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Plato's Timaeus: The Conference (UIUC)

Plato's Timaeus: The Conference. Sept. 13-16, 2007, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

The Departments of the Classics and Philosophy, UIUC, are mounting an
international, interdisciplinary conference, "Life, the Universe,
Everything -- and More: Plato's Timaeus Today." Prompted by the
explosion of critical interest in the dialogue since the turn of the
millennium, the conference will address all of its aspects -- its
theology, metaphysics, cosmology, science, psychology, ethics, literary
aspects, and reception in the history of ideas.

Keynote speakers:

Prof. Alexander Nehamas (Philosophy and Comparative Literature, Princeton)
Sir Anthony Leggett (2003 Nobel Laureate for Physics)
Prof. Anthony Vidler (Dean of the School of Architecture, the Cooper Union)

Additional speakers:

Gabor Betegh (Philosophy, CEU, Budapest)
Ann Bergren (Classics, UCLA)
Justin Broackes (Philosophy, Brown)
Sarah Broadie (Philosophy, St. Andrews)
Myles Burnyeat (Philosophy, Oxford)
Sean Carroll (Physics, Cal Tech)
Gabriela Roxana Carone (Philosophy, U. Colorado)
John Dillon (Classics, Trinity, Dublin)
Zina Giannopoulou (Classics, U. Cal-Irvine)
Verity Harte (Philosophy, Yale)
Katerina Ierodiakonou (Philosophy, U. Athens)
Thomas Kjeller Johansen (Philosophy, Oxford)
Charles Kahn (Philosophy, U. Penn)
Anthony Long (Classics, U. Cal-Berkeley)
Stephen Menn (Philosophy, McGill)
Mitchell Miller (Philosophy, Vassar)
Kathryn Morgan (Classics, UCLA)
Alexander Mourelatos (Philosophy, U. Texas-Austin)
Ian Mueller (Philosophy, U. Chicago)
Gretchen Reydams-Schils (Liberal Studies, Notre Dame)
Thomas M. Robinson (Philosophy and Classics, U. Toronto)
Allan Silverman (Philosophy, Ohio State)
Matthias Vorwerk (Philosophy, CUA)
Donald Zeyl (Philosophy, U. Rhode Island)

For the program, registration, transportation, and housing information,
conference organizers Richard D. Mohr and Barbara M. Sattler invite
you to visit our website www.timaeus.uiuc.edu.

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