi di Milano - Italy
Keynote speakers:
Gábor Betegh (University of Cambridge)
Victor Caston (University of Michigan)
Programme
Session 1. October 13
Sala Crociera Alta di Studi Umanistici
Chair: Franco Trabattoni (Milano)
14:30 - Registration
14:45 - Opening
15:00 - Keynote speaker: Gábor Betegh (Cambridge)
Being, Same and Difference: What are they and what are they for?
16:00 - Pauline Sabrier (Trinity College Dublin)
Forms and ‘Great Kinds’ in Plato’s Sophist
16:45 - Coffee break
17:00 - Pieter D’Hoine (KU Leuven)
Plato, Proclus, and the Third Man
Session 2. October 14
Sala di Rappresentanza del Rettorato
Chair: Mauro Bonazzi (Milano)
9:30 - Keynote speaker: Victor Caston (Michigan)
Receiving Form without the Matter: Aristotle on the Transmission of Information
10:30 - Coffee break
10:45 - Christian Pfeiffer (LMU München)
Forms as Causes. Hylomorphism in Z.17
11:30 - Giulia De Cesaris (Durham)
Why should One Dismiss the Forms? Speusippus’ Re-Thinking of Plato’s Theory of Forms
12:30 - Lunch
Session 3. Sala di Rappresentanza del Rettorato
Chair: Federico Petrucci (Durham)
14:30 - Sosseh Assaturian (Texas at Austin)
Aristotle and the Stoics on Signification
15:15 - Ada Bronowski (Oxford)
Five Senses, One Mortal Soul, Zero Forms
16:00 - Coffee break
16:30 - Gweltaz Guyomarc’h (Lyon)
Forms, Structures and Powers in Alexander of Aphrodisias
Forms is promoted by the Department of Philosophy of the Università degli Studi di Milano.
Filippo Forcignanò is the organizer of the conference.
Scientific Committee:
- Mauro Bonazzi (Università degli Studi di Milano)
- Filippo Forcignanò (Università degli Studi di Milano)
- Federico Petrucci (Durham University)
- Franco Trabattoni (Università degli Studi di Milano)