Argumentation in Classical Antiquity: dialectic, rhetoric, & other domains
Ralph Hedley, Argument from Opposite Premises
Thursday 23rd
- Saturday 25th
June 2016
Topoi Haus Mitte
Hannoversche Str. 6
Room 1.03
All are welcome
Organized by:
Christopher Roser
David Merry
Joseph Bjelde
Contact:
classicalargument{α}gmail.com
Thursday
10:00-10:15
Opening remarks by David Merry
10:15-11:30
Stephen White (UT Austin)
11:35-12:50
Carrie Swanson (University of Iowa)
Socrates' Iolaus and the Resolution of Fallacy in Plato's Euthydemus
14:00-15:15
David Crane (Grand Valley State University)
βραχυλογία: Sophistic, Platonic, Aristotelian
15:20-16:25
Jurgen Gatt (University College London)
The Role of Testimonial Evidence in Antiphon and Gorgias
16:40-17:55
Christopher Roser (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)
Arguments and Reasons: λόγοs between Gorgias and Isocrates
18-19:15
Wolfgang Mann (Columbia University)
Gorgias and the Weakness of λόγοs
Friday
10:00-11:15
Jacob Stump (University of Toronto)
11:20-12:35
Holly Moore (Luther College)
Ethical Function of Argument by Example in Plato
12:45-14:00
Lisa Indraccolo (University of Zurich)
Argumentation and Persuasion in Classical Chinese Literature
15:00-16:15
Joseph Bjelde (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)
Endoxa and Epistemology in Aristotle
16:30-17:45
Colin King (Providence College)
Argumentation from Acceptable Premises in Fifth Century Ethics
18:00-19:15
Douglas Walton (University of Windsor)
Aristotelian Dialectic and Formal Dialogue Systems for Argumentation
Saturday
10:00-11:15
Andrew Aberdein (Florida Institute of Technology)
Was Aristotle a Virtue Argumentation Theorist?
11:20-12:35
Jakob Leth Fink (University of Gothenburg)
Evaluation and Truth in Topics 8.11
12:45-2:00
Benoît Castelnérac (Université de Sherbrooke)
The troubles of hosting a debate: Callicles’ anger and Socrates’ lack of manners