Joint event sponsored by the Brady Scholars Program and Philosophy department. Open to the public, no registration required.
11:00am - 555 Clark St., Room B03
Barbara Sattler Lecturer in philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of St. Andrews (http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/philosophy/dept/staffprofiles/?staffid=228)
"Ancient Notions of Time" - In this paper I attempt to show how the understanding of time changed dramatically in the thought of writers at the very beginning of the Western tradition. Early Greek literature – philosophical and non-philosophical – offers an unusually rich collection of philosophically interesting temporal structures, many of which are of special value in enabling us to identify and understand a wide range of subjective experiences of time. I attempt to excavate some of this diverse array of temporal notions and their explanatory power for everyday temporal experiences, before I try to show how certain demands from philosophers led, in the end, to the formation of a unified notion of time.
4:00pm - University Hall, Romm 102
Sarah Broadie Professor of Moral Philosophy and Wardlaw Professor (http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/philosophy/dept/staffprofiles/?staffid=93)
"Plato and Aristotle on the Theoretical Impulse" - The paper explores what we can learn from the comparison. Aristotle's distinction seems clean and canonical; Plato's (if he even has one) anything but. What to make of all this?
Reception immediately following in Crowe Hall 1-140
Jasmine Hatten
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