Speakers
 

MONDAY January 9

9:30-11:00
Chair 1: MICHAEL CHASE
"Studies in pre-Platonic demiurgy.
The case of Pherecydes of Syros"

FLAVIA MARCACCI
"Thales, teacher of measurements"

11:10-12:30
DANIEL W. GRAHAM
"On the Astronomy of Philolaus"

TIBERIU POPA
"The Hippocratics and the
Phusiologoi on Material Powers"

12:45-14:00
ALEXANDER P.D. MOURELATOS
"Disorientation, hyperbaton, and
katabasis in Parmenides B1"

16:00-17:00
Chair 2: NÉSTOR LUIS CORDERO
"Parménides: dos puntos de vista
acerca de la misma realidad"

17:15-18:35
BARBARA CASSIN
"Le rire de Démocrite, ou le den
comme passager clandestin de l'ontologie"

JEAN SALEM
"Democritus: Motes in a sunbeam"

18:45-20:00
Chair 3: CRISTOPHER KURFESS
"Verity's Intrepid Heart: The Variants
in Parmenides, DK B1.29 (and 8.4)"

THOMAS M. ROBINSON
"The 'Canons' of Parmenides: Some Queries"

TUESDAY January 10

9:00-11:00
Chair 4: NIE MIN LI 
"Several Aspects of Comparison Between
Presocratic Philosophy and Ancient Chinese Philosophy"

JAMES GARRISON
"Pythagoras & Plato: Outer, Inner, Being,
Becoming, Perfect Numbers, and an Imperfect World"

GABRIELE CORNELLI
"What must be saved in Pythagorean Traditions?"

11:10-12:30
Chair 5: PATRICIA CURD 
"Xenophanes and Heraclitus on the 
Divine and the Knowable"

FERNANDO SANTORO
"Le Carnaval de Xénophane"

12:45-14:00
ALBERTO BERNABÉ 
"The Commentary of the Derveni Papyrus:
Presocratic Cosmogonies at Work"

16:00-17:20
Chair 6: ANDREW GREGORY
"Parmenides and Cosmology"

ARNAUD MACÉ 
"Parmenide et l'invention de la nature"

17:30-18:50
FRANCESC CASADESÚS 
"¿Por qué a la naturaleza le gusta 
ocultarse? Heráclito DK B 123"

PIERRE DESTRÉE 
"Heraclitus on Laughter"

19:00-20:20
Chair 7: MARIANA ANAGNOSTOPOULOS 
"Parmenides' Non-being: Void, Unreality, 
and the Limits of Logical Space"

BERNARDO BERRUECOS 
"En los caminos alados del sueño. Parménides 
y la metáfora del dormir y el despertar"

WEDNESDAY January 11

9:00-11:00
Chair 8: GABRIEL DANZIG 
"Hierarchical ontological ethical relativism in Heraclitus"

MARTIM REYES COSTA 
"Experience, learning and knowledge: 
Heraclitus by Sextus Empiricus"

CAROLINA SÁNCHEZ CASTRO 
"Consideraciones sobre una posible reminiscencia 
del fragmento 25 de Heráclito en el Cratilo de Platón"

11:10-12:30
Chair 9: SERGE MARGEL
"L'Un, le Multiple et la Mort, ou la naissance de la 
pensée tragique. Hölderlin lecteur d'Empédocle"

MICHAEL SHAW 
"The Paradox of Strife"

12:40-14:00
Chair 10: MA. TERESA PADILLA 
"Researching for some metaphysical principles
in Empedocles' Philosophy of Nature"

MARCO SANTAMARÍA
"Empedocles' Age of Cypris: antecedents and parallels"

THURSDAY January 12

9:00-11:00
Chair 11: NICOLE OOMS
"Parmenides' epistemology, once more"

EMESE MOGYORODI
"The Thesis of Parmenides: Notes on the 
Common-Sensical Interpretation of fr. 3"

GABRIELA CURSARU
"Figures mythiques du voyage visionnaire 
dans le Proème de Parménide"

11:10-12:30
Chair 12 MARIANNE GARIN
"The possibility of a philosophical meta-discourse
behind "I" and "you" in the Fragments of Heraclitus"

CELSO VIEYRA
"Bow composition in Heraclitus of Ephesus"

12:45-14:00
Chair 13: ANDRÉ LAKS
"Three Pre-Socratic Eschatologies:
A Speculative Reading of Parmenides, Anaxagoras,
and Empedocles about the Future of the World"

16:00-17:10
Chair 14: RICHARD MCKIRAHAN
"Teleology in the Presocratics"

RICARDO SALLES
"Tension, soul and harmony. Pythagorean themes
in Stoic cosmology and philosophy of mind"

17:25-18:35
Chair 15: SIMON TRÉPANIER
"The Gods of the first philosophers 
in the market-place of ideas"

OMAR ÁLVAREZ
"The eye of the mind in flight:
some remarks on Parmenides 28 B 4 DK."

18:50-20:00 
Chair 16: ARNOLD HERMANN
"Quantum Presocratics"

SCOTT AUSTIN
"From Parmenides to Proclus on One and Many"

FRIDAY January 13

9:00-11:00
Chair 17: MIRIAM PEIXOTO
"The visible and the invisible in Democritean Atomism"

MICHAEL AUGUSTIN
"Atomism and euthumoi souls:
An attempt at a physical interpretation
of Democritus fr. B191"

BEATRIZ BOSSI
"Democritus and Plato on measure and pleasure"

11:15-14:15
MICHAEL FOURNIER
"Gorgias on Magic"

GIOVANNI CASSERTANO
"Linguaggio, realtà e verità in Gorgia"

RUBY BLONDELL
"Gorgias and the Female Psyche"

16:00-17:20
Chair 19: THOMAS M. TUOZZO
"Critias on Nomos and Physis"

ANNIE HOURCADE
"Aspects de la pratique conseillère d'Antiphon d'Athènes:
sumbouleuein et techne alupias"

17:35-18:55
ROBERT ZABOROWSKI
"Is Protagoras a relativist?"

ADAM BERESFORD
"Antiphon and Thrasymachus: Presocratic Naturalism 
and the Non-Existence of Ancient Amoralism"

19:00-20:00
IAPS Assembly

SATURDAY January 14TH
OPTIONAL VISIT TO THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL
SITE OF UXMAL (ALL DAY)