Theoria and Practical Philosophy in Pseudo-Aristotle’s De Mundo
By Benjamin C. Driver (Brown University)
Theoria and Practical Philosophy in Pseudo-Aristotle’s De Mundo
Priests in Public: Aristotle and the Need for Priests in Political Life
By Zachary Taylor (University of Chicago)
When, in the Politics, Aristotle sketches the constitution of the city that “one would pray for” (Pol.
Epistolarity and Monumentality in the Letters of Diogenes of Oenoanda
By Mary Anastasi (UCLA)
Even in antiquity, the philosopher’s letter had become its own genre. But Diogenes of Oenoanda, an Imperial-era Epicurean living in southern Asia Minor, went beyond generic expectations: he published his letters, along with his own Epicurean treatises and maxims, plus the maxims of Epicurus himself, not on papyrus rolls, but on a large public stoa which he himself commissioned. This paper articulates the relationship between epistolarity and monumentality at play in Diogenes’ letters.
Diagrams in the Archimedes Palimpsest
By Xiaoxiao Chen (Department of the Classics, Harvard University)
This paper discusses the diagrams in the Archimedes Palimpsest, which provides among other texts the only extant witness to Archimedes’ Method of Mechanical Theorems. I argue that the diagrams should not be attributed wholly to scribal intervention but are an integral part of the text, and that they are not meant to represent mathematical objects faithfully, but to visualize and magnify information in the text.
Aristotle's Nutritive Soul: Hylomorphic Participation in the Eternal and the Divine
By Daniel D Mackey (University of Pennsylvania)
In this paper, taken from part of my dissertation on Aristotle’s psychology and natural teleology, I argue that Aristotle’s notion of the nutritive soul is far more Platonic than is generally recognized. I argue that previous scholarship on Aristotle’s De Anima tended to treat his hylomorphic conception of the soul-body relation in relative isolation from his other works, which is a mistake.