top of page

Big Title

9th Conference of the International Association for Presocratic Studies
Madrid 22 - 26 Juin 2026

Accepted Papers

 

 

A

1. Aguirre De la Luz, Nazyheli. “The Peripatetic outlook on Democritus’ theory of perception”.

2. Albano, Nicolò. “The false Musaeus. An interpretation of Onomacritus' Orakelfälschung (Hdt VII 6, 2-5)”.

3. Aleknienė, Tatjana. “Plato, Phaedo 95e–101e: A Turning Point from Presocratic Physics to Socratic Ethics”.

4. Alevizos, Konstantinos. “Necessità contro predeterminismo nel libro XXV sulla natura di Epicuro”.

5. Álvarez Salas, Omar D. “A cognitive approach to the “mind” in Xenophanes and related thinkers”.

6. Álvarez-Maldonado, Lucas. “The First Greek Plant Physiologist: Empedocles’Botanical Theory”.

7. Audié, Prudence. “Plutarch’s Dionysian Empedocles”.

B

8. Begley, Keith – Wash, Leon. “Rhyme and its conceptual motivations in Heraclitus and Empedocles”.

9. Bergamo, Max. “Heraclitus, Homer, and the Lice: A Reassessment of Fragment 22 B56 DK (with Additional Greek and Syriac Evidence)”.

10. Bernabé, Alberto. “Truth, Opinions and the Path of What Is. Conceptual Clarifications in Parmenides”.

11. Berruecos Frank, Bernardo. “Eleatism outside the “Eleatic school”. The Reception of Parmenides' Poem in Archaic Choral Poetry”.

12. Bevacqua, Flavio. “A Prattler of Stupidities”: A First Assessment of Democritus(?) on Cosmic Sympathy (68 B300 DK)”.

13. Brémond, Mathilde. “Catalogues of opinions: the Sophistic heritage”.

14. Brinati, Daniela. “Playing Gorgias’ laborious game”.

15. Buldrini Barreto, Henrique. “The νόμος-φύσις debate and the reduction of medical art to chance in De arte”.

 

C

16. Calmon, Félix. “Aristote et la noétique d’Anaxagore. Présence d’Anaxagore dans le DA III.4”.

17. Castelli, Arianna. “Light, Night, and Memory: Understanding Parmenidean Cognition”.

18. Chaturvedi, Aditi. “Resituating Heraclitean Harmoniē”.

19. Clay, Jenny Strauss. “Moons and Wombs in Parmenides’ Doxa”.

20. Cordero, Néstor-Luis. “Une faute tragique: de la δόξα chez Parménide à la δόξα de Parménide” / “A tragic mistake: from δόξα in Parmenides to Parmenides' δόξα”.

21. Cornelli, Gabriele. “Who can be considered Pythagorean among the early Greek philosophers?”.

22. Costa, Alexandre. “Parmenides, theory of names”.

23. Culbreth, Andrew. “Democritus and Heraclitus on Elpis”.

D

24. da Costa, Menezes. “O Papiro de Derveni e o início da tradição de interpretação alegórica”.

25. Degutis, Mykolas. “Bridging the Gap Between Gods and Humans: Pherecydes’ Nuptial Myth and Epimenides’ Divine Origins of Society”.

26. d’Ippolito, Armando Francesco. “Perì Puròs kaì Phōtós: Evidence for the Presence and Evolution of a Physics of Light from the Presocratics to Plato”.

27. Di Maio, Chiara. “Anchoring Sophistic thought in the Greek tradition: Anaxagoras, Empedocles, Democritus and their Athenian followers”.

28. Díez-Platas, Fátima. “Descifrar la belleza: sobre pensamiento estético en los filósofos presocráticos”.

29. Duque, Mateo. “Still Is Still Moving to Me”: Parmenidean Being, the Block universe, and McTaggart’s B-Series”.

 

E

30. Esquivel Esquivel, Juan Carlos. “Aenesidemus on Heraclitus”.

 

F

31. Feldman, Sarah. “Semonides Fragment 1 and the “Negative” Solution to Epistemic Limits”.

32. Ferella, Chiara. “What—or Who—is Anaximander’s Apeiron? Rethinking the Infinite as a Primordial Deity”.

33. Ferro, Francesco. “DK 28B1.2: the ὁδὸς πολύφημος as the Path of the Announcement”.

34. Figueira, Ana Rita. “Two Negatives Equals Positive: A Contribute of Attic vase painting for the Problem of (Non)Being in Parmenides”.

35. Fortes, Fabio. “Ancient thinkers to describe the art of logos in Plato’s Phaedrus”.

36. Franchi, Leonardo. “Reassessing Mortals’ Error in Parmenides 28 B 6. 8–9 DK through Porphyry”.

 

G

37. Gimenes de Campos, Rogério. “The inclination of the Heavens: Revisiting Oenopides of Chios”.

38. Giráldez, Emilio Isidoro. “La interpretación aristotélica de los argumentos de Zenón como paralogismos”.

39. Gregory, Andrew. “Parmenides, Sufficient Reason and the Identity of Indiscernibles”.

40. Guerrieri, Marco. “Investigating the MXG (On Melissus Xenophanes Gorgias)”.

 

H

41. Heinemann, Gottfried. “Phusis in Early Greek Philosophy”.

42. Herrero de Jáuregui, Miguel. “Tatian as neos (anti-)Heraclitus”.

43. Hladký, Vojtěch. “Francesco Patrizi on Early Greek Philosophy”.

44. Höchsmann, Hyun. “Empedocles, Hölderlin, and Nietzsche – The Metamorphosis of Empedocles from a ‘Philosophical Centaur’ to a Philosophical Phoenix”.

 

I

45. Iuliano, Lorenzo. “The Presocratic Philosophers and Ennius: The Emergence of The Latin Air”.

 

J

46. Jacob, Dawn. “Was Democritus A Eudaimonist?”.

 

K

47. Keoseyan, Benjamin. “Eunomia and the Decline into Tyranny in Anonymous Iamblichi: A Socratic Precursor to Plato”.

48. Kidd, Stephen. “Democritus and the Origin of “Self-Evidence” (to enarges) in Philosophy”.

49. Kočandrle, Radim. “The Influence of Parmenides on Aristotle’s conception of spherical Earth”.

50. Kraus, Manfred. “Gorgias, Logos and Hippocratic Medicine”.

 

L

51. Lea, Luke. “What Would Grow from a Buried Bed? Antiphon on Nomos and Phusis”.

52. Llorente Pescador, Manuel. “The Lyrical Tradition of pre-Socratic Ethics: Theognis, Heraclitus, and Parmenides”.

53. Loureiro Conte, Bruno. “Plutarch and Parmenides”.

54. Lugani, Giorgia. “Catching Protagoras: Plato’s Pursuit of a Moving Target”.

 

M

55. Macé, Arnaud. “Potential and actual infinity in the division of bodies from Zeno to the Atomists”.

56. Machín, Deyvis Deniz. “La atribución de la doctrina aire-dios a Diógenes de Apolonia”.

57. Macris, Constantinos. “Pythagoras in Byzantium: Exploring the Anonymous Life of Pythagoras preserved in Patriarch Photius’ Myriobiblos”.

58. Malaspina, Iulia. “La verità secondo Parmenide”.

259. Marín Garzón, Alba. “La sabiduría práctica de los presocráticos: el concepto de sophia en los siglos VI y V a.C.”.

60. Martínez Cordone, Alberto. “Readressing Lucas Holstenius’ edition of Democrates’ Gnomai (1638)”.

61. Matera, Rosa. “On Democritus and the principle of plenitude”.

62. Matusova, Ekaterina. “Sophistic theories of language in the Derveni Papyrus”.

63. Mazzanti, Leonardo. “Zeno’s Argument Against Plurality and the Case for Existence Monism”.

64. Ménard, Étienne. “The Cosmology of Exhalations in Ionian Philosophy”.

65. Mesquita, António Pedro. “On What There is Not. Protagoras on the Impossibility of Falsehood and Contradiction.”.

66. Molina Alonso, Pablo. “Between Affection and Relativism: The Cyrenaic School and the Doctrine of the Secret Students of Protagoras in Plato’s Theaetetus”.

67. Montagnino, Marco. “The numerological vision of Athena in the proem of Parmenides’ poem”.

68. Moretti, Matteo. “How Epicurean is Democritus? Telos, Eudaimonia, Hedonism, and Imperturbability in Democritus’ Ethics”.

69. Mogyoródi, Emese. “ ‘Disclosure’, Poetry and Philosophy in Parmenides: The Journey, the Chasm and ‘Erotic Mysticism’ in the Proem”.

 

N

70. Nakayama, Patricia. “The power of convention: Democritus, Thomas Hobbes, and the birth of experimental science”.

71. Navarro González, Ángela-Bares Partal, Juan de Dios. “Heráclito y la tradición del enigma”.

72. Németh, Attila. “Rhythmic Reconfiguration and Compatibilist Agency in Democritus”.

73. Nieva, José María. “Demócrito o el arte de vivir bien”.

74. Nogueira Fontes, Luis Marcio. “[Melissus], DK30B9”.

 

P

75. Padilla, Teresa. “La φύσις de Anaxágoras como modelo inteligente, ordenado, evolutivo y expansivo del Universo” / “Anaxagoras’ φύσις as an intelligent, ordered, evolutionary and expansive of the Universe”.

76. Pajón Leyra, Ignacio. “Parménides y Gorgias en las raíces del escepticismo”.

77. Pavani, Anna. “Nous ex machina? Plato’s Socrates and Aristotle on Anaxagoras alleged “unintelligent intellect” ”.

78. Peixoto, Miriam. “Between hubris and pleonexia: the faces of excess in Democritus' ethics”.

79. Perricone, Fabio. “Death and Ethics in Democritus’ Thanatology: A Possible Reconstruction”.

80. Piangerelli, Federica. “Parmenides, Zeno, and the Eleatic Stranger. A “Philosophical Lineage” in Plato’s Sophist?”.

81. Piergiacomi, Enrico. “Anaxarchus against Divination. An Anti-Democritean Polemic?”.

82. Pitteloud, Luca. “La Nature aime à se cacher : Rilke, Ramuz et l’écho moderne d’un fragment d’Héraclite”.

83. Pompei, Diletta. “The Role of the Seven Sages in Stobaeus’ Anthologion: A Connection between Archaic Philosophy and Neoplatonic Ethics”.

84. Provenza, Antonietta. “Paths of perception. Alcmaeon, Philolaus and Aristoxenus on aisthēsis and hearing”.

85. Pulpito, Massimo. “A New Fragment of Zeno of Elea”.

 

R

86. Ramón Cámara, Begoña. “On the Role Played by the Book of Anaxagoras in Plato’s Phaedo and Timaeus”.

87. Rehbinde, André. “The Influence of Logos on the Soul: Gorgias, Empedocles and the Hippocratic Collection”.

88. Reus Engler, Maicon. “Gorgias and the Alteration of Consciousness: On the Effect of Lógos”.

89. Russo Gómez, Alessandro. “La «inocencia del devenir»: Anaxágoras y Heráclito interpretados por Nietzsche”.

S

90. Sánchez Castro, Liliana Carolina. “Heraclitus in dialogue with contemporary environmental philosophy”.

91. Santaniello, Carlo. “Presocratic Echoes: Looking for One’s Words in Others’ Works”.

92. Sattler, Barbara. “Void in early Pythagoreanism”.

93. Saudelli, Lucia. “A concept of freedom in Presocratic philosophy?”.

94. Saumell, Jordi Crespo. “What Did You Watch: Everything Is Illuminated or The Man with the Ray Eyes?”.

95. Scharle, Margaret. “Hesiodic Roots of Heraclitus’s Fire and Logos”.

96. Shaw, Michael M. “Infinite Problems in Anaxagoras”.

97. Sider, David. “Parmenides’ Proem: Sources, Language, and Purpose”.

98. Sisko, John E. “A Non-Teleological Interpretation of Anaxagoras’ Theory of Nous”.

99. Šćepanović, Sandra. “Negative Temporal Clauses in Presocratic Fragments”.

100. Sperzagni, Nicholas. “Connecting cosmos and reproduction according to the Presocratics”.

101. Stamatiou, Filippos – Rajcic, Nina - Elizabeth Scott, Ava. “Aletheia and Algorithms: Parmenides’ Lessons for Understanding Generative AI”.

 

T

102. Taglialatela, Giovanni. “Timonischer Philosophenspott als Linse auf die Vorsokratiker”.

103. Thanassas, Panagiotis. “Heraclitus B 114: A Re-examination”.

104. Theodoroudi, Lia. “Don’t think of me as a patricide: Plato’s Sophist as a reinterpretation of Parmenides’ On Nature”.

105. Torrente, Luca. “The invention of the history of philosophy: Theophrastus, the forgotten founder”.

106. Torrijos-Castrillejo, David. “Mythology and Anaxagoras’ σπέρματα”.

107. Trovato, Luigi. “Two forgotten testimonies on the Anaxagorean Noûs: Damascius (In Prm. I, 15.1-6 [Combès-Westerink]) and Proclus (In Prm. VII, 1214.8-9 [Cousin])”.

 

U

108. Ustiantsev, Román. “Parmenides in Spanish: García Bacca, Pérez de Tudela, and Padilla Gálvez on the Poem on Nature”.

109. Ustinova, Iulia. “The Italian Presocratics and Healing”.

V

110. Valentino, Giulia. “The transmigration of the soul from Presocratic doctrines to the Orphic Rhapsodies”.

111. Valentinová, Lucie. “Minoan Visual Culture and the Image of Okeanos”.

112. Vergouli, Vasia. “How and why Plato and Aristotle see teleology where the Presocratics might not?”.

 

W

113. Wang, Yu. “Archelaus on Two Stages of Human Origin and Moral Conventionalism”.

114. Wrotkowski, Wojciech. “On the Value of Reading Heraclitus in the Primary Sources Preserving His Fragments (B98, B67, B53)”.

 

Z

115. Zamora Calvo, José María. “Ἀυγὴ ξηρά / Lux sicca. Porfirio, intérprete de Heráclito”.

International Association for Presocratic Studies

IAPS

bottom of page