Ancient philosophy workshop
Early Greek
philosophy and life sciences
9-11 January 2014
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6,
room 2103
Thursday, 9th January
9.30-10
Welcome address
10-11 Maria
Michela Sassi (Università di Pisa) – The matter of mind for the
Presocratics
11-11.30
Coffee break
11.30-12.30 Claire Louguet
(Université Lille 3) – Aristotle’s criticism of pangenetic theories: a
fresh start?
15-16
Stavros Kouloumentas (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) – Alcmaeon on
health and disease
16-16.30
Coffee break
16.30-17.30 Daniela Manetti
(Università degli Studi di Firenze) – In defence of a “worthless”
philosopher: Hippo of Croton
Friday, 10th January
10-11 Elizabeth
Craik (University of St Andrews) – [Hippocrates] On flesh
11-11.30
Coffee break
11.30-12.30 Hynek
Bartoš (Charles University, Prague) – The concept of pneuma in On regimen
15-16 David
Sedley (Christ’s College, Cambridge) – Empedoclean superorganisms
16-16.30
Coffee break
16.30-17.30 Constantinos
Macris (CNRS, Paris) – The Pythagorean taboo on beans: between religion
and dietetics, cosmology and magic-chemical experimentation
Saturday, 11th January
9.30-10.30 David
Sider (New York University) – Anaxagoras on nutrition
10.30-10.45 Coffee break
10.45-11.45 Miriam Peixoto
(Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais) – Life, birth and death in the
physiology of Democritus
11.45-12
Coffee break
12-13
Lorenzo Perilli (Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata) – Outside
the Hippocratic Corpus: losers and winners in early Greek science
The workshop is funded by the research group of Professor
Philip van der Eijk “Medicine
of the Mind, Philosophy of the Body. Discourses of Health and Well-Being in the
Ancient World” (funded by the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Stiftung),
by the Topoi Research Group “Mapping Body
and Soul” (funded by the Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft) and by the Ancient Philosophy and Science
Network (funded by DAAD).
For registration and queries, please contact the workshop organiser, Stavros
Kouloumentas at skouloumentas@gmail.com.
