Pre-Socratic Philosophy
Assignment Schedule, Fall 2002

SESSION
DATE
PRESENTERS
TOPIC
1 27 Aug   Orientation
2 3 Sep Schmelzer
Pederson
Thales & the Mythological Background
(Guthrie, v.1, 1―72; KRS, 1―99)
3 10 Sep Herrnstein
Zweig
Anaximander
4 17 Sep Anderson
Showler
Anaximenes
5 24 Sep Konieczka
Chelstrom
Xenophanes
6 1 Oct Tostenson
Nichols
Heraclitus
7 8 Oct Anderson
Thompson
Pythagoras & the Pythagoreans
8 15 Oct Bootz
Herrnstein
Alcmaeon & the Hippocratic Writings
9 22 Oct Pederson
Martin
Parmenides
10 29 Oct Showler
Yu
Zeno and Melissus
11 5 Nov Martin
Chelstrom
Empedocles
Prospecti of Final Papers Due
12 12 Nov Konieczka
Thompson
Anaxagoras
13 19 Nov Schmelzer
Bootz
The Atomists
14 26 Nov Tostenson
Yu
Protagoras
15 3 Dec Zweig Gorgias
Final Papers Due
16 10 Dec Nichols Sophists, Sophistic Issues & Socrates