Aristotle's Physics Alpha Symposium Aristotelicum

by Ierodiakonou, Katerina; Kalligas, Paul; Karasmanis, Vassilis

• ISBN13: 9780198830993
• ISBN10: 0198830998
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2019-07-30
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Katerina Ierodiakonou, Professor of Ancient Philosophy, University of Athens / University of Geneva,Paul Kalligas, Professor of Ancient Philosophy (formerly), University of Athens,Vassilis Karasmanis, Emeritus Professor, National Technical University of Athens

Katerina Ierodiakonou is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and at the University of Geneva. She is also a member of the research programme Representation and Reality: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on the Aristotelian Tradition at the University of Gothenburg. She has published extensively on ancient and Byzantine philosophy, especially in the areas of epistemology and logic. She is currently working on a monograph about ancient theories of colour, as well as on an edition, translation, and commentary of Theophrastus' De Sensibus and of Michael Psellos' paraphrase of Aristotle's De Interpretatione.

Paul (Pavlos) Kalligas is a former Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science of the University of Athens. He is currently the Director of the European Cultural Centre of Delphi. His main scholarly project is an edition with translation and commentary of the Enneads of Plotinus into Modern Greek, published by the Academy of Athens; six volumes of this work have appeared so far and an English translation of the commentary is due to be published by Princeton University Press. He has also worked and published extensively on Plato, Aristotle, the Sophists, and the history of Platonism.

Vassilis Karasmanis is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the National Technical University of Athens. He is a specialist in ancient philosophy, ancient science (mainly mathematics), and philosophy of technology. He has published four books and edited another eight (six of them with others), including Remembering Socrates (Oxford 2006, with Lindsay Judson). He has also published fifty two articles in various philosophical journals or collective volumes. Vassilis Karasmanis is an elected member of FISP (International Federation of Philosophical Societies) since 2013.

Table of Contents

Preface
20th Symposium Aristotelicum List of Participants (Delphi, 26 July - 2 August 2014)
Symposium Aristotelicum
Introduction: Some general remarks on Aristotle's Phys. I, Carlo Natali
1. Physics I 1: The path to the principles, Stephen Menn
2. Physics I 2: Looking for a starting-point. The Eleatic paradox put to good use, Michel Crubellier
3. Physics I 3: Towards the principles. Resolving the Eleatics' arguments for absolute monism, Diana Quarantotto
4. Physics I 4: One and many, Gabor Betegh
5. Physics I 5: Principles and contraries, Sylvain Delcomminette
6. Physics I 6: A third and underlying principle, Andreas Anagnostopoulos
7. Physics I 7, part 1: The complexity of the subject in a change, Benjamin Morison
8. Physics I 7, part 2: The principles of natural things. Two or threea, Hendrik Lorenz
9. Physics I 8: The route to solving the Eleatic puzzle, Mariska Leunissen
10. Physics I 9: Responding to the Platonists, Sarah Broadie
Bibliography
Index of Names
Index Locorum