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The eighth Keeling colloquium, on Self-Knowledge in Ancient Philosophy, will take place on 11-13 November 2009.
Provisional timetable:
Wednesday 11 November
10.30-1 M.M. McCabe (King’s College London) From the cradle to the cave: what happened to self-knowledge in the Republic?
Respondent: Amber Carpenter (York)
3-6 Aryeh Kosman (Haverford) Self-knowledge and self-control in the Charmides: the self as object and companion
Respondent: Amber Carpenter (York)Thursday 12 November
10-1 Melissa Lane (Princeton) Weakness of virtue, not will: Plato on self-knowledge and akrasia
Respondent: Miriam Leonard (UCL)
3-6 Tad Brennan (Cornell) Reading Plato’s Mind
Respondent: Miriam Leonard (UCL)Friday 13 November
10-1 Jean-Baptiste Gourinat (Paris) Self-perception and perception of one’s body in Stoicism
Respondent: Chris Gill (Exeter)
3-6 Gwenaëlle Aubry (Paris) An alternative to Cartesianism? Plotinus’s theory of the Self and its posterity in Ralph Cudworth
Respondent: Chris Gill (Exeter)The meetings on Wednesday and Thursday will be in room 106, first floor, Gordon House (entry from Gordon Street). The Friday meetings will be in the Garden Room on the ground floor of the Bernard Katz building; entry is simplest from Gower Street, and when you reach the "auto-icon" of Jeremy Bentham, it’s through the doors just beside him.
No registration or prior notification is required from those attending; please just turn up. Apart from speakers and respondents, those attending are asked to make their own arrangements for meals, and for accommodation if required.
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