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- 2024 Annual Meeting Program
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Conference Registration and Travel Information
The Registration Link is now live for the 2024 meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society in Toronto. Here is some useful travel information for the event: Transportation from Toronto Airports to Hotel: -There are two airports servicing the Toronto area: Pearson International Airport (which is about a half hour’s car ride from downtown Toronto), and Billy Bishop Airport (which is within the city limits). -To get to the Chelsea Hotel from Pearson Airport, you can . . . Read More
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The Routledge Handbook of Women and Ancient Greek Philosophy
Edited by Sara Brill, Catherine McKeen, The Routledge Handbook of Women and Ancient Greek Philosophy is an essential reference source for cutting-edge scholarship on women, gender, and philosophy in Greek antiquity. The volume features original research that crosses disciplines, offering readers an accessible guide to new methods, new sources, and new questions in the study of ancient Greek philosophy and its multiple afterlives. Comprising 40 chapters from a diverse international group of experts, the Handbook considers questions about women and gender . . . Read More
- Join APS and International Plato Society Virtual Conference
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Annual Meeting Accommodations
The booking link is ready for the upcoming 2024 meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society. We have a group block booking at the Chelsea Hotel, one block from the conference venue. The group rate applies from Wednesday April 3rd through to Saturday April 7th. There are two room types to choose from at that rate – One Queen or Two Doubles – and these can be booked using this Hotel Link. This automatically enters the group discount code (TMU040324). Bookings . . . Read More
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Soul and Life: Psyche in Seminal Ancient Greek Thinkers
SOUL AND LIFE brings together essays on Greek ontology, psychology, politics, and theories of soul in Socratic thought, Plato, Aristotle, and Herodotus. Among the included perspectives, there is the recognition in common that the soul (psyche) is not a mere hypostatization or reification of the object of cognitive studies. Instead, these essays attempt to understand the soul as distinguished by life itself and as setting out ways of being in the world. The essays in . . . Read More
- Call for Abstracts: Plato’s Lysis
Plato’s Lysis: A Virtual Conference Jointly Sponsored by The Ancient Philosophy Society for the Study of Ancient Greek and Roman Thought and The International Plato Society (Asia, Africa, and Australia Regions) June 13-14, 2024 We are pleased to solicit abstracts for a conference jointly sponsored by the Ancient Philosophy Society and the International Plato Society, to be held remotely from June 13-14, 2024. The purpose of this meeting is to foster dialogue between scholars in . . . Read More
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Heidegger and the Destruction of Aristotle: On How to Read the Tradition
For Martin Heidegger, our inherited traditions provide the concepts through which we make our world intelligible. Concepts we can also oppose, disrupt, and even exceed. First, however, if Western philosophy is our inheritance, we must submit it to Destruktion —starting with Aristotle. Heidegger and the Destruction of On How to Read the Tradition presents a new conception of Heidegger’s “destruction” as a way of reading. Situated between Nietzschean genealogy and Derridean deconstruction, this method uncovers . . . Read More