ORGANIZED CONFERENCES AND LECTURES-SERIES
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Graduate Conference: Socratic Dialectic Applied. How to justify principles? With Benjamin Wilck, 11.2.2019, Humboldt University Berlin.
Workshop: Weisheit – Vollendung des Menschseins? 3. Workshop der AG „Philosophische Anthropologie in der Antike“ part of the Gesellschaft für Antike Philosophie (GANPH e.V.), with Dr. Viktoria Bachman and Dr. Heinemann Raul, 8.7.2018, Humboldt University Berlin.
International Conference: Philosophy in Its Beginnings? Conceptualization, Criticism and Justification of Philosophy in Antiquity, with Ronja Hildebrandt, 21.-23.7.2017, Humboldt University Berlin.
Graduate Conference: Warum Philosophie? Kritik und Rechtfertigung der Philosophie im Licht der Antike, mit Ronja Hildebrandt, 20.7.2017, Humboldt University Berlin
Lecture-series: What is Philosophy? In Antiquity and Today /Was ist Philosophie? In der Antike und Heute, u.a. mit Prof.Dr. Glenn W. Most, Prof.Dr. Christof Horn, PD Dr. Wilhelm Schmid, SS 2017, Humboldt University Berlin.
International Conference: Argumentation in Classical Antiquity: Dialectic, Rhetoric & Other Domains, with Dr. Joseph Bijelde and Dr. David Merry, 23.-25.7.2016, Humboldt University Berlin.
TALKS (SELECTION)
Invited Talks
Warum (noch) argumentieren? Burg Griebenstein University of Art and Design Halle. 5.12.2019
Plato’s Account of Rational Persuasion. University of Bergen (invited by Jens Kristian Larsen) 17.11.2018
Logos und Rationalität in Platon. Philosophisches Colloquium, Universität Bonn (invited by Christof Horn), Bonn 18.6.2018
Rational Persuasion in Plato’s Gorgias. University of Chicago. “Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Workshop” (invited by Agnes Callard) 25.10.2017
The link between argumentation and rationality in its Ancient Beginnings, University of Windsor, Colloquium of the Centre for Research in Reasoning, Argumentation and Rhetoric, (invited by Christopher Tindale) 8.3.2017
Reasoning and its role in Gorgias. University of Toronto, Colloquium of the Collaborative Program in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, (invited by Rachel Barney) 4.4.2016
Conference Contributions
Gibt es das Problem des freien Willens in der Antike? Über das Verständnis der moralischen Verantwortlichkeit bei den Rhetorikern und Sophisten. Platons Ideentheorie. IUC Dubrovnik, 16-20.9.2019
Das Verhältnis von Ideen und sokratischer Dialektik in den Frühdialogen. Platon-Bilder: Platons Ideentheorie. IUC Dubrovnik, 24. - 28. 9. 2018
Freidenker oder Antirationalisten? Logos und Rationalität bei den sogenannten Sophisten. GANPH Workshop „Weisheit – Vollendung des Menschseins?“, Berlin, 8.6.2018
Arguments First. Reasons Second. A Platonic and Isocratic Approach to Reasons, XXIV. Kongress der deutschen Gesellschaft für Philosophie, Berlin, 27.9.2017
Über die Rolle von Rationalität und Logos in der Auseinandersetzung zwischen Rhetorik und Philosophie, XXIV. Kongress der deutschen Gesellschaft für Philosophie, Berlin, 26.9.2017
On the Priority of Argumentation over Reasoning. Or how Plato and Isocrates almost Developed a Concept of Reason, 7th Humboldt-Princeton Graduate Conference in Philosophy, Humboldt University Berlin, 27.7.2017
Philosophy as expertise in logoi in Plato. Or what is the difference between rhetoric and dialectic? Conference “Philosophy in Its Beginnings? Conceptualization, criticism and justification of philosophy in antiquity”, Humboldt University Berlin, 21.7.2017
Is success in argumentation a rational value? On Isocrates’ and Plato’s justification of argumentation. Conference “Values in Argumentation – Values of Argumentation”, Nova Institute of Philosophy (IFILNOVA), Lisbon, 29.6.2017
Über die Rolle von Rationalität und Logos in der Auseinandersetzung zwischen Rhetorik und Philosophie bei Platon, Études Platoniciennes, 5th SEP international Workshop, ENS Paris, 8.6.2017
Gorgias and Plato on the Distinction Between Being Rational and Being Irrational, 34th annual joint meeting of The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy (SAGP) with The Society for the Study of Islamic Philosophy and Science (SSIPS), Fordham University, New York, 30.10.2016
Arguments and Reasons: λόγοs between Gorgias and Isocrates, an der Conference “Argumentation in Classical Antiquity: Dialectic, Rhetoric & Other Domains”, Humboldt University Berlin, 24.7.2016
Arguments first. Reasons second. An Isocratic approach to reasons, International Workshop on Knowledge, Reasoning, and Discourse (KRD) in San Sebastian, 17.12.2015
Isocrates’ conception of reasons, 1st Munich-Berlin graduate workshop, Humboldt University Berlin, 28.11. 2015
Immortality and Hope – In defence of Plato’s Phaedo, University of Hull, 21.5.2015
Comments
on Wenjin Liu’s “Two Types of Phantasia in Plato’s Sophist: Why Belief is often Misleading”, 7th Humboldt-Princeton Graduate Conference in Philosophy, Humboldt University Berlin, 28.7.2017
on Jamie Dow’s ‘Socrates’ Challenge: Why Dialogue is better than Speechmaking’ at Workshop “Between Philosophy and Rhetoric”, NYU, 14. 5. 2017
on Máté Herner’s ‘The harmony theory of soul in Plato’s Phaedo and its attribution’ by at the 3rd Graduate Workshop Berlin – Munich, Humboldt University Berlin, 27.1.2017
on Rachana Kamtekar's “Why ‘no-one does wrong willingly’ and ‘No-one is bad willingly’”, Humboldt University Berlin, 6.6.2015