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9th Conference of the International Association for Presocratic Studies
Madrid 22 - 26 Juin 2026
Participants
(In person)
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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”.
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8. Bares Partal, Juan de Dios (Universidad de Valencia).
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”.
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14. Castelli, Arianna. “Light, Night, and Memory: Understanding Parmenidean Cognition”.
15. Chaturvedi, Aditi. “Resituating Heraclitean Harmoniē”.
16. 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”.
17. Costa, Alexandre. “Parmenides, theory of names”.
18. Crespo Saumell, Jordi. “Democritus and Heraclitus on Elpis”.
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19. Degutis, Mykolas. “Bridging the Gap Between Gods and Humans: Pherecydes’ Nuptial Myth and Epimenides’ Divine Origins of Society”.
20. d’Ippolito, Armando Francesco. “Perì Puròs kaì Phōtós: Evidence for the Presence and Evolution of a Physics of Light from the Presocratics to Plato”.
21. Di Maio, Chiara. “Anchoring Sophistic thought in the Greek tradition: Anaxagoras, Empedocles, Democritus and their Athenian followers”.
22. Duque, Mateo. “Still Is Still Moving to Me”: Parmenidean Being, the Block universe, and McTaggart’s B-Series”.
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23. Esquivel Esquivel, Juan Carlos. “Aenesidemus on Heraclitus”.
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24. Ferella, Chiara. “What—or Who—is Anaximander’s Apeiron? Rethinking the Infinite as a Primordial Deity”.
25. Ferro, Francesco. “DK 28B1.2: the ὁδὸς πολύφημος as the Path of the Announcement”.
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26. Gimenes de Campos, Rogério. “The inclination of the Heavens: Revisiting Oenopides of Chios”.
27. Gregory, Andrew. “Parmenides, Sufficient Reason and the Identity of Indiscernibles”.
28. Guerrieri, Marco. “Investigating the MXG (On Melissus Xenophanes Gorgias)”.
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29. Herrero de Jáuregui, Miguel. “Tatian as neos (anti-)Heraclitus”.
30. Hladký, Vojtěch. “Francesco Patrizi on Early Greek Philosophy”.
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Isidoro Giráldez, Emilio (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distan
31. Iuliano, Lorenzo. “The Presocratic Philosophers and Ennius: The Emergence of The Latin Air”.
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32. Jacob, Dawn. (University of Colorado)
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33. Keoseyan, Benjamin. “Eunomia and the Decline into Tyranny in Anonymous Iamblichi: A Socratic Precursor to Plato”.
34. Kidd, Stephen. “Democritus and the Origin of “Self-Evidence” (to enarges) in Philosophy”.
35. Kočandrle, Radim. “The Influence of Parmenides on Aristotle’s conception of spherical Earth”.
36. Kraus, Manfred. “Gorgias, Logos and Hippocratic Medicine”.
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37. Lea, Luke. “What Would Grow from a Buried Bed? Antiphon on Nomos and Phusis”.
38. Llorente Pescador, Manuel. “The Lyrical Tradition of pre-Socratic Ethics: Theognis, Heraclitus, and Parmenides”.
39. Loureiro Conte, Bruno. “Plutarch and Parmenides”.
40. Lugani, Giorgia. “Catching Protagoras: Plato’s Pursuit of a Moving Target”.
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41. Macé, Arnaud. “Potential and actual infinity in the division of bodies from Zeno to the Atomists”.
42. Machín, Deyvis Deniz. “La atribución de la doctrina aire-dios a Diógenes de Apolonia”.
43. Macris, Constantinos. “Pythagoras in Byzantium: Exploring the Anonymous Life of Pythagoras preserved in Patriarch Photius’ Myriobiblos”.
44. Malaspina, Iulia. “La verità secondo Parmenide”.
45. Martínez Cordone, Alberto. “Readressing Lucas Holstenius’ edition of Democrates’ Gnomai (1638)”.
46. Matera, Rosa. “On Democritus and the principle of plenitude”.
47. Matusova, Ekaterina. “Sophistic theories of language in the Derveni Papyrus”.
48. Mazzanti, Leonardo. “Zeno’s Argument Against Plurality and the Case for Existence Monism”.
49. Ménard, Étienne. “The Cosmology of Exhalations in Ionian Philosophy”.
50. Menezes da Costa, Michel (Instituto Federal da Bahia / Universidade de Brasília)
51. Mesquita, António Pedro. “On What There is Not. Protagoras on the Impossibility of Falsehood and Contradiction.”.
52. Molina Alonso, Pablo. “Between Affection and Relativism: The Cyrenaic School and the Doctrine of the Secret Students of Protagoras in Plato’s Theaetetus”.
53. Montagnino, Marco. “The numerological vision of Athena in the proem of Parmenides’ poem”.
54. Moretti, Matteo. “How Epicurean is Democritus? Telos, Eudaimonia, Hedonism, and Imperturbability in Democritus’ Ethics”.
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55. Nakayama, Patricia. “The power of convention: Democritus, Thomas Hobbes, and the birth of experimental science”.
56. Navarro González, Ángela-Bares Partal, Juan de Dios. “Heráclito y la tradición del enigma”.
57. Németh, Attila. “Rhythmic Reconfiguration and Compatibilist Agency in Democritus”.
58. Nicolaides, Demetris. "Crystallized Space and Frozen Time: The Universes of Physicist Parmenides and Philosopher Einstein".
59. Nogueira Fontes, Luis Marcio. “[Melissus], DK30B9”.
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60. Pajón Leyra, Ignacio. “Parménides y Gorgias en las raíces del escepticismo”.
61. Pavani, Anna. “Nous ex machina? Plato’s Socrates and Aristotle on Anaxagoras alleged “unintelligent intellect” ”.
62. Peixoto, Miriam. “Between hubris and pleonexia: the faces of excess in Democritus' ethics”.
63. Pitteloud, Luca. “La Nature aime à se cacher : Rilke, Ramuz et l’écho moderne d’un fragment d’Héraclite”.
64. Pompei, Diletta. “The Role of the Seven Sages in Stobaeus’ Anthologion: A Connection between Archaic Philosophy and Neoplatonic Ethics”.
65. Pulpito, Massimo. “A New Fragment of Zeno of Elea”.
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66. Rajcic, Nina (University of Copenhagen)
67. Rehbinder, André (Université Paris-Nanterre)
68. Reus Engler, Maicon. (Universidade Federal do Paraná)
69. Russo Gómez, Alessandro (Universidad de Valencia)
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70. Sánchez Castro, Liliana Carolina (Universidad Nacional de Colombia)
71. Santaniello, Carlo (Independent Scholar)
72. Sattler, Barbara (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
73. Saudelli, Lucia (Université de Montpellier Paul Valéry)
74. Scharle, Margaret (Reed College, United States)
75. Shaw, Michael M. (Utah Valley University)
76. Sider, David (New York University)
77. Šćepanović, Sandra (University of Belgrade)
78. Sperzagni, Nicholas (Universitat de Barcelona)
79. Stamatiou, Filippos (University of Copenhagen)
80. Strauss Clay, Jenny (University of Virginia)
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81. Thanassas, Panagiotis (National Kapodistrian University of Athens)
82. Theodoroudi, Lia (University of Crete)
83. Torrente, Luca (Aix-Marseille Université)
84. Torrijos-Castrillejo, David. “Mythology and Anaxagoras’ σπέρματα”.
85. Trovato, Luigi (Università degli Studi di Catania)
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86. Valentino, Giulia (Scuola Superiore Meridionale)
87. Valentinová, Lucie (University of Pardubice, Czech Republic)
88. Vergouli, Vasia (Anatolia American University)
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89. Wang, Yu (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
90. Wrotkowski, Wojciech (The Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish
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91. Zamora Calvo, José María (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
Participants
(online)
92. Feldman, Sarah (University of Ottawa).
93. Heinemann, Gottfried (University of Kassel).
94. Höchsmann, Hyun (East China Normal University).
95. Lebedev, Andrei (University of Crete)
96. Mogyoródi, Emese (University of Szeged).
97. Padilla, Teresa (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México).
98. Perricone, Fabio (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna).
99. Piangerelli, Federica (University of Macerata).
100. Provenza, Antonietta (University of Palermo).
101. Ramón Cámara, Begoña (Universidad de Murcia).
102. Taglialatela, Giovanni (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg).
Organizing committee
Marco Antonio Santamaría (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) (chair)
Alberto Bernabé (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Ana Isabel Jiménez San Cristóbal (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Ignacio Pajón Leyra (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Haris Papoulias (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Scientific committee
(members of the Board of the IAPS)
Richard McKirahan (Pomona College)
Stephen A. White (The University of Texas at Austin).
Sattler, Barbara (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Macé, Arnaud. (Marie and Louis Pasteur University)
Simon Trépanier (University of Edinburgh)
Stefania Giombini (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Berruecos Frank, Bernardo (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México).
