Argumentation in Classical Antiquity: dialectic, rhetoric, & other domains

Thursday

10:00-10:15

Opening remarks by David Merry

10:15-11:30

Stephen White (UT Austin)

Truth Attending Persuasion

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)

Socratic Exhortation

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