Two early Stoic theories of cosmogony / Ricardo Salles -- Plotinus' account of demiurgic causation and its philosophical background / Riccardo Chiaradonna -- Creation and divine providence in Plotinus / Christopher Isaac Noble and Nathan M. Powers -- Waiting for Philoponus / Richard Sorabji -- Gregory of Nyssa on the creation of the world / Anna Marmodoro -- Simplicius on elements and causes in Greek philosophy : critical appraisal or philosophical synthesis? / Han Baltussen -- Divine and human freedom : Plotinus' new understanding of creative agency / Kevin Corrigan -- Consciousness and agency in Plotinus / D. M. Hutchinson -- Neoplatonists on the causes of vegetative life / James Wilberding -- Astrology and the will in Porphyry of Tyre / Aaron P. Johnson -- Proclus on the ethics of self-constitution / Michael Griffin -- Deficient causes : Augustine on creation and angels / Gillian Clark -- Willed causes and causal willing in Augustine / Mark Edwards.