8th Biennial Conference of the

International Association for Presocratic Studies

Belo Horizonte, July 1st to 5th, 2024

Program
Monday, July 1st
Accreditation (Credenciamento): 8:30 - 10:00
Opening session: 10h00 - 10h45
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Eduardo Soares Neves Silva
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Deputy Dean of Postgraduate Studies
Richard McKirahan
Pomona College
President of the International Association for Presocratic Studies
Miriam Campolina Diniz Peixoto
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Chair IAPS 8

Session 1: 10h50 - 12h00

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Chair: Richard McKirahan
Pherecydes' winged oak and the vegetal cosmology of the Ancient Greeks.
Arnaud Macé, Université de Franche-Comté (France)
Meteorology and basic substances in Anaximander.
Ricardo Salles, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico)

Lunch: 12 - 14h00
Session 2: 14 - 15h45
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Chair: Gustavo Gomes
Thought Experiments and Counterintuitive Thinking Patterns in Western Greece.
Omar D. Álvarez Salas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico)
No matter? aēr and causal minimalism in early Greek thought.
Benjamin Folit-Weinberg, Ohio State University (USA)
Circular Motions and Cosmogonic Vortices.
Étienne Ménard, Université de Franche-Comté (France)

Session 3: 14:00 - 15h10

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 Chair: Celso Vieira
Beholding the Beauty of the New Philosophical Horizon: An Overview of the Acheloios-
Thales Connection and its Significance for a 21st - Century Philosophical Hermeneutic.
Nicholas J. Molinari, Salve Regina University (USA)
The word and the world: language and reality in Heraclitus of Ephesus.
Martim Silva, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil)

Pause: 15h45 - 16h30

Session 4: 16h30 - 18h15
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Chair: Omar Alvarez Sallas
Was Pythagoras Italic? Phytagoreanism and the ethnic superiority of "Italic
Philosophy".
Gabriele Cornelli, Universidade de Brasília (Brazil)
The contribution of Philolaus' concept of substance to Aristotle's theory of substance.
Ilan Moradi, Beijing Normal University (China)
Pythagorean Vestiges in Plato's Timaeus.
Erick D'Luca, Universidade de Brasilia (Brazil)

Session 5: 16h30 - 18h15

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Chair: Alexandre Costa
"Immortal Mortals - Mortals Immortals ...". A Short History and Some New
Testimonies of Heraclitus’ Fragment B62 DK.
Max Bergamo, University of Padua / Yale University (Italy/USA)
Two different propositions by Heraclitus about death: fragment 21 D and fragment 27 D.
Teodoro Rennó Assunção, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil)
The persistence of human-scale items in Heraclitus.
Celso Vieira, Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany)

Tuesday, July 2
Session 6: 9h30 - 11h15
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Chair: Martim Reyes Silva
Phusis and Logos in Heraclitus.
Luke Parker, Norwich University (USA)
Heraclitus' [Anti]logos and the Limits of Human Speech.
Sarah Feldman, University of Ottawa (Canada)

“Everything flows like a river”: a Heraclitean or Platonic creation?

André L. Braga da Silva, Universidade de São Paulo (Brasil)
 Session 7: 9h30 - 11h15
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Chair: Bruno Loureiro Conte
On the interdependence between contents and literary forms in Parmenides’ Poem.
Alexandre Costa, Universidade Federal Fluminense (Brazil)
Parmenidean Interfaces. The interaction between meter,
rhythm and textual criticism in Parmenides’ Poem.
Bernardo Berruecos Frank, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico)
διάκοσμος ἐοικώς πάντα? A new interpretation of Parm. 28 B 1, 7, 8 DK.
Marco Guerrieri, Università di Napoli "Federico II" (Italy)

Presentation new books: 11h15 - 12h

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Arnaud Macé, Les Éléates. Fragments des œuvres de Parménide, Zénon et Mélissos.
Traduits et présentés par Luc Brisson, Arnaud Macé et Jean-François Pradeau.
Coll. "Fragments. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2022.
Arnaud Macé, Philosophy of Science Information System: a participatory platform developed
by the CDBP (Centre de Documentation et de Bibliographie Philosophiques)
of the University of Franche-Comté
Bruno L Conte, A doxa no poema de Pârmênides.
Uma investigação a partir dos testemunhos antigos.
São Paulo: Loyola, 2023.
Richard McKirahan, Forthcoming: The Sophists.
Serie "Ancient Philosophies". Routledge, 2024.
Lunch: 12h00 - 14h00

Session 8: 14 - 15h45
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Chair: Bernardo Berruecos Frank
Necessity and the Second Way of Inquiry in Parmenides’ Cosmological Thinking.
Bruno Loureiro Conte, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (Brazil)
On the issue of reorganize Parmenides Poem: some remarks
about the necessity of not separate δόξαι from cosmology.
Bruno Fernandes Santos, Universidade Federal Fluminense (Brazil)
The mortal's journey and the embryonic ethical reflections in Parmenides' poem.
Viviane Veloso Pereira Rodegheri, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)

Session 9: 14 - 15h45
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Chair: Rogério Gimenes de Campos
Binary Oppositions in Greek Philosophy: Female and Male in Parmenides.
Matilde Berti, Durham University (UK)
Zeno's anti-Eleaticism.
 Luís Márcio Nogueira Fontes, Instituto Federal do Alagoas (Brasil)
The incorporeality of what-is in Melissus of Samos.
Daniel Mazza Matos, Universidade Federal do Ceará (Brazil)

Pause: 15:45 - 16h30

Session 10: 16h30 - 17h40
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Chair: Mathilde Brémond
Intentional and epistemic arguments in Gorgias’ On non being.
Marina Volf, Institute of Philosophy and Law of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Science
(Russia)
Is the trustworthiness of logos sufficient to lead the way to knowledge?
Daniela Brinati Furtado, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil)

Session 11: 16h30 - 17h40

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Chair: Simon Trépanier
Empedocles and the sacred trees: an essay to expand readings of fr. DK 31 B 140.
Ivanete Pereira, Universidade Federal do Amazonas (Brazil)
Mechanisms of Sense Perception and Knowledge in Empedocles.
Nazyheli Aguirre de la Luz, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico)

(Wednesday, July 3 : Day off)

Thursday, July 4
Session 12: 10h00 - 11h10
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Chair: Étienne Ménard
Anaxagoras and the Autonomy of Ethics.
Carey Seal, University of California (USA)
Diógenes de Apolonia: ἀνὴρ φυσικός / Diogenes of Apollonia: ἀνὴρ φυσικός.
Deyvis Deniz Machín, Universidad Central de Venezuela / Universidad de Barcelona
(Venezuela/Spain)
Archelaus' philosophy.
Rogério Gimenes de Campos, Universidade Federal da Integração Latino-Americana (Brasil)

Session 13: 9h30 - 11h15

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Chair: Silvio Marino
"I went to Athens and no one knew me'.
Gustavo Laet Gomes, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil)
Why is Democritus the "laughing philosopher"?
 Felipe Gall, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
The plurivocity and centrality of the notion of measure
in the framework of Democritus' ethical reflection.
Miriam Peixoto, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil)

Presentation new books: 11h15 - 12h

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Livio Rossetti, Ripensare i Presocratici. Da Talete (anzi da Omero) à Zenone.
Coll. "Filosofie". Sesto San Giovanni: Mimesis, 2023.
Nicholas Molinari, Acheloios, Thales, and the Origin of Philosophy: A response to the Neo
Marxians. Archaeopress, 2022.
Celso Vieira (org.). Forthcoming: Dossier: "Style Matters in Presocratic Philosophy",
Revista Archai, 2024.
Alexandre Costa; Miriam Peixoto; Bruno Conte (orgs.). Estudos pré-socráticos na América
Latina. São Paulo: Odysseus, 2024

Lunch: 12h00 - 14h00

Session 14: 14h00 - 15h10

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Chair: Teodoro Rennó Assunção
Dionysus, Demeter and the Homeric Heroes in Metrodorus’ Allegoresis.
Marco Antonio Santamaría, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain)
From Cosmos to Chaos: Unravelling Aeschylus' Oresteia and
Prometheus Bound through the Presocratic Lenses.
Fernanda M. Borges da Costa, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)

Session 15: 14h00 - 15h45

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Chair: Miriam Peixoto
The Presocratics’ Reception in Xenophon’s Memorabilia: Socrates’ Views on Cosmology.
Vitor Milione, Université de Montréal (Canada)
Notes on the Reception of Democritus in the Art of eloquence of Cicero
and Thomas Hobbes.
Patricia Nakayama, Universidade Federal da Integração Latino-Americana (Brazil)
How politically engaged were the pre-Socratic philosophers?
The cases of Pythagoras, Parmenides, and Zeno.
Rafael Moreno González, Universidad Católica del Perú / Universidad del Pacífico (Peru)

Pause: 15:45 - 16h30

Session 16: 16h30 - 18h15
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Chair: Marco Antonio Santamaria
 Dionysus in the Derveni Papyrus.
Alberto Bernabé, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain).
Heraclitus in Column IV of the Derveni papyrus: Three new suggestions.
Simon Trépanier, University of Edinburgh (UK)
Enigma and interpretation in Derveni Papyrus.
Michel Menezes da Costa, Instituto Federal da Bahia / Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
(Brasil)

Friday, July 5
Session 17: 10h00 - 11h10
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Chair: Luís Márcio Nogueira Fontes
Defending Gorgias, the Comedian.
Cara Rei Cummings, Morgan State University (USA)
Does Gorgias have a coherent theory of language?
Mathilde Brémond, Université Clermont-Auvergne (França)

Session 18: 10h00 - 11h10

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Chair: Silvio Marino
The reception of Empedocles in the Renaissance: Pico della Mirandola.
Teresa Rodriguez, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico)
Revisiting Bianchi.
Rafael César Pitt, Universidade Federal do Amapá (Brazil)

Lunch: 12h00 - 14h00

Session 19: 14h - 15h45
Chair: Arnaud Macé
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Humoral and atomistic theory on embryology in De genitura/De natura Pueri
and Democritus.
Silvio Marino, Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II” / Universidade de Brasília
(Italy/Brazil)
Certainly, a physician: a discussion about the authorship of De Arte.
Henrique Buldrini Barreto, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil)
The Presocratic roots of the Hippocratic concept of balanced mixtures.
Hynek Bartoš, Charles University (Czech Republic)

Closing Session: 16h00 - 17h00

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