CONTENT OF THE 1984-1985 ACADEMIC YEAR

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President Margaret Reesor.

SAGP/SSIPS 1984, Program in Honor of Joseph Owens.

• Allan Bäck, Kutztown University. “An Aristotelian View of Being.” Cf. Aristotle’s Theory of Predication. Brill 2000.
• Lawrence Jost, University of Cincinnati. “Is Agathon a pros hen equivocal in Aristotle’s Ethics?”
• Arthur Madigan, S.J. Boston College. “EN IX.8, Beyond Egoism and Altruism?” Published in Modern Schoolman 62 (1985) 1-20, revised version in John P. Anton & Anthony Preus, eds. 1991. Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy, Vol. IV: Aristotle’s Ethics. SUNY Press. 73-94.
• Mary Mulhern, Brookside Institute. “Some results for Aristotle’s Theory of Predication from recent work on his theory of deduction.”
• Frank Parker, “Can Virtue be Taught? Moral education in Socrates and Aristotle.”
• Robin Smith, Kansas State. “Modal propositions and Aristotle’s theory of contradictions.”
• Robert G. Turnbull, Ohio State. “Fr Owens on Nature Matter and Immateriality.” Published in Philosophical Inquiry 7 (3-4) (1985) 146-157.

With the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association, in New York City, December 28, 1984.

President, Margaret Reesor, Queen’s University.

Chair: A. Preus, Binghamton University

• Terence H. Irwin, Cornell, “Socrates the Epicurean?”
• Russell M. Dancy, Florida State Tallahassee, “Predication and Immanence: Anaxagoras, Plato, Eudoxus, and Aristotle.”

With the American Philological Association, December 1984, in Toronto

Chair: Margaret Reesor

• Leonard Woodbury, Toronto. “Parmenides on Naming by Mortal Men: fr B8.53-56.” Published in Ancient Philosophy 6 (1986) 1-13. See Greek Poetry and Philosophy: Studies in Honour of Leonard Woodbury. D. E. Gerber, ed. Scholar’s Press. 1984.
• Frank Lewis, Arizona, “Substances, Accidents, and Kinds: Some Remarks on Aristotle’s Theory of Predication.” 1985

Spring 85

Meeting with the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association in San Francisco, March 21, 1985:

• Edward Warren, San Diego State Univerity. “Plato’s Refutation of Thrasymachus” Published as “The Craft Argument: An Analogy?” in John P. Anton & Anthony Preus, eds. 1989. Essays in Ancient Greek   Philosophy, Vol. III: Plato, State University of New York Press, 101-116.
• Charles Young, “Aristotle on Temperance.” Published in The Philosophical Review 97 (1988) 521-542. Pacific 1985. Available online on JSTOR. Reprinted in John P. Anton & Anthony Preus, eds. 1991. Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy, Vol. IV: Aristotle’s Ethics. SUNY Press, 107-126.          

Meeting with the Western (Central) Division of the American Philosophical Association in Chicago, April 25, 1985:

Chair: A. Preus

• Mark McPherran, University of Texas at Arlington. “Plato’s Reply to the Worst Difficulty Argument of the Parmenides: Sophist 248-249d.” Published in Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 68.3 (1986), reprinted in John P. Anton & Anthony Preus, eds. 1989. Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy, Vol.III: Plato, State University of New York Press, 227- 246.
• Michael Morgan, Indiana University. “How does Plato solve the paradox of inquiry in the Meno?”Western 1985. John P. Anton & Anthony Preus, eds. 1989. Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy,Vol. III: Plato, State University of New York Press, 169-182.