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Next Keeling Colloquium
The eighth Keeling colloquium, on Self-Knowledge in Ancient Philosophy, will be arranged by Bob Sharples and Fiona Leigh and will take place on 11-13 November 2009. Provisional timetable:
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| 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? |
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Respondent: |
Amber Carpenter (York) |
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| 3-6 | Aryeh Kosman (Haverford) | Self-knowledge and self-control in the Charmides: the self as object and companion |
| Respondent: | Amber Carpenter (York) | |
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Thursday 12 November |
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| 10-1 | Melissa Lane (Princeton) | Weakness of virtue, not will: Plato on self-knowledge and akrasia |
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Miriam Leonard (UCL) |
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| 3-6 | Tad Brennan (Cornell) | Reading Plato's Mind |
| Respondent: | Miriam Leonard (UCL) | |
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Friday 13 November |
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10-1 |
Jean-Baptiste Gourinat (Paris) | Self-perception and perception of one's body in Stoicism |
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Chris Gill (Exeter) |
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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, at D3/E3 on the college map (entry from Gordon Street). The Friday meetings will be in the Garden Room, D3 on the same map, 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; 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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