Action, Life and Happiness: A Colloquium 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'

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