Craft, Nature, and the Good Life: Stoics and Academics on Technê

2.05.–3.05.2025

Venue: Université de Genève, Colladon

 

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2.05.2025

9:30

Welcome

10.00-11.00

Antonio Ferro (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg)

Technê as a Socratic Heirloom: Aristotle and the Stoics

Chair: Samuel Meister (Université de Genève)


11.15-12.15

Simon Shogry (Brasenose College, Oxford)

What Kind of Art is the Stoic Art of Living?

Chair: Katerina Ierodiakonou (Université de Genève / National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)


13.45-14.45

Arianna Piazzalunga (KU Leuven)

Physis and Technê: An Insight in Stoic Teleology

Chair: Gábor Betegh (Christ's College, Cambridge)


15.00-16.00

Peter Osorio (University of Maryland, College Park)

Expertise and Morality in Carneades’ Division of Ends

Chair: Caterina Pellò (Université de Genève)


3.05.2025

10.00-11.00

Rachel Barney (University of Toronto)

‘Epictetus on the Power that Uses All the Others’

Chair: David Machek (Université catholique de Louvain)


11.30-12.30

Tue Søvsø (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg)

Stoics and Academics on Technê, Embeddedness, and Uncommitted Action

Chair: Jacob Klein (Colgate University)