Books by Kelli Rudolph
This edited volume is a pioneering work aimed to open a new field of study. Sensory historians ha... more This edited volume is a pioneering work aimed to open a new field of study. Sensory historians have barely touched antiquity and classicists have barely touched taste. The multivalent relationships between the sense of taste, food and the act of eating are too complex to be considered from any single perspective. Consequently, this volume, the first introduction to taste in antiquity, covers the full range of disciplinary angles, including history, medicine, literature, philosophy and archaeology. In particular, these essays bring together material and literary remains in order to explore the functional, sensual and judgement-focused role taste plays within the cultural and intellectual milieu of ancient Greece and Rome. A study of taste leads us into territory involving ancient theories of perception, cognition and the human body. The values and meaning of flavours, food and eating are also revealed through cultural practices and habits which are accessible to us through the literary, but also, importantly, through the material record. It is in these contexts that the contributors examine the function, social values and metaphors that surround ancient tastes.
Articles & Chapters by Kelli Rudolph
The Classical Quarterly (New Series), 2012
Journal of Hellenic Studies 131: 67-83, 2011
Democritus’ theory of vision combines the notions of images (eidola) streaming from objects and a... more Democritus’ theory of vision combines the notions of images (eidola) streaming from objects and air imprints, which gives him the resources to account for the perception of the relative size and distance of objects, not just their characteristics. This perspectival explanation of the visual theory accommodates important but overlooked evidence from Vitruvius. By comparing Democritus’ theory with ancient developments in visual representation, my analysis provides a new approach to the evidence of atomist vision. I begin with the process of vision before turning to the Peripatetic objections, showing how a unified theory of vision takes into account all of the ancient testimony and provides possible atomist responses to the criticisms raised against it. I also identify the importance of vision via air imprints as an important metaphor for the conventionality of sensible qualities. Understanding these fundamental issues puts us in a better position to assess Democritus’ place in the development of ancient optics and of atomist approaches to sense perception.
Journal of Hellenic Studies 131, 2011
Conference Organisation by Kelli Rudolph
This international workshop explores approaches to sensory studies across disciplinary boundaries... more This international workshop explores approaches to sensory studies across disciplinary boundaries in the humanities and social sciences. Bringing together experts from classics, philosophy, sociology, archaeology, history, literature, architecture and the arts, we will examine the usefulness of existing sensory theories for developing innovative approaches to the multidisciplinary study of historical periods like Graeco-Roman antiquity, where our evidence-both material and literary-is fragmentary and disparate.
The Fact/Value Distinction: Contemporary and Classical Perspectives
16-17 January 2015, Universi... more The Fact/Value Distinction: Contemporary and Classical Perspectives
16-17 January 2015, University of Kent, Canterbury Campus
Organisers: Lubomira Radoilska and Kelli Rudolph
Overview: The distinction between facts and values has animated significant debates about the nature and scope of inquiry in contemporary philosophical and scientific debates. In particular, the fact-value distinction clarifies the ultimate ambitions of a theory by asking whether it is an explanatory or a normative project. At the same time, however, we must also address the extent to which explanatory and normative objectives should be conceived as mutually exclusive, as the initial question implies or, alternatively, as intimately and helpfully intertwined. Ancient approaches to the scope and nature of inquiry, although closely related to the concerns addressed in contemporary philosophy, conceive the relationship between facts and values in a distinctive way, thus, providing a fresh perspective on contemporary debates.
By employing complementary systematic and historical approaches to this central yet elusive issue, the conference offers a new framework for constructive dialogue and fruitful exploration of the fact-value distinction across disciplinary boundaries, bringing together experts from classics, philosophy, the history and philosophy of science and law. In so doing, the event will aim to stimulate critical discussion of and further inquiry into philosophical methodology and, in particular, the possible interactions between explanatory and normative aspects of theoretical reasoning.
The conference has received generous support from the Aristotelian Society, the Analysis Trust, the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, the Kent Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (KIASH) and the Centre for Reasoning at the University of Kent.
**Bursaries, covering 50% of the conference fees and accommodation costs, are available for postgraduate students and under-employed recent postgraduates. Contact Kelli Rudolph by 31 DECEMBER 2014 for details.**
Conference website and registration: http://ow.ly/Cr2Ak
Contact: Kelli Rudolph (k.c.rudolph@kent.ac.uk)
Talks by Kelli Rudolph
A three part video of a talk given at 'The Individual and the State: Lesson from Antiquity' confe... more A three part video of a talk given at 'The Individual and the State: Lesson from Antiquity' conference sponsored by the Hauenstein Center at Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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Books by Kelli Rudolph
Articles & Chapters by Kelli Rudolph
Conference Organisation by Kelli Rudolph
16-17 January 2015, University of Kent, Canterbury Campus
Organisers: Lubomira Radoilska and Kelli Rudolph
Overview: The distinction between facts and values has animated significant debates about the nature and scope of inquiry in contemporary philosophical and scientific debates. In particular, the fact-value distinction clarifies the ultimate ambitions of a theory by asking whether it is an explanatory or a normative project. At the same time, however, we must also address the extent to which explanatory and normative objectives should be conceived as mutually exclusive, as the initial question implies or, alternatively, as intimately and helpfully intertwined. Ancient approaches to the scope and nature of inquiry, although closely related to the concerns addressed in contemporary philosophy, conceive the relationship between facts and values in a distinctive way, thus, providing a fresh perspective on contemporary debates.
By employing complementary systematic and historical approaches to this central yet elusive issue, the conference offers a new framework for constructive dialogue and fruitful exploration of the fact-value distinction across disciplinary boundaries, bringing together experts from classics, philosophy, the history and philosophy of science and law. In so doing, the event will aim to stimulate critical discussion of and further inquiry into philosophical methodology and, in particular, the possible interactions between explanatory and normative aspects of theoretical reasoning.
The conference has received generous support from the Aristotelian Society, the Analysis Trust, the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, the Kent Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (KIASH) and the Centre for Reasoning at the University of Kent.
**Bursaries, covering 50% of the conference fees and accommodation costs, are available for postgraduate students and under-employed recent postgraduates. Contact Kelli Rudolph by 31 DECEMBER 2014 for details.**
Conference website and registration: http://ow.ly/Cr2Ak
Contact: Kelli Rudolph (k.c.rudolph@kent.ac.uk)
Talks by Kelli Rudolph
16-17 January 2015, University of Kent, Canterbury Campus
Organisers: Lubomira Radoilska and Kelli Rudolph
Overview: The distinction between facts and values has animated significant debates about the nature and scope of inquiry in contemporary philosophical and scientific debates. In particular, the fact-value distinction clarifies the ultimate ambitions of a theory by asking whether it is an explanatory or a normative project. At the same time, however, we must also address the extent to which explanatory and normative objectives should be conceived as mutually exclusive, as the initial question implies or, alternatively, as intimately and helpfully intertwined. Ancient approaches to the scope and nature of inquiry, although closely related to the concerns addressed in contemporary philosophy, conceive the relationship between facts and values in a distinctive way, thus, providing a fresh perspective on contemporary debates.
By employing complementary systematic and historical approaches to this central yet elusive issue, the conference offers a new framework for constructive dialogue and fruitful exploration of the fact-value distinction across disciplinary boundaries, bringing together experts from classics, philosophy, the history and philosophy of science and law. In so doing, the event will aim to stimulate critical discussion of and further inquiry into philosophical methodology and, in particular, the possible interactions between explanatory and normative aspects of theoretical reasoning.
The conference has received generous support from the Aristotelian Society, the Analysis Trust, the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, the Kent Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (KIASH) and the Centre for Reasoning at the University of Kent.
**Bursaries, covering 50% of the conference fees and accommodation costs, are available for postgraduate students and under-employed recent postgraduates. Contact Kelli Rudolph by 31 DECEMBER 2014 for details.**
Conference website and registration: http://ow.ly/Cr2Ak
Contact: Kelli Rudolph (k.c.rudolph@kent.ac.uk)