2025
American Philosophical Association
Pacific Division Meeting
San Francisco, California
April 16-19
Session Date/Time TBA
Chair: Emily Austin (Wake Forest)
"Epictetus on the Embodiment of Pious Rejoicing"
Jessica Polish (Baruch)
“Plotinus on Astral Causation"
Giulia Weißmann (Princeton)
“The Grammar of Stoic ‘Indifferents’: Aristo’s Alphabet Argument and Situation Ethics"
William Stephens (Creighton)
American Philosophical Association
Pacific Division Meeting
San Francisco, California
April 16-19
Abstracts of no more than 600 words are invited for papers to be presented at the group session of the APA Pacific. Deadline for submission is August 15, 2024.
Abstracts should be prepared for blind review and submitted here.
Each speaker will have 20-25 minutes for paper delivery, and 20 minutes for discussion. Selections will be made by August 25.
If you have not done so already, please become a member of the HPS before submitting your abstract: www.hellenisticphilsociety.org/membership
American Philosophical Association
Pacific Division Meeting
Portland, Oregon
Thursday, March 21, 6-8pm
Chair: Kelly Arenson (Duquesne)
Richard Bett (Johns Hopkins)
”Sextus Empiricus, Philosopher-Doctor:
One Vocation or Two?”
Thomas Tuozzo (University of Kansas)
”The Aristotelian Antecedent of Stoic Antecedent Causes”
Max Duboff (Yale)
”Why Our Matter Matters:
Innovation on Epicurean Philosophy of Death in DRN 3.964-71”
2024
2024
American Philosophical Association
Pacific Division Meeting
Portland, Oregon
March 20-23
Abstracts of no more than 600 words are invited for papers to be presented at the group session of the APA Pacific. Deadline for submission is August 1, 2023.
Abstracts should be prepared for blind review and submitted here.
Each speaker will have 20-25 minutes for paper delivery, and 20 minutes for discussion. Selections will be made by August 15.
If you have not done so already, please become a member of the HPS before submitting your abstract: www.hellenisticphilsociety.org/membership
2023
American Philosophical Association
Pacific Division Meeting
San Francisco, California
Thursday, April 6, 6-8pm
Chair: Clerk Shaw (Tennessee)
Sosseh Assaturian (University of Toronto)
“‘This’ and ‘That’: The Metaphysics of Stoic Indexicals”
Patricia Marechal (University of California, San Diego)
“Porphyry on the Value of Non-Human Animals:
A Teleological Argument for Vegetarianism in De Abstinentia 3”
Justin Vlasits (University of Illinois Chicago)
“The Modes of Agrippa as Argumentative Therapy”
American Philosophical Association
Pacific Division Meeting
Vancouver, British Columbia
April 13-16
Session date and time TBA
Chair: Kelly Arenson (Duquesne University)
Anna Christensen (Central College)
"Passing Quickly Through the Gates of Hades: Epicureans on Suicide"
Ian Hensley (East Tennessee State University)
"The Pantheon of Stoic Physics"
Jeremy Reid (San Francisco State University)
"Why Shouldn't I Be Angry All the Time? Seneca on Our Response to Ubiquitous Wrongdoing"
2022
American Philosophical Association
Pacific Division Meeting
San Francisco, California
April 8-12
Abstracts of no more than 600 words are invited for papers to be presented at the group session of the APA Pacific. Deadline for submission is July 31, 2019.
Abstracts should be prepared for blind review and submitted here.
Each speaker will have 20-25 minutes for paper delivery, and 20 minutes for discussion. Presenters will be notified of selections by mid-August.
If you have not done so already, please become a member of the HPS before submitting your abstract: www.hellenisticphilsociety.org/membership
2020
American Philosophical Association
Pacific Division Meeting
Vancouver, British Columbia
April 17-20
Thursday, April 18, 6:00-9:00pm
Chairs: Kelly Arenson (Duquesne University)
&
Clerk Shaw (University of Tennessee)
Michael Tremblay (Queen's University Canada)
"Digestion (Pepsis) and Moral Education in Epictetus"
Allison Pineros Glasscock (Yale)
"Education, Benefits, and the Object of Gratitude in Seneca's De Beneficiis"
Simon Shogry (Oxford)
"The Stoic Theory of Erotic Expertise"
Michael Vazquez (University of Pennsylvania)
"Cum officio selectio: A Proposal for Stoic Practical Reasoning"
2019
2018
American Philosophical Association
Pacific Division Meeting
San Diego, California
Thursday, March 29, 6-9pm
Chair: Clerk Shaw (University of Tennessee)
Georgia Mouroutsou (Western University, Canada)
"A New Perspective for Moral Progress Within Marcus Aurelius' Meditations:
The Transformation of the Experience of the Present Moment."
Vikram Kumar (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich)
"Carneades on Libertarian Free Will."
Alex Gillham (Purdue University)
"The Aristotelian Underpinnings of the Epicurean Telos:
Tranquility as a State of Virtuous Activity."
Carrie Swanson (University of Iowa)
"Sextus Makes a House Call: Medical Sophisms in PH II 229-256."
2017
Inaugural Session at the American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meeting
April 12, 6:00-8:00pm
The Westin Seattle
Chair: Emily Austin, Wake Forest University
Clerk Shaw (University of Tennessee)
"Epicurean Philosophy and Its Parts"
Kelly Arenson (Duquesne University)
"Epicurus on Joy as a Restorative Pleasure"
Marta Jimenez (Emory University)
"The Cynic Turn:
From the Genealogy of Customs to the
Genealogy of Desires"
