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Álvarez Salas, Omar D. - Mexico : Pherecydes’ shifting theonyms: word coinage or dialectal variation?

Álvarez, Lucas Manuel - Argentina : Los efectos del cuerpo visible desde la óptica gorgiana. 

Audra, Zoe - UK:  Language, Truth and the Rational Capacity in Parmenides. 

Barahona, Constança - Brazil : The constitution of the soul - Aristotle’s critics on the Presocractics in the Parva Naturalia. 

Beconi, Marco - Italy : New Perspectives on the σοφοί of Miletus: the case of Thales, Anaximander, and Xenophanes. 

Begley, Keith - Ireland : Heraclitus and Plato against Polymathy and Parataxis.

Beresford, Adam - USA : The On Truth Papyrus: Antiphon on Human Equality. 

Bergamo, Max - France / Germany : How to Dispose of the Bodies of the Dead:The Duo Democritus-Heraclitus in a Peculiar Hellenistic Tradition.

Bergomi, Mariapaola - ITALY : Soul’s Temperature. Hippo of Rhegium and the etymology of ψυχή in Plato’s Cra., 399 d-e.

Berruecos Frank, Bernardo - Mexico : On the Counterpoint of Rhythm and Meter: Poetics of Dislocation and Anomalous Versification in Parmenides’ Poem. 

Brémond, Mathilde - France : Gorgias’ role in the reception of Eleaticism.

Campos, Rogerio G. de - Brazil : Pythagoras not written in Hermias of Alexandria. 

Cantor, Lea - UK :  Assuming Parmenides argued for numerical monism, what follows? 

Casella, Federico - Italy : Empedocles’ dimidiate panentheism : transcendence and immanence of philia between cosmic laws and human agency.

Casertano, Giovanni - Italy : Logistikòn, thymós and epithymía before Plato. 

Chandler, Clive - South Africa : Anaximander’s Earthquake: Some Problems and Reflections’ Author’s. 

Chaturvedi, Aditi - India : The demiurgic function of Love in the fragments of Empedocles.

Chondrokoukis, Michalis - Greece : Empedoclean Acosmia: the dubious idea of the "four concentric spheres" and some related eschatological misinterpretations. 

Chrysakopoulou, Sylvana - Greece : Who are the meteorologists in Aristophanes’ Clouds?

Ciampa, Chiara Raffaella - UK : Between poetry, philosophy and medicine: body, soul and dreams in Pindar, Heraclitus and the Hippocratic author.

Conte, Bruno - Brazil : The gap between Parmenides’ argument on Being and his cosmology in the Aristotelian account. 

Cordero, Nestor-Luis - France : Jusqu'où va la "Voie de la Doxa" chez Parménide?/ How far does the "Way of Doxa" go in Parmenides?

Cornelli, Gabriele - Brazil : The primordial law of time in the first fragment of the history of philosophy (Anaximander 12 B1 DK).

Costa, Alexandre - Brazil : On the mutual incompatibility between being (eínai) and coming-to-be (gígnesthai) in the Poem of Parmenides.

Cursaru, Gabriela - Canada : Empedocles’ differentiated usage of στροφάλιγξ and δίνη. 

DeLong, Jeremy C. - USA :  The “Knowing Lights” of Parmenides’ 1.3.

Destrée, Pierre - Belgium : Why did the sceptic Timon choose Xenophanes as his mouthpiece ?

Dondoni, Luca - UK : The Quest for Fundamentality. 

Dostalova, Ludmila - Czech Republic : The Rise of Logic from Politics. 

Duque, Mateo - USA : Individuation in Heraclitus.

Feldman, Sarah - Canada : Unity of Ignorance, Ignorance of Unity: Animal-Human Juxtapositions in Heraclitus. 

Ferella, Chiara - Germany : Change of Form: Personal Survival and Continuity of Self in Empedocles’ Concept. 

Ferro, Francesco - Italy : Parmenides : a Superficial and Stubborn Father. The Eleatic Legacy in the Sophist.

Folit-Weinber, Benjamin - UK : Parmenides’ hodos of inquiry and the invention of what-is. 

Fontes, Luis Márcio - Brazil : Melissus’ B8: a reappraisal. 

Franchi, Leonardo - Italy : Heraclitus and Parmenides via Seneca.  

Giardina, Giovanna R. - Italy : Aristotle on the continuum of Democritus.

Giombini, Stefania - Spain : For a ‘proto-history’ of the principle of non-contradiction: Gorgias and Antiphon. 

Griffiths, Jonathan - UK : Can we find a theory of self-motion in Anaxagoras?

Guggenberger, Rainer - Brazil : One God Amongst Gods? Embedment and Contextualization of the Theological Fragments of Xenophanes DK 21 B 23-26. 

Hahn, Robert - USA : Did Aristotle get the Origins of Philosophy Wrong? Modular Thinking, Substance Monism, and the Origins of Philosophy: Architecture, Gnomon, Coinage, and the Felting of Wool. 

Heinemann, Gottfried - Germany : Still Another Note on Zeno’s Arrow.

Hladký, Vojtěch - Czechia : Empedocles’ zoogony: Attempt of a new reconstruction.

Ilievski, Viktor - España : The Presocratics and the Problem of Evil. 

Izdebska, Anna - Germany / Poland : The significance of Presocratics in medieval Arabic narratives about Greek philosophy. 

Kalogerakos, Ioannis - Greece : Andreia in Democritus. 

Karagöz, Taha - France : Heraclitus on Naming, Signifying and Declaration. 

Karasmanis, Vassilis - Greece:  Hippocrates of Chios and his Contributions to Mathematics. 

Kazmierski, Sergiusz - Germany : Kleanthes liest Heraklit / Cleanthes reads Heraclitus.

Knezhevich, Vishnya - Serbia : Philolaus’s or Hippocratic Embryological Model of Cosmogenesis (and Do We Need to Choose)?

Kočandrle, Radim - Czech Republic : Beginnings of the Concept of a Spherical Earth in Ancient Greek Cosmology and Its Preconditions. 

Kraus, Manfred - Germany : Ὁμόν, ὁμοῦ, ὁμῶς etc. and Parmenidean Monism.

Lebedev, Andrei V. - Greece : Analogies from gold-washing and seeds winnowing in early cosmogonies and Plato’s Timaeus. Neglected evidence on the cosmic vortex in Anaximander, Anaxagoras and Xenophanes. 

Luchetti, Claudia - Germany / Austria : "The Things that I prize the most”. The Dawn of Subjectivity in Heraclitus. 

Macé, Arnaud - France : On growing seeds: exploring the function of growth in Anaxagoras’ Metaphysics. 

Machín, Deyvis Deniz - Venezuela : On nature. An approach to Diogenes of Apollonia’s material and physiocognitive monism.

MacIsaac, Gregory - Canada : Plato and Aristotle on the Elements of the Presocratic Materialists. 

Macris, Constantinos - France : New perspectives on ancient Pythagorean philosophy: The advantages of the prosopographical method. 

Marshall, Laura - USA : Parmenides and Apollonius: Hellenistic Poetry and the Presocratics. 

Matos, Daniel Mazza Brazil : The incorporeality of what-is in Melissus of Samos. 

McKirahan, Richard - USA : An Aristotelianizing Parmenides. 

Mogyoródi, Emese - Hungary : Materialism and Immaterialism, Compatibility and Incompatibility in Parmenides. 

Neels, Richard - Canada : Opposites and Explanations in Heraclitus.

Németh, Attila - Hungar : Democritus on atomic shapes. 

Oki, Takashi - Japan : Aristotle’s Refutation of the Eleatic Argument in Physics I.8. 

Padilla, Maria Teresa - Mexico : The protoelemental humidity of Thales as the beginning of Philosophical thought on a living φύσις. 

Panchenko, Dmitri - Russian : The Legacy of the European Bronze Age and the Presocratic Cosmologies.

Parker, Luke - USA :  A critique of Heraclitus’ poetics in Plato’s Cratylus. 

Peixoto, Miriam - Brazil : Pleonexia. Democritus' verdict on the desire to always have more.

Pellò, Caterina - UK : Sleeping and Dying in Presocratic Philosophy. 

Pitt, Rafael - Brazil : Empedocles, Papyrus Derveni, Orpheotelestas.

Rowett, Catherine - UK : Did matter really matter to the Presocratics? 

Sánchez Castro, Liliana Carolina - Colombia : Aristotle on Anaxagoras ́ Intellect. 

Sanday, Eric - USA : The Spontaneity of What-Is in Parmenides Fr. 8.

Santaniello, Carlo - Italia : Empedoclean Epistemology. 

Santoro, Fernando - Brazil : Venus and Parmenides’ Erotics. 

Sattler, Barbara M. - Germany : Zeno’s understanding of apeiron.

Sentesy, Mark - USA : The Problem with Parmenides’s False Road Story.

Silva, André Luiz Braga da - Brazil : Parmenides’ Principle of Non-Contradiction in Plato’s Republic and Sophist.

Silva, Martim Reyes C. - Brazil : Heraclitus' Discourse as an Archaic Composition.

Slabon, Thomas - USA : God-Given Functions and the Choiceworthiness of Wisdom: Archytas’ On Wisdom and Aristotle’s Protrepticus.

Soares, Lucas - Argentina : La poesía de Solón como antecedente del cosmos de Anaximandro.

Tassis, Tomaz de - Brazil : Some Considerations on Peter Kingsley’s Interpretation of Early Greek Philosophy: A Reading Based on Voegelin, Heidegger and McEvilley. 

Tegos, Michalis - Greece : The Greek Event’ in Contemporary Philosophy.

Theodoropoulou, Alexandra - Greece : Parmenides’s On Nature and the unfolding of Eon (Being) as an initiatory process. 

Tor, Shaul - UK : Philolaus on knowledge and boundaries.

Trépanier, Simon - UK : Re-editing and Re-interpreting lines d 1-10, of the Strasbourg papyrus of Empedocles. 

Tuozzo, Thomas - USA : Anaxagoras’ Corpuscular Gunk: Crunching the Numbers. 

van Luijn, Nathasja - UK :  Just like an oil lamp: Diogenes of Apollonia’s teleological view of the rise of Nile. 

Vieira, Celso - Germany : Ordinary Examples as Exploratory Models in Heraclitus. 

Viltanioti, Irini-Fotini - Greece : Why does Sphairos not have two branches? Empedocles' fr. 29 and 134 DK.

Volpe, Enrico - Italy : La presenza di Parmenide nel Medioplatonismo. Il caso di Numenio.

Wash, Leon - USA : Empedocles’ Definition of Wine (fr. 81). 

Wellmann, Tom - Germany : Empedocles on the First Human Beings. 

White, Stephen - USA : Theocracy and Demiurgic Creation in Pherecydes.

Wians, William - USA : Xenophanes the Sophist?

Zavota, Gina - USA : Elemental: The Status of the Four Roots in Empedocles’ Ontology. 

Zehner, Joseph - USA : Craft, Chance, and Birth: Aphrodite in Empedocles. 

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