SYMPOSIUM MEGARENSE
The
Megarics.
Eleatism and the History of Ancient Greek Rationalism
In the Classical and Early Hellenistic Period
August 20-27, 2005
Loutraki
PROGRAMME OF SESSIONS
Monday, 22 August
09.30 – 11.30 Harvey Yunis
Rhetoric
and Dialectic in the Phaedrus.
11.30 – 12.00 Coffee Break
12.00 – 14.00 Constance Meinwald
Reason v. Literature in
Plato’s “Republic”.
14.00 – 15.00 Light Lunch
20.30 Dinner
Tuesday,
23 August
09.30 – 11.30 Stephen White
Plato
and Euclides: The Road from Megara to Athens.
11.30 – 12.00 Coffee Break
12.00 – 14.00 Michel Narcy
Platonic Megarians: Sophists or/and
Socratics?
14.00 – 15.00 Light Lunch
15.00 – 17.00 Debate
Logical
Paradoxes: Sophisms or Intellectual Tangles.
21.30 Dinner
Wednesday,
24 August
09.30 – 11.30 Apostolos Pierris
The
Logic of Atomism: Material and Formal Monadology in Classical Greek Philosophy.
11.30 – 12.00 Coffee Break
12.00 – 14.00 Arnold Hermann
Parmenides’ Methodology: The Unity of
Formula.
14.00 – 15.00 Light Lunch.
18.00 – 20.00 Debate
The History of Eleatism: Parmenides, Zeno,
Melissus.
20.30 Dinner
Thursday, 25 August
09.30 – 11.30 Hermann Weidemann
Aristotle, the Megarics and Diodorus Cronus
on the Notion of Possibility.
11.30 – 12.00 Coffee Break
.
12.00 – 14.00 Nick Denyer
Diodorus Cronus on Modality and the Master
Argument..
14.00 – 15.00 Light Lunch
15.00 – 17.00 Gerhard Seel
The “Aporia” of the “Master Argument” and of
its Reconstruction.
17.00 – 17.30 Coffee Break
17.30 – 19.30 Debate
Modalities in Classical Philosophy: Potentiality, Actuality,
Necessity.
20.30 Dinner
Friday, 26 August
09.30 – 11.30 Charles Brittain
Archesilaus
and the Megarians.
11.30 – 12.00 Coffee Break
12.00 – 14.00 Tiziano Dorandi
The Megarians in the Tradition of the
Herculaneum Papyri.
14.00 – 15.00 Light Lunch
15.00 – 17.00 Debate
Pure Reason and the Genesis of Scepticism.
20.00 Dinner
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