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However, various thinkers who are included in Diels’s handbook, such as Alcmaeon, Parmenides, Hippo, Menestor, Philolaus, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, Democritus, and Diogenes of Apollonia, are also interested in the study of human beings, animals, and plants. A survey of the extant sources shows that the formation and development of living beings, their biological functions, the relationship between mind and body, the anatomy and constitution of the body, the aetiology of health, disease and old age, and the process of sex differentiation are issues of primary importance in the treatises <em>Peri physeos</em>. Conversely, several medical theorists, such as the authors of <em>On regimen</em>, <em>On the nature of man</em>, <em>On ancient medicine</em>, <em>On flesh</em>, and <em>On sevens</em> not only deal with the same issues and try to understand them in relation to the large-scale processes, but also are concerned with methodological and doctrinal developments in “natural philosophy”, thus rejecting, modifying, and integrating philosophical ideas and concepts into their systems. The aim of this workshop is to reconsider the relevant textual evidence, which is often neglected in Presocratic scholarship.</p> <p>The workshop is free to attend, but registration is required for organisational purposes and in order to gain access to the pre-circulated material. For registration and queries, please do not hesitate to contact the workshop organiser, Stavros Kouloumentas.</p> <p><strong>Venue</strong><br /> The workshop will take place at the Humboldt University in Berlin (Room 2103, Hauptgebäude), which is located in the city centre (Unter den Linden 6).</p> <table class="child-events"> <h2 class='event-program'>Program</h2><tr class='event-child-event-date-row'><td></td><td><div class='event-child-event-date'>9.1.2014</div></td></tr><tr><td><div class='event-child-event-time'>09:30 - 10:00</div></td><td><div class='event-child-event-title'> Welcome address </div><div class='event-child-event-persons'><div class='event-speaker-div'><span class='event-speaker'>Stavros Kouloumentas</span> </div><div class='event-speaker-div'><span class='event-speaker'>Philip van der Eijk</span> </div></div></td></tr><tr><td><div class='event-child-event-time'>10:00 - 11:00</div></td><td><div class='event-child-event-title'> The Matter of Mind for the Presocratics</div><div class='event-child-event-persons'><div class='event-speaker-div'><span class='event-speaker'>Maria Michela Sassi</span> </div></div></td></tr><tr><td><div class='event-child-event-time'>11:30 - 12:30</div></td><td><div class='event-child-event-title'> Aristotle's Criticism of Pangenetic Theories: A Fresh Start?</div><div class='event-child-event-persons'><div class='event-speaker-div'><span class='event-speaker'>Claire Louguet</span> </div></div></td></tr><tr><td><div class='event-child-event-time'>15:00 - 16:00</div></td><td><div class='event-child-event-title'> Alcmaeon on Health and Disease</div><div class='event-child-event-persons'><div class='event-speaker-div'><span class='event-speaker'>Stavros Kouloumentas</span> </div></div></td></tr><tr><td><div class='event-child-event-time'>16:30 - 17:30</div></td><td><div class='event-child-event-title'> In Defence of a "Worthless" Philosopher: Hippo of Croton</div><div class='event-child-event-persons'><div class='event-speaker-div'><span class='event-speaker'>Daniela Manetti</span> </div></div></td></tr><tr class='event-child-event-date-row'><td></td><td><div class='event-child-event-date'>10.1.2014</div></td></tr><tr><td><div class='event-child-event-time'>10:00 - 11:00</div></td><td><div class='event-child-event-title'> Hippocrates On Flesh</div><div class='event-child-event-persons'><div class='event-speaker-div'><span class='event-speaker'>Elizabeth Craik</span> </div></div></td></tr><tr><td><div class='event-child-event-time'>11:30 - 12:30</div></td><td><div class='event-child-event-title'> The Concept of Pneuma in On Regimen</div><div class='event-child-event-persons'><div class='event-speaker-div'><span class='event-speaker'>Hynek Bartoš</span> </div></div></td></tr><tr><td><div class='event-child-event-time'>15:00 - 16:00</div></td><td><div class='event-child-event-title'> Empedoclean Superorganisms</div><div class='event-child-event-persons'><div class='event-speaker-div'><span class='event-speaker'>David Sedley</span> </div></div></td></tr><tr><td><div class='event-child-event-time'>16:30 - 17:30</div></td><td><div class='event-child-event-title'> The Pythagorean Taboo on Beans: Between Religion and Dietetics, Cosmology and Magic-Chemical Experimentation</div><div class='event-child-event-persons'><div class='event-speaker-div'><span class='event-speaker'>Constantinos Macris</span> </div></div></td></tr><tr class='event-child-event-date-row'><td></td><td><div class='event-child-event-date'>11.1.2014</div></td></tr><tr><td><div class='event-child-event-time'>09:30 - 10:30</div></td><td><div class='event-child-event-title'> Anaxagoras on Nutrition</div><div class='event-child-event-persons'><div class='event-speaker-div'><span class='event-speaker'>David Sider</span> </div></div></td></tr><tr><td><div class='event-child-event-time'>10:45 - 11:45</div></td><td><div class='event-child-event-title'> Life, Birth and Death in the Physiology of Democritus</div><div class='event-child-event-persons'><div class='event-speaker-div'><span class='event-speaker'>Miriam Peixoto</span> </div></div></td></tr><tr><td><div class='event-child-event-time'>12:00 - 13:00</div></td><td><div class='event-child-event-title'> Outside the Hippocratic Corpus: Losers and Winners in early Greek Science</div><div class='event-child-event-persons'><div class='event-speaker-div'><span class='event-speaker'>Lorenzo Perilli</span> </div></div></td></tr> </table></article> <aside id="conent-aside"> <h2>When</h2> <span class='date-from multiple-days'><span class='dat-day'>9.</span><span class='dat-month'>1.</span><span class='dat-yar'>2014</span></span> - 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