Understanding Agency

Action, Life and Happiness: A Colloqium in Ancient Philosophy

Department of Philosophy, Uppsala University
May 28-30, 2009
English Park Campus
organised by the Understanding Agency programme and funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond

Thursday 28 May (Room, Eng 2-1077)
10.00 Opening words

10.15-11.30 Gösta Grönroos (Stockholm): 'Aristotle on Reason and Motivation'

coffee

12.00-13.15 Karen M. Nielsen (Western Ontario): 'Aristotle on Deliberation'

lunch

14.45-16.00 Erik Eliasson (Uppsala): 'Voluntary Action in the Didascalicus'

coffee

16.30-17.45 Frans Svensson (Uppsala & Arizona): 'The Primacy of the Virtuous Reconsidered'

18.00 Reception at the Philosophy Department (Engelska parken)

Friday 29 May (Room, Eng 2-1024)
10.15-11.30 John Cooper (Princeton): 'The Stoic Way of Life'

11.30-12.45 Gretchen Reydams-Schils (Notre Dame): 'Authority and Agency in Roman Stoicism'

lunch

14.15-15.30 Tony Long (Berkeley): 'Plotinus, Ennead 1.4, as Critical Commentary on the Eudaimonist Tradition'

coffee

16.00-17.15 Pauliina Remes (Uppsala): 'Inverting the Order of Priority: Plotinus and Simplicius on Action'

Saturday 30 May (Room, Eng 2-1024)
10.15-11.30 John Cooper (Princeton): 'Aristotle and Philosophy as a Way of Life'

Welcome!

For more information, please contact
erik.eliasson@filosofi.uu.se, or
pauliina.remes@filosofi.uu.se.