Method in Ancient Philosophy

Monday 4th November  

Galton Lecture Theatre (Room 115, 1-19 Torrington Place, UCL, London WC1E 7HB)  

1.30 - 1.40: Welcome by Jenny Bryan (UCL)  

1.40-2.40: Dominic Bailey (Boulder, Colorado) 'Platonic Properties'
2.40-3.40: Response to Bailey by Fiona Leigh (UCL) and discussion time
Session chair: Tamsin De Waal (UCL)  

3.40-4.10: Tea and coffee  

4.10-5.10: Hugh Benson (Oklahoma) 'Dialectic in the Cave'
5.10-6.10: Response to Benson by David Lee (Oxford) and discussion time
Session chair: MM McCabe (KCL)  

6.30-8.30: Reception  (Seminar Room, First Floor, Department of Philosophy, UCL, 19 Gordon Square, London WC1H) ALL WELCOME

Tuesday 5th November

Galton Lecture Theatre (Room 115, 1-19 Torrington Place, UCL, London WC1E 7HB)  

10.30-11: Tea and coffee  

11-12: Joachim Aufderheide (KCL) 'Dreaming and skepticism in Plato'
12-1: Response to Aufderheide by David Sedley (Cambridge) and discussion time
Session chair: Anthony Price (Birkbeck)  

1-2.30 Lunch break  

2.30-3.30: Valentina Di Lascio (Paris) 'Sophistical vs merely apparent arguments. An analysis of Sophistical Refutations 8 and 10'
3.30-4.30: Response to Di Lascio by Paolo Crivelli (Geneva) and discussion time
Session chair: Raphael Woolf (KCL)  

Wednesday 6th November

Basement Lecture Theatre (Room B17, 1-19 Torrington Place, UCL, London WC1E 7HB)  

10.30-11: Tea and coffee  

11-12: Jamie Dow (Leeds) 'Socrates' challenge: why dialogue is better than speechmaking'
12-1: Response to Dow by Nicholas Denyer (Cambridge) and discussion time
Session chair: Shaul Tor (KCL)  

1-2.30: Lunch break  

2.30-3.30: Myrto Hatzimichali (Cambridge) 'Posidonius' "Aristotelising" method'
3.30-4.30: Response to Hatzimichali by Christopher Gill (Exeter) and discussion time
Session chair: Anne Sheppard (RHUL)

The UCL routefinder provides guidance for locating rooms in UCL (http://crf.casa.ucl.ac.uk/). Any queries should be directed to the convenor, Jenny Bryan, UCL Greek and Latin: [email protected]