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Richard D. Mohr is Retired Professor of Philosophy and of the Classics at the University of Illinois. He came to the University in 1978 after receiving a PhD from the University of Toronto. He is the author of The Platonic Cosmology (Brill 1985), which, in an expanded and updated version, has been reissued as God and Forms in Plato (Parmenides Publishing 2005). He is also the author of Gays/Justice (Columbia University Press 1988), Gay Ideas (Beacon 1992), A More Perfect Union (Beacon 1994), Pottery, Politics, Art: George Ohr and the Brothers Kirkpatrick (University of Illinois Press 2003), and The Long Arc of Justice (Columbia University Press 2005).

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Barbara M. Sattler is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. From 2005 to 2007, she taught in the Departments of Philosophy and the Classics at the University of Illinois. Her research focuses on Ancient Greek philosophy of science and metaphysics, especially on the Pre-socratic, Platonic and Aristotelian notions of time, space and continuity, and their implications for the measurability of processes.

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Ann Bergren is Professor of Classics at the University of California, Los Angeles. She holds a Masters of Architecture degree from Harvard University's School of Design. Her essays on architecture have appeared, among other places, in Assemblage, Architectural Record, and the Harvard Architectural Review. Her books are The Etymology and Usage of peirar [an ending] in Early Greek Poetry: A Study in the Interrelationship of Metrics, Linguistics, and Poetics (American Philological Association 1975) and Weaving Truth: Essays on Language and the Female in Greek Thought (The Center for Hellenic Studies 2008).

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	Gábor Betegh is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Central European University in Budapest. He earned his PhD at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. He is the author of The Derveni Papyrus: Cosmology, Theology, and Interpretation (Cambridge University Press 2004).
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Sean Carroll is Senior Research Associate in the Department of Physics at the California Institute of Technology. He has previously taught at M.I.T., the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the University of Chicago. He is a leader in interdisciplinary research in theoretical astrophysics and cosmology, including connections to particle physics, general relativity, and computational physics. He is a frequent contributor to Physical Review and Nature and is the cofounder of and a frequent contributor to the blog Cosmic Variance. His most recent publication is From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time (Dutton 2010).

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Sean Carroll on the arrow of time (Part 1) | Video on TED.com
WHY DOES THE UNIVERSE LOOK THE WAY IT DOES:
A Conversation With Sean Carroll

	Alan Code is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers. He has previously taught at the University of British Columbia, the University of Michigan, Ohio State University, and the University of California, Berkeley, where he served as department chair. He has two forthcoming books: The Philosophy of Aristotle (Oxford); Collected Papers on Aristotle's Metaphysics and Logic (Princeton).
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	Zina Giannopoulou is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of California, Irvine. She received her PhD from the Classics Department at the University of Illinois in 2002, with a dissertation on Plato's Theaetetus. In addition to ancient philosophy, she writes on epic, Greek tragedy, and the reception of classical antiquity in modern and contemporary prose literature.
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	Verity Harte is Professor of Philosophy and Classics at Yale University and Honorary Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy, King's College London, where she taught prior to joining Yale in 2006. She is the editor of the journal Phronesis and the author of Plato on Parts and Wholes: The Metaphysics of Structure (Oxford University Press 2002).
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	Thomas Kjeller Johansen is Fellow in Ancient Philosophy at Brasenose College, Oxford University. He previously taught at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Aristotle on the Sense-Organs (Cambridge University Press 1998) and Plato's Natural Philosophy: A Study of the Timaeus-Critias (Cambridge University Press 2004).
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Charles H. Kahn is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Anaximander and the Origins of Greek Cosmology (Columbia University Press 1960, Hackett 1994), The Verb 'Be ' in Ancient Greek (Reidel 1973, second edition Hackett 2002), The Art and Thought of Heraclitus: An Edition of the Fragments with Translation and Commentary (Cambridge University Press 1979), Plato and the Socratic Dialogue (Cambridge University Press 1996), and Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans: A Brief History (Hackett 2001).

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Anthony Leggett is John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor, Professor of Physics, and Professor in the Center for Advanced Study at the University of Illinois. His first degree was a BA in Greats at Balliol College, Oxford University. His principal research interests lie in the areas of condensed matter physics and the foundations of quantum mechanics. For his work in the theory of low-temperature physics, he won the 2003 Nobel Prize for Physics. He is the author of The Problems of Physics (Oxford University Press 1987, revised edition 2006).

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Anthony Long is Professor of Classics, Irving G. Stone Professor of Literature, and Affiliated Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. His books include Language and Thought in Sophocles (Athlone Press 1968), Hellenistic Philosophy: Stoics, Epicureans, Skeptics (Duckworth 1974, second edition, University of California Press 1986), The Hellenistic Philosophers. vols. 1 & 2 (with David Sedley, Cambridge University Press 1987), Stoic Studies (Cambridge University Press 1996), The Cambridge Companion to Early Greek Philosophy, editor (Cambridge University Press, 1999), Epictetus: A Stoic and Socratic Guide to Life (Oxford University Press 2002), and from Epicurus to Epictetus (Oxford University Press 2006).

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	Stephen Menn is Associate Professor of Philosophy at McGill University. He is the author of Plato on God as Nous (Southern Illinois University Press 1995; St. Augustine 's Press 2002) and Descartes and Augustine (Cambridge University Press 1998, revised, 2002). He is currently completing a book, The Aim and Argument of Aristotle's Metaphysics (Oxford University Press).
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	Kathryn A. Morgan is Professor of Classics at the University of California, Los Angeles. For 2007-2008, she is visiting at Princeton University. She is the author of Myth and Philosophy from the Pre-Socratics to Plato (Cambridge University Press 2000) and the editor of Popular Tyranny: Sovereignty and Its Discontents in Ancient Greece (University of Texas Press 2003).
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Alexander P. D. Mourelatos is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. He founded, and for many years directed, the Joint Classics-Philosophy Program in Ancient Philosophy at Texas. He is the author of The Route of Parmenides (Yale University Press 1970, Parmenides Publishing 2008) and the editor of The Pre-Socratics: A Collection of Critical Essays (Anchor 1974, Princeton University Press 1993).

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Ian Mueller is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Philosophy of Mathematics and Deductive Structure in Euclid's Elements (MIT Press 1981; reprinted by Dover 2006) and the translator of six volumes in the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series (Cornell University Press) covering Alexander of Aphrodisias on Prior Analytics 1.8-46 (1999 and 2006) and Simplicius on De Caelo 3 (2004 and 2005).

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Thomas M. Robinson is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Classics at the University of Toronto. His books include Plato's Psychology (University of Toronto Press 1970, second edition 1992), Contrasting Arguments: An Edition of the Dissoi Logoi (Arno Press 1979), Heraclitus' Fragments: A Text and Translation with a Commentary (University of Toronto Press 1987), and Cosmos as Art Object: Studies in Plato's Timaeus (Global Academic Publishing 2004). He and David Gallop are the general editors of the University of Toronto Press's book series on Pre-Socratic philosophy.

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	Allan Silverman is Professor of Philosophy at Ohio State University. He is the author of The Dialectic of Essence: A Study of Plato's Metaphysics (Princeton University Press 2003). His articles have appeared, among other places, in Social Philosophy and Policy, the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, and Classical Quarterly.
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Jon Solomon is Robert D. Novak Professor of Western Civilization & Culture and Professor of the Classics at the University of Illinois. He is the author of Ancient Roman Feasts and Recipes – Adapted for the Modern Kitchen (E. A. Seemann Publishing, Inc. 1977), The Ancient World in the Cinema (A. S. Barnes & Co., Inc. 1978), Ptolemy’s Harmonics: Translation and Commentary (Brill 1999), The Complete Three Stooges: The Official Filmography Three Stooges Companion (C3 Entertainment, Inc. 2001), and, with Robert C. Solomon, Up the University (Addison-Wessely 1993).

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Anthony Vidler is the Dean of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union, a position he has held since 2001. From 1965 to 1993, he was a member of Princeton University's School of Architecture, where he was appointed the William R. Kenan Jr. Chair of Architecture in 1990. In 1993, he took up a position as professor and Chair of the Department of Art History at the University of California, Los Angeles. His books include The Writing of the Walls: Architectural Theory in the Late Enlightenment (Princeton Architectural Press 1987), The Architectural Uncanny: Essays on the Modern Unhomely (MIT Press 1992), and Warped Space: Art, Architecture, and Anxiety in Modern Culture (MIT Press 2000).

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Matthias Vorwerk is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. Previously, he was a Lynen-Research Fellow of the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation at University College and Trinity College Dublin. He is the author of Plotins Schrift "Über den Geist, die Ideen und das Seiende" (Enneade V 9 [5]): Text, Translation, Commentary (Beiträge zur Altertumskunde 2001).

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	Donald Zeyl is Professor in and Chair of the Philosophy Department of the University of Rhode Island. He is the author of Plato Gorgias: Translation and Introduction (Hackett 1987) and Plato Timaeus: Translation and Introduction (Hackett 2000), and is the editor of the Encyclopedia of Classical Philosophy (Greenwood 1997).
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