Dates:Â Monday and Tuesday, May 7 and 8, 2018
Sponsors: Â Edelstein Center, Bergman Center (both of the Hebrew University)
Program:
Monday, May 7th (At the Edelstein Center Seminar Room, Levy Building (324), Edmund Safra Campus, Givat Ram)
- 9:00 – 10:30:  Barbara Sattler (University of St. Andrews, Israel Institute for Advanced Studies), “Divisibility or Indivisibility: The notion of continuity from the Presocratics to Aristotleâ€
- 10:30 – 10:45: Coffee Break
- 10:45 – 12:15 Orna Harari (Tel Aviv University),  “Alexander of Aphrodisias on Contiguity, Continuity, and Changeâ€
- 12:15 – 2:00: Lunch Break
- 2:00 -3:30:  Carl Posy (The Hebrew University), “The Infinite, the Indefinite and the Continuous in Early Modern Thoughtâ€
- 3:30 – 3:45: Coffee Break
- 3:45 – 5:15:  Akihiro Kanamori (Boston University):  “Cantor and Continuity”
Tuesday, May 8th (Rabin Building, Mt. Scopus Campus. Room 2001)
- 9:00 – 10:30: David Charles McCarty, (Indiana University), “What is a Number? On Continuous Magnitude”
- 10:30 – 10:45: Coffee Break
- 10:45 – 12:15: Stewart Shapiro (Ohio State University, The Hebrew University): “Continuity, Completeness and Unityâ€