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

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         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