KYOTO - CAMBRIDGE International Symposium
Integrating the Humanities: the Roles of Classics and Philosophy
Monday 25 September, 2006
Faculty of Classics, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge
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KYOTO - CAMBRIDGE International Symposium
Integrating the Humanities: the Roles of Classics and Philosophy
Monday 25 September, 2006
Faculty of Classics, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge


Program

REGISTRATION (9:00~)

Opening Address (9:30~)

Eisaku Kihira (COE Program Director, Kyoto University)
Pat Easterling (The University of Cambridge)
Hugh Mellor (The University of Cambridge)

Introduction (9:50~)

Kunitake Ito (Kyoto University)

Morning Session (10:00~) click to see details - TEA (11:00~11:20)

Chair: Kunitake Ito

Speakers:
David Sedley (The University of Cambridge): Hesiod's Theogony and Plato's Timaeus
Shinsuke Kawazoe (Kyoto University): The Classical Traditions in Medieval Scholastic Philosophy
Elizabeth Craik (The University of St. Andrews & Kyoto University): Classical Studies in Britain and Japan

LUNCH TIME (12:25~13:45)

Afternoon Session (divided into Philosophy and Classics Session) (13:45~) - TEA (15:30~15:50)

Classics Session Theme: The Role of Classics as a Discipline of Integration click to see details

Sub-section 1: Classical Studies: Continuity and Change
Chair: Elizabeth Craik

Speakers:
Hiroyuki Takahashi (Kyoto University): Classical Tradition: a continuum from here to eternity
Richard Hunter (The University of Cambridge): Creating the Classical Tradition
Atsuhiko Hirota (Kyoto University): Othello and Shakespeare's Rewritings of the Aeneid
Sub-section 2: Role and Possibility of Ancient History and Classical Archaeology
Chair: Fergus Millar (The University of Oxford)

Speakers:
Robin Osborne (The University of Cambridge): The Role and Possibility of Ancient History in Britain
Takashi Minamikawa (Kyoto University): Ancient History in Japan: Past, Present and Future
Satoshi Koyama (Kyoto University): Classical Language as a Medium of Cultural Communication in Early Modern Europe: Latin in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 16-18th Centuries

Philosophy Session click to see details

Sub-section 1; Ramsey on Decision Theory and Universals
Chair: Kunitake Ito

Speakers:
Hugh Mellor (The University of Cambridge): Objective Decision Theory
Nils-Eric Sahlin (Lund University): Ramsey, Knowledge and Mechanisms
Sub-section 2; Holism and Realism: Mind the Gap between Duhem and Quine
Chair: Yasuo Deguchi (Kyoto University)

Speakers:
Michio Kobayashi (Kyoto University): Holism and Realism -Mind the Gap between Duhem and Quine
Donald Gillies (University College London): Comments on Kobayashi
Sub-section 3; Self and Mind: if Ancient Greeks Had Attended Today's Debates
Chair: Terumasa Ohkusa (Kyoto University & The University of Cambridge)

Speakers:
Christopher Gill (The University of Exeter): Galen and the Stoics: Psychology and Neuroscience
Masashi Nakahata (Kyoto University): Intentional Inexistence: An Ambiguous Heritage from Aristotle

RECEPTION Museum of Classical Archaeology (17:40~18:30)

The 21st Century COE Program: Towards a Center of Excellence for the Study of Humanities in the Age of Globalization

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