Thursday, 16 November 2023, Ruhr University Bochum
09:00 – 09:10: Welcome & Introduction: Barbara Sattler (RUB)
09:10 – 10:20: Sophia Connell and Nathasja Roggo-van Luijn: The use of technological analogy in Empedocles’ explanation of mule infertility
10:20 – 11:30: M.M. McCabe: Common among Friends: Plato's use of Pronouns
Chair: Saloni de Souza (HHU Düsseldorf)
11:30 – 11:50: Coffee Break
11:50 – 13:00: Anna Pavani: 'Easy and Insignificant'? On the Epistemological Function of Small Paradeigmata in Plato’s Late Dialogues
Chair: Manlio Fossati (TU Dortmund)
13:00 – 14:30: Lunch Break
14:30 – 15:40: Philipp Steinkrüger: Aristotle's tupōi accounts as a tool to start inquiries
15:40 – 16:50: Philipp Brüllmann: The look at nature: A Cynic tool and its Stoic use
Chair: Celso Vieira (RUB)
16:50 – 17:20 Coffee Break
17:20 – 18:30: David Merry: Analogia and Exempla: Stoic Tools in the Conceptualization of Virtue
Chair: Jeongjoo Lee (RUB)
19:00 – 22:00: Conference Dinner
Friday, 17 November 2023, Technical University Dortmund
10:00 – 10:10: Welcome & Introduction: Ronja Hildebrandt (TU)
10:10 – 11:20: Gabriela Rossi: Aristotle's Surgical Use of Examples: a Two-edged Tool
11:20 – 11:50: Coffee Break
11:50 – 13:00: Colin King: Linguistic and Logical Tools in Aristotle’s Topics
Chair: Anna Pavani (RUB)
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch Break
14:30 – 15:40: Christian Vogel: Referenzen als Werkzeug der aristotelischen Wissensvermittlung. Zum Verhältnis von Zitat, Autorität und Argument in der Politik
15:40 – 16:50: Stephen Kidd: Theophrastus’ New Tool, Enargeia
Chair: Sean Coughlin (FLU AVCR Prague)
16:50 – 17:20: Coffee Break
17:20 – 18:30: Glenn Most Commentary
Chair: Barbara Sattler (RUB)